Shelves turning into cup board

In entry 120 there was a picture of the shelves we had built in the living area. Well, now they have turned into a little cup board after putting doors on them. This was the plan all along, but it is good to get it done, not at least because we could then move a lot of stuff out of the pantry and into their proper place in the living room.

In order to fit in with the kitchen, we again used structural ply to make the doors. They are all cut out of one sheet, so we managed to keep the grain lines going through the doors. Should we get sick of the ply look, we can always paint them later. We haven't really decided yet what to do with handles, but that might happen at some stage. For the moment we are managing quite fine without.

Some of the doors open

And finally a close up of one of them. We have used the same hinges as in all our other cup boards. The only difference here is that they are at a 45 degree angle. This means that you cannot put on a soft closing mechanism on the actual hinge itself, rather it has to be a separate unit - then one in the middle.

So, with the cup board in place in the living room, we then moved all our things out of the pantry, which now looks a lot tidier than it used to:

Note that we have now also unpacked all our preserving jars that were in the container, so we can hopefully start using them soon. Well, some are already used for storing home made pasta and our dried zucchini.

And finally, just a couple of pictures from our garden - the zucchini is growing well at the moment:

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