Alright, this post is admittedly boring. You can tell by the title, right? Actually, I believe they are called a “false front”, but this is the tale of the board between the sink cabinets and the counter top.
With all new squared edges of the shaker style doors, we couldn’t leave the fill board above the sink cabinets with a bevel. Since all the other doors were poplar I bought poplar board and ripped / cut it to the size of the old one pictured above (RIP).
But how would I secure it? I didn’t want nail holes in the front that we would have to patch and I was afraid to go from the inside in fear that would come out through the front. Not to mention there is only about 1/4″ of inside diameter around the board.
I thought the best solution would be if there was some way to clip it on so I had more control than I would with a nail gun.
I dove down the series of tubes that make up the internets and found things like these, in different forms. The problem then was, how long will it take to get them and when they arrive, will they work in our situation?
From all the work we were doing, I had all kinds of scraps of wood outside. So I measured the thickness of our cabinets and happened to have scraps of 1″ (3/4″) wood from who knows what. I can’t remember what I used that wood for now, but I had it! Heck, it may have been the wood I ripped off the very board this tale is about!!!
So basically I screwed blocks of wood to that (carefully measured to snugly fit right in the opening of course), drilled out holes in the other blocks that would attach to those blocks, slightly bigger than the screw so they could move back and forth, and voila- a new false front.
It looks like an absolute train wreck, but it worked perfect, we didn’t have to spend more money, and no one will see it except a plumber.
Although this entire kitchen project caused me a lot of stress and kept my sleep to a minimum, I did enjoy the times I had to be creative to solve a problem.
