Hey fellow DIY Nerds!! Guess who I’m hanging out with right now???

Yup! John & Sherry from www.YoungHouseLove.com

I got to hang out with them most of the day – they are fantastic. I have more photos coming – but I had to show all YOU this photo with them and I inside my High Performance Wall exhibit at the Portland Home and Garden Show right now.

Besides the shining beacons that are John and Sherry – you can also see a spray foam cut out, House Wrap, proper window flashing AND window cut outs.

I’ll be at the Home and Garden show all week so if you make it to the Portland Expo Center this weekend ask for me! I’ll give you a personal tour of the 2012 #SmartHome.

Success!

and here are people that actually showed up!!

Here is the entry table with all the info for the Tour. Look!

It’s official!

When people were walking through the house and the basement – I really wanted every homeowner or potential homeowner to see how simple each measure is to achieve and how they affect the way a home operates.

So I made these! I taped these up around the house and basement:

and now I’m sharing them with you. If the writing s too small you can click on each one and it will open in a new window a lot larger:

I found a cabinet at the ReStore that is perfect for the kitchen sink in the basement. It was a good height AND it didn’t have doors on it so I only had to pay $20 for it. I wanted all the doors to match by using all ReStore/ReBuilding Center cabinets so in order to do that – I was prepared to make doors.

I had Miracle Mark come install it so that it would sit level and the granite would sit perfectly.

I bought 2 sheets of “cabinet grade” plywood from Home Depot. It’s what the Home Depot crew told me to pick up. It was only $14.99 per sheet.

The open spaces in the cabinets were measured and the doors were measured just a little bit larger.

It took 4 of us to comedically get 8 doors cut on a table saw. So there is no visual evidence.

Sanded both sides of the doors:

So there were no “splinters” left.

Then we painted the doors:

And then I made my weekly trip  to the ReBuilding Center to uncover this hidden box:

With these little beauties:

for $0.50 each!

I wasn’t as lucky with the hinges. I bought hinges from Builders Hardware Supply for a couple dollars a piece and screwed them all together. Easy Peezy Chicken Breezy:

[Finished Hung Cabinets]

They aren’t the most detailed kitchen cabinets, but I find them to look modern and simple.

I made Kitchen Cabinets On A Greenstring!