Abel De la Torre's Profile

You will got to jail if you paint over that beautiful wood work. Section 123456 of the municipal historical society.

Love it. This project gives the middle finger to all those renovation TV shows that gut perfectly useful cabinets. Not only did you save $$$ but also saved trees.

I tried hard to keep my existing cabinets but during remodel just but particle board used in my existing cabinets crumbled while doing electrical over head and setting a beam to the sagging ceiling. Had only the previous owner used a bit more stable materials. However I kept all the good plywood doors and reusing them to make my various subfloor cubbies for wine storage. :)

A year is not much time to wait for your renovation. In the mean time try figuring out how to creatively use your existing items. Find a new place for those cabinets...reuse as island, reuse in laundry room, reuse in garage as work bench, or maybe even find a new owner for them. Use that energy into planning and working out the details.

Be careful doing any work right now you can end up opening up a can of worms.

WordGRL. Those are usually the easiest doors to fabricate.... I would contact a woodworker and they could do these in their sleep. If you are handy with the router its a breeze once the panels are cut to size.

www.jmkitchencabinets.com They are in Los Angeles. They are a true custom cabinetry fabricators and designers. They have a great show room and will soon be getting a look at my cabinets. Great prices because they are the direct contact and they do not finish or paint the cabinets. Contact Tony there and tell him Abel sent referred you to them. True service with a smile.

We are finding out to that its okay to live with a house with a "patina". Embrace the patina.

These "Live Better Electrically" was a campaign with spoke person Ronal Regan in the 1960's. My parent's house in Downey California is a Mid Century home which won that same medallion. Their medallion is embedded onto the entrance concrete walkway.

We were fortunate to have one of the original owner's kid (now in her early '50s) stop by and she revealed to us that the house won the award for its outstanding "modern" light system. The entire house's lights are controlled locally as anyone would switch their lights on and off individually per room. In addition to that this house was fitted with two master control panels in the master bedroom and the den to control "all" the lights remotely. It's nice as they even control outlets intended for Christmas lights on the so-fit of the perimeter of the home.

The system is quite complex as it has lots of wiring and a panel of over a dozen of relays located in a panel in the garage. Pretty neat. One day I will post pictures of that system and tag this post.

For now please enjoy a retro commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5KEu5WvdnE

Use a spray bottle with water and spray it on the tip of the area being drilled. It will keep the area cool to avoid breaking and also keep any of those glass filings from entering your lungs.

I've had to open up the TV and just cut off the LED. Not everyone can do with opening up their tv and voiding their warranty but it works for me.

Love picture #1. Looks like the owner tried to replicate his desk to an Apple retail store table. Or did he buy them.

Living in SoCal I must say I we are lucky. Found out that the first Apple Retail store was the Glendale Galleria Store. Have so many stories about the development of that store.

One story was that each of the Apple store tables cost them $60K a piece.