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There ya go... cabs up! The sides will actually look just like the front when I'm done- I have matching trim pieces, I just haven't installed them yet because they're currently too deep and need to be trimmed down. This should be easy with my new table saw. If all goes as planned, you won't see any white externally when it's all done. 

Anyway, John helped me a great deal- you absolutely need two people. There's some trickiness entailed with the mounting... you screw a rail to the wall then there's some fancypants Ikea hardware that holds it all up. Only problem was that on one of the walls there was only one stud to hang the rail (and that corner guy is heaaaavvvvy). Fortunately I happened to have some pretty honkin' expanding metal wall inserts, so I put a couple of those into the drywall and hopefully the combo will hold (I also braced the bottom with an extra piece of the rail bracket beneath because the very end was bending a bit. I didn't take a pic and it's kind of hard to explain it without, but just pretend I did it and we'll all be happy).

Once I deciphered the number/letter system for the custom mahogany doors, it got easier. The hinges (from Ikea) are super crazy feats of mechanical engineering. Not only do they attach to the doors with no screws (you flip down a metal piece and they attach by expanding into big routed holes in the doors), they have screws that let you easily adjust alignment in all directions. I thought getting the doors straight and swinging properly was going to be difficult, but the hinges make it super easy. We initially had some confusion because I installed the part inside the cabs backwards, but once I flipped them, all was well.

I didn't take pix, but I built three more of the floor cabs. Basically I'm going from the corner out- you build the corner floor cab, set the height even with the adjustable legs then build the one next to it, adjust the height, screw to the adjacent cab (they include slick hardware for attaching them), repeat, etc.

While building the corner cab, I put a piece in backwards after applying glue to the little wood dowel rods. That was no fun. I had to pry it apart with a chisel, cut one of the dowels, than slowly drill out the dowel using gradually larger drill bits. Fortunately, none of this did any major damage, and you won't be able to see where I pried it apart because it'll be covered by the counter top. That'll teach me to be careful! Truthfully, I had been working way too long Saturday and probably should've quit by then.