Hi frugal friends! I hope today is a great day for you! Mr. Frugal and I are taking on a new project at our son’s house. We are helping him with a remodel on his first home. It’s a slow process because we all work full time jobs. Since are working on a budget, we have a lot of DIY projects to tackle.
I shared the repainting of the bathroom vanity. I love how it turned out! You can see the post all about it here.
Today’s project is the bathroom countertop. It’s going to be a really long countertop, because there is a boxed out area beside the vanity that is over the stairs to the basement. We are going to incorporate this into the design the best we can. We decided extending the countertop all the way over this box will look the best.
We used 7 2x4x10 pine boards for the longest part and 2 2x4x8 for the shorter section. The shorter section was 3 feet long so we cut them to length.
We have marked where to drill the pocket holes.
The first thing we did was decide which side of the boards we wanted to be the “top”. We judged by whether or not they had any major gouges or bad knots. If both sides were good we always went with the side without the stamp on it.
Next we drilled pocket holes with my Kreg Pocket Hole Jig – A LOT OF HOLES! We drilled holes about every 8 inches on the back of all the boards. These should be staggered on the connecting boards to give the most stability.
his is the Kreg Pocket Hole Jig I have. It’s the Kreg Jig R3. It’s in the lower price range of their pocket hole jigs. I’ve had mine for several years and can’t remember exactly how much I paid for it. They have this one at Amazon now and you get a free clamp with it.
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