Mudroom Remodel

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  • The mud room / laundry room will soon have lockers and cubbies in place of the laundry machines.
  • Pullin n pluggin them 6" can lights
  • Moving and rewiring these took way longer than it should've. Blown in insulation is a pain in the ass.
  • It's been a while since I've worked on anything with this dude!
  • New doors and casing goin up
  • These old lockers have been sitting in the garage for a year and a half... bout ready to turn them into built-ins
  • Grimy old lockers ready for their next incarnation
  • Shaving the width down to fit into the mudroom alcove
  • Shaving down the width
  • Ripping down popular to build cubbies above and below the antique lockers
  • Proof of concept/dry-fitting the shoe storage
  • Plywood for the cubbies all cut out and sanded
  • Facing the panels with 1" strips of poplar to match the 1" facing on the cabinet doors.
  • Adding shelf pins to make the bottom shelves adjustable to accommodate various sizes of boots, etc
  • The Kreg shelf pin jig is really nice
  • Shelf pin holes drilled
  • Starting to assemble the bottom
  • Bottom coming together
  • The bottom cubbies
  • Primin...
  • Pulling up the old, nasty tile.
  • One more dry-fit to mark and drill dowel holes to keep the dividers in place
  • Bottom pieces painted up
  • Removing the corner bead to slide the antique lockers in... the fit was that tight.
  • Starting to slide the antique lockers in to the alcove
  • Trying to angle the lockers up into place was pretty tricky
  • Starting to angle the lockers up
  • Lockers: in!
  • I used fulcrums and jack stands to raise the lockers up for the shoe cubbies to slide underneath
  • Lockers lifted
  • Feelin pretty good about getting these into place
  • Shoe cubbies going in
  • Lockers set back down onto the shoe cubbies
  • Routing out dados for the shelves on the top cubbies
  • Top cubbies coming together
  • Clamps on clamps
  • Facing everything out with solid poplar
  • Top faced out
  • Top pieces all primed up
  • Top pieces all painted
  • The top was super heavy and a very tight fit, so I made some little steps that Kari and I could use to lift, set, adjust grips and repeat.
  • Got the top cubbies in place!
  • Making one last adjustment on the final piece cause I didn't get the dado quite deep enough to slide in
  • Slidin this last piece in felt good
  • Top cubbies in
  • Trim mounted to the top
  • Next I had to repair my first corner bead.
  • Muddin
  • The locker doors were designed to be opened with antique keys, but I wanted handles that matched our kitchen cabinets.
  • Hand carving out the mortises
  • Scoring the mortises for chiseling
  • Handle mortise cut
  • This was my first time trying to mortise by hand, so they weren't exactly perfect, but a little putty and paint will clean em up.
  • Scope creep. Let's just get rid of all of this tile
  • Scraping up all of the old glue was "fun"
  • Glue: scraped
  • I used 1/8" thick ditra mat for underlayment because I had height constraints with the steel door and wanted to match the height of the 1/2" wood flooring.
  • She doesn't help out with my projects a whole lot. But I like when she does
  • Layin this floor tile
  • Tiling around the shoe cubbies and closet was a pain in the ass, but I really lucked out on how the tile size worked out with this room. It was almost exactly 6 tiles wide by 4 tiles deep... With a register vent perfectly placed at a seam.
  • Tiles set!
  • I always mask before caulking because I am sloppy and like clean lines. It's tedious, but the end result is much better.
  • The lockers and new floor
  • The lockers and new floor
  • The new floor
  • The new floor