![[projects/pantry build log/Index]] # Goodbye shelves, hello noodles Planning was pretty minimal to be honest, it was basically "I want a cabinet with drawer for garbage and some shelves that allows me to see everything". The previous owners loved to cut corners when painting, not that I can blame them, I despise it, way too tedious.  But, even though I despise it, I won't be cutting corners with painting. You can see my marking in this photo for where shelves will be going, not that I actually used them. I totally didn't change my mind, changing the locations, shape and how these shelves will be mounted many times. Nope. For sure didn't. /s  So now, here are the thoughts for planning — originally I was to add shelves starting 10' above 30' from the ground, with two full wrap around shelf and a small shelf at the very top. At 30' I would add a full length counter and then later, follow up with some drawers and storage under the counter. The main goal of the storage area would be to have a pull-out garbage and recycling can. Sorta like what you see in IKEA, for example  At first, I thought I would buy the shelves, I even found some nice overpriced [finished boards on esty](https://www.etsy.com/listing/1049611062/finished-wood-slab-only-stained?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=finished+wood+board+slab&ref=sr_gallery-1-4&frs=1&sts=1&organic_search_click=1&variation0=2180615553&variation1=2156100058)! But, I decided that, like all my projects, I wasn't doing enough. Soooo, I figured I would build it all myself, I mean, how hard can it be? Well, turns out the answer to that questions is usually, “how high are your expectations”. Unfortunately, I suffer from a touch of perfectionism, that's until my motivation caves out at least and whatever I was working on is left in a state. So like all of my good plans, this has absolutely no details. How am I going to build the shelves? Dunno. Do I need to apply as finish, if so what kind? What material will I use? ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ How will I build these cabinets? Well, guess I need a saw. Some random measurements I thought of to figure out how high shelves and cabinets should be. ``` 46inch in space height for shelves -> 15" Cereal -> 8" Cans -> 20" Appliances -> 3' Garbage each shelf needs to be 46" width 16" deep or smaller To get - 1 x 2 pieces of wood (bracket: 6' + 9' + 8') * 17 = 391 / 12 = 32.5ft ``` #### Milestone 1 - Two full length wrap around shelves - One small top shelf - Full pantry length counter top #### Milestone 2 - Garbage pull out box and face built - Storage drawers of some dimensions, boxes and faces built #### Milestone 3 - Drawer faces attached to drawer boxes - Cabinet in the house - Trim Thankfully, one of these questions was partially answered, I had an old butcher block that I used for a computer table from IKEA for a while, this table-top being larger than the pantry, perfect! I now have the counter top! For all other material for the shelves, well, given my previous experience with Home Depot's wood selection and pricing, I had planned to 100% avoid for anything that's non construction grade supplies. Seriously, if it's not a 2x4 then I doubt it'll be straight, and even check every piece. Eventually, with enough searching I found [Building Material Resources. Inc.](https://www.materialforless.com/) despite their insanely uninspiring and easy to forget name, they had a decent enough selection of lumber, and most (foreshadowing…) of it was straight! Great! Oh, also lots of the boards, like the once below had small cracks running through parts, this wasn't going be a huge issue as I was planning on turning these into trim, meaning I could cut around these part. Douglas fir also loves to split as it's a hard wood, so not entirely surprising, just need to be careful.  What I found to be perfect for these shelves was some Douglas Fir boards, they sold some 10"x12' boards that they could cut to 10"x6' for me, that way they could actually fit in my car. Excellent. Next up, [[2. Shelves|Shelves!]]