Craft Room Project: Finalizing Cabinet Layouts

The next couple of days are going to be full of this. My brain is going to be screaming by the time I’m done with all the math. Hopefully, I don’t botch it too much.

I do expect this to take several days because every time I work on a new area, I realize I did something wrong on a previous area I thought I’d finished so I have to go back and fix things.

Part of the problem is that I’m using my kitchen cabinets as a template, but my craft room space is just enough different, I have to make some adjustments that keep tripping me up. A big difference is my counter height. I’m more table height in my craft room than a standard kitchen counter, which is a few inches taller, giving me even more math.

Have I mentioned that math and I aren’t friends? My brain simply refuses to handle the really basic stuff even though I can blow through more complicated equations. It is ALWAYS the little, easy things that my brain stutters on.

The other part is trying to work these plans out for the full 3 dimensional layout, which in some cases, is really hard to try and pull off on 2 dimensional graph paper. The worst are the two places I have corner designs that wrap across two walls. Those plans are going to be a blast to figure out. There is a reason they are on the bottom of my stack.

Working on this has also brought to my attention that the order I’d planned on doing things is probably going to need to be switched up a little bit. I have a few places where cabinets and/or shelves attach at the counter top. That means my counters need to be finished before I can install those pieces. Which in turn means I need to get my stain figured out sooner rather than later.

It’s all the various different interlocking pieces that are tripping me up the most. It’s like putting together a 3D puzzle. Except I have to actually design all the puzzle pieces before I can start putting them together and all I have to work from is a flat image of what it is supposed to look like when it is done.

And this is just the design stage. I then have to take ALL those pieces and try to put together a supply list that gives me a total amount of each separate piece for every single shelf, cabinet, and door, all in one lump.

I can feel my brain screaming already.