Family Room Built-in - Fast Cabinet Doors

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This family room built-in/entertainment center is DONE and I'm delighted with its outcome!

At the end of this post, you can find all the links to all the previous work, right now I just want to jump into this final part. >>  The doors and then, the reveal pics.

This is the way the built-in looked at the end of my last post ... A whole bunch of cabinets waiting for doors...

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However, I have to take you back to when I was building the base cabinets, it was at this precise moment when I thought I wasn't going to finish this project before the Holidays if I also had to build the doors.

Well, I also remembered how it took me a complete year to build the doors for the cabinets in the dining room. 

Yep. The building of doors is not my specialty. 🤨

And that's when I reached out to my friends at Fast Cabinet Doors. They are the pros building doors and fast!

I gave them the dimensions for all of the doors I needed for this project and within two weeks of placing my order, this guy brought this huge package to my front door.

My doors arrived unscathed. They were packed very well, with lots of extra pieces of cardboard. And hey, the cardboard was reused during the painting process. ;)

I ordered my doors with bore holes and hinges, so yes, I received this big package of hinges to install.

As soon as I unpacked the doors I brought them to the family room to see how they fit/look on the cabinets. 😍😍😍

Since I knew I was going to paint them, I ordered the paint-grade hardwood with MDF panel- Shaker-style doors.

They were super smooth and ready for paint.

However, I went ahead and installed them, and luckily I found out I had ordered the wrong hinges. I got the 1/2" inch overlay hinges, but I needed the 3/4" overlay.  I built the cabinets without a face frame and I was going for the inset cabinet door look.

That rookie mistake with the hinges was one of the reasons I couldn't finish the entire project before the holidays.

While the new hinges arrived, I painted the doors. I started this job inside the room, with a paintbrush and a roller, painting the inside of the doors and smoothing out the roller texture with a paintbrush.

But oh my goodness, this was so time-consuming! 

So much so that I decided to bring all the doors outside to the garage and spray paint them with my Wagner paint sprayer. Such a huge relief.

14 doors, and 9 shelves on both sides, they were all painted twice. In between coats I used a 220-grid sanding sponge to smooth out the surfaces.

The new hinges arrived, the doors were hung and this project was checked off my to-do list!

And to tell you the truth, I can't believe this space is now mine!!

It's a world of difference from what was my norm! 😝

Remember how messy those cabinets looked during the holidays when the kids were here??  The doors finally turned that messy room into this tranquil and collected space!

Though, I had to start organizing all my pretties! Well, this left tower is now holding kitchenware. All these items were sentenced to the basement, which was a pain having to go down there every time I needed them.

Ha, not anymore! And I love that the doors keep all the mess hidden!
Adding those long doors to both end shelves was one of the best decisions ever! They hold tons of stuff.

On the other end cabinet, I'm storing decorative items, but I'm showing you all those changes in an upcoming post.

You can read everything about the vintage doorknobs right HERE. Quite a change, right?

I can't stop admiring those doors and well, the entire building!

And here are my very best tips if you're thinking about changing those old cabinet doors you have in the kitchen or don't want to build the doors for your latest DIY project:

1. Measure twice, order once! Good measuring is perhaps, the most important thing when ordering your doors. I followed all the instructions Fast Cabinet Doors have on their website to get a perfect fit. If you are replacing the doors, it's even easier, just measure those doors.
2. Decide what type of door you want. Fast Cabinet Doors has an extensive collection of custom-made cabinet doors in a variety of high-quality wood species and styles including inset, solid, and raised panel doors. All doors are sold as unfinished wood, pre-sanded, and ready to be painted or stained upon arrival.
3. Bores or no bores?  Fast Cabinet Doors gives you the option of doors with or without boreholes to set the hinges for a small fee. 
4. Determine what type of hinge is the one you need for your doors. This is something many do-it-yourself's don't pay much attention to (me included), but it's so important due to the many different types of doors. Here's a great guide for choosing the right hinge for your project.

Well, there you have it! This part of my family room is now complete. I need to go and put the other side of the room together, but first I need to bring Louie, my little helper to the hair salon. ;)

You can visit and order your next project doors right here at:

Fast Cabinet Doors

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And as promised, here are all the links to the built-ins and family room work:

Family Room Reveal

The Tools That Made It Easier

The Door Knobs

The Painting Process

Installing the Top or Header

Building and Installing the Shelves

The Countertop

Building the Base Cabinets

Family Room - The Before

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