Our Awesome Homemade Filing Cabinet

So when we left most of our wood furniture in pittsburgh the plan was to make their replacements ourselves. We both really like working with wood, after sanding and refinishing over 2400 sq ft of hard wood floors in our houses in pittsburgh ourselves we were introduced into the world of stain and polyeurathane, and fell in love with poly. Its so fun to make something shiny and glossy feeling. We would sit and lay on our newly finished floors and just admire them. So we decided it would be really fun to get into wood working and make our own furniture. When we went to go buy a chest of drawers we were even more convinced...."its SO expensive....we could make it look better than that WAY cheaper".

So our first project was our new Filing Cabinet. ITs SO COOL! This was our old one;

Right before we celebrated throwing it in the dumpster. I must give it some credit, it has done amazingly well for the last 4 years, but when we moved the drawers broke and so it has been sitting just like this in our bedroom with the file drawers on the ground.....much to blobs excitement, and moms dimsay. So we finally got motivated enough when Kyren started figuring out how much fun it was to pull ALL the files out as fast as he could. He is really cute when he does it, he throws them behind his back as fast as he can.

So without further ado, this is our NEW filing cabinet:

These are the cooolest thing ever, we got a new toy called the Kreg Jig (its a tool) and it makes perfectly deep angled holes to which you then put screws in so that you CANT SEE ANY MARKS on the OUTSIDE, isnt that awesome? So no screws or nails show at all.

We bought the brackets from Ikea, since all their stuff comes in parts to assemble you can buy just the hardware if you want. And their really nice they have a magnetic hold and release, so it sucks it in tighter when you close and they roll really nice.

This is the after staining process, we stained it a red mahagony, our fav color, and then applied polly, which before the last coat you have to sand it so it is very smooth with no bumps.

Jordan doing some sanding before the poly

TA DA here is our finished product.

Here is our filing cabinet from the side, all finished



Here is the bottom drawer, it all works great and now we are soooo organized. It has plenty of room for everything, all my scrapbooking/pics and room to spare.

top drawer

This is the amazing trim job that I picked out and created. It is actually two peices of trim put together and then sealed to the drawer front, but you cant tell you would think it came as one peice. AND you should know... that Jordan cut these angles with a hack saw! with out a miter box, they came out perfect!

So there it is in our bedroom next to my side of the bed, it acts as my nightstand for now.

This is Kyren asleep in his crib, we have discovered that he has really taken a liking to his frog pillow, its currently upside down, and its about as big as he is. We came in at 9 in the morning wondering if he was still alive cuz he always wakes up around 7 and he was still dead asleep, so much that he didnt even wake up after I took this picture.