Building the Set – Finding kitchen Cupboards – Blog 11

Building the Set – Finding Kitchen Cupboards

ManfreedintheKitchen.com Blog 11

A warning to all men out there, if you are going to spring an idea on your wife, like I did, it’s best if you have a plan laid out.  I didn’t.

What I was doing was purely spontaneous.  My wife called it “winging it”.  Did I really know what I was doing?

Well in all truthfulness, I didn’t have a clue.

I had an end vision.  It was the details in getting there that, according to my wife, we painfully lacking.

Once the cameras arrived I ordered a tripod and two production lights.  They were cheap.  I used them in the beginning for rehearsals.   But in fact too cheap meant un-useable for a professional look. It proved to be an unfortunate waste of money.

Now I needed a set.  I was creating a cooking show for the Internet so I needed a kitchen.  What to do?

I’ve never been really good at construction.  Measure twice and cut once is a good motto.  It works for most people.  It’s never worked for me.  My only building accomplishments have been building boxes.  Every person needs one success.

How to build a set?

I needed a bright idea time.  First thing Monday morning I looked in the telephone book yellow pages.  Yes there was a time when there was a hand held telephone book.  I opened it to renovation companies and rang the first name on the list at precisely 9:00 a.m.

The boss answered instantly.  “It’s your lucky day,” he said.  “I’m demolishing a house this week and if you go over there tomorrow you can tear-out the kitchen cupboards”.  He gave me an address.

With the help of an eight-four year old friend and six hours of un-screwing, pulling, bending, tearing and carrying I finally had my home-built trailer full of what I hoped was the base for a complete set.

Side-note: a home built utility trailer is a box on wheels.