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Michael E. Robinson has volunteered considerable time as our Project Architect and Architect of Record for our first two cottages being built at San Marcos High School.  We are very grateful for his contribution to our program.  We could not have accomplished what we have without his expertise and guidance.  On June 11, Chris Geldert presented a custom crafted thank you plaque to Michael for his support of our students and our veterans.  After two years of hard work, Michael passed the Architectural ‘baton’ to Department Head, Joseph Lucido, and Adjunct Professor, Riccardo Ferguson, from the Department of Architecture at Palomar [...]

Each cabinet in a kitchen is assembled with a variety of hardware pieces that hold the individual cabinets together, and connect them together into a beautiful wall of furniture.  Wurth Louis and Company donated all of the  hardware for our cabinets, including all of the fasteners needed to assemble and install the cabinets: #7 5/8” wood screws; #8 1”, 1-¼” and 2-½” wood screws; 1-¼” and 1-½” 18 ga. crown staples; Euroscrews; Fastcap PVC screw cap covers; 1 mm PVC edge banding, and; 3M Fasbond contact cement. No kitchen cabinet would be complete without decorative hardware from Wurth Louis and Company. [...]

ESI (aka Edgebanding Services, Inc.) donated four rolls of 1 mm x 300’ of ESI Cannella Oak tape banding to finish the edges of our doors and cabinets, and two rolls of 1 mm x 300’ hardrock maple banding to finish the edges of the interior shelves.  That is 1,800 feet of edge banding for two sets of kitchen cabinets.  Thank you ESI for your generosity!

Brendan Mathews wasn’t satisfied with building nice, functional cabinets.  He wanted to build beautiful cabinets for our veterans!  So, naturally, he wanted to finish the cabinets built by his students with a textured melamine laminate finish from American Laminates.  Jennifer Ruder and Melvin Hardy from the Palomar College Department of Interior Design worked with Mia Roseberry of Wounded Warrior Homes to select a beautiful laminate finish material from dozens of color and texture options offered by American Laminates.  They selected the Cannella Oak color, with a Real Wood Texture.  Our friend Brad Irvine from Saroyan Hardwoods helped Brendan obtain a donation [...]

What are cabinets without drawers:  boring and not very functional!  When Brendan Mathews asked Chris Kish at DBS (aka Drawer Box Specialties) for help, Chris not only promised to donate drawers for our cabinets, he said “Thank you for allowing us to participate in this fantastic event.”  Thank you DBS and Chris Kish for your generous donation of 24 drawers and two double trash bin units for our two cottages.  The next time you buy cabinets, make sure that they have the finest drawers available, from DBS, of course!

To be functional, cabinet doors must be hung with hinges, and cabinet drawers must have drawer glides so that they can be easily opened and closed.  Brendan and his students are building Euro style, frameless cabinets which require specific hinges and drawer glides.  Fortunately, when Brendan asked Blum, Inc. to donate hardware for our cabinets, Brent Akenson of Blum was happy to support our students and our veterans with the donation of 60 cam height adjustable hinge plates, 44 Inserta hinges, 16 zero protrusion Inserta hinges and 26 Movento 21” drawer guides.  If this sounds ‘Greek’ to you, trust me when [...]

A lot of materials are required to build kitchen cabinets.  The starting point is the plywood that is used to build the boxes and doors for the base and wall cabinets.  Brad Irvine, Manager of Saroyan Hardwoods in San Marcos, contacted Saroyan’s plywood supplier, Timber Products Company, on our behalf, seeking plywood for our cabinets.  Randy Lambert, Daniel Libolt and Kassy Stout of Timber Products arranged for the donation of 24 sheets of ¾” prefinished maple plywood, 8 sheets of ¼” prefinished plywood, 3 sheets of ¾” shop birch and 4 sheets of ¾” particle board.  That is a lot of [...]

When Craig Dawson contacted T.M. Cobb’s Branch Manager Marty Gibbons and Outside Sales Rep Sandra Whitworth seeking the donation of doors, they were happy to help.  They arranged for the donation of two beautiful fiberglass, single lite, French entry doors with integral blinds as well as two interior bathroom doors. Ask our friends at The Pelletier Company about their selection of T.M. Cobb doors, and tell them you appreciate The Pelletier Company and TM Cobb for helping our students and our veterans.