I was ready to finish the kitchen cabinet project. I had 5 doors, 2 drawer fronts and a kitchen sink front panel left to build. I already had the drawer and kitchen sink panel fronts done from phase 4. I had the door frame for the garbage can cabinet done, but I needed to cut and finish the door for the panel.
I forgot to make a door for the laundry chute upstairs, so I glued together three pieces of wood and cut the door to size. Also, the cutting board front was cracked and re-glued since we bought the house. It looked terrible, so finally, I would fix it. I turned it 180 degrees, added a finger groove on the bottom, sanded it, and stained the exposed front.
The building process, again, went well, except for one minor screw-up when I routed the wrong side of a door frame. The panels, door frames and the laundry door were ready to finish.
I discovered while staining the back side of the last set of doors that using a foam brush to apply the stain worked great. A foam brush would give great stain coverage and provide less of a mess. Suddenly, applying stain was as easy with a stroke of a brush.
After I applied the stain on my last door frame, I discovered I could have ordered just one quart of stain. I had used far less than one quarter of the gallon. I was not sure when I would use it again…maybe when I build a wood mantle for the fireplace.