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Fit test the doors, these were also routered with the round-over bit. The hinges and handles are from Home Depot.

Stand is ready for the doors. Bought some nice pine boards for this so it would not warp:

A picture of the back: Another screw up here, I am using a 20 gallon tall tank for the sump/refuge. Well, the center leg in the back was about 2 inches too much to the left! Couldn't get the tank in there! Had to cut it and reposition it to the right! If you build something like this, measure...

A shot of some of the detail:

The crown moulding is glued/nailed into place. You can see the wood putty after I sunk the finishing nails. This putty is one of the reasons I went with the white. Stain doesn't look quite right over the putty. I also have cut the holes for the doors in this shot. Just drilled starter holes and...

The decoratve trim is in place so I cut and am placing the crown moulding. 45 degree mitre cuts for the corners:

Now you can see how the corner beads and blocks are in place. The decorative trim is cut and placed into the vertical spaces between the blocks.

Once the blocks were in place I added the corner bead. This is why added the plywood spacer so there would be a small "ledge" between the top and bottom trim boards:

Next I cut the blocks that would be at the top and bottom of the decorative trim. These were glued/nailed into place:

Here is a close-up of the top moulding trim:

I added the top trim board that would support the crown moulding. That's the 1X3 that is attached to the plywood spacer. Then added the cap on top of that. The crown will go between these two pieces all the way around the top. the cap was routered with a round-over bit once it was glued/nailed...

A shot of the bottom trim: this was one of the expensive "stain ready" boards, 1 X 4 inches. they are all white now!!

Another shot of the lpywood spacers. I miter cut the bottom trim boards and used some framing corners to hold them together while the glue dried:

Next I added some plywood pieces to the top and bottom front and side panels. This gave me an extra 3/8 inch once the trim was in place so that the corner beads were not flush with the crown moulding on the top and the trim board on the bottom:

Here is the stand now with the front and side panels attached. Just drywalll screws for these since they will be hidden later by the trim:

Next were the side panels, these were a bit more stable than the front face so I did not add the 1X1s on the back corners (The front corners had the one by ones for support already):

A shot of attaching the front face. Another screw up here since I had placed the supporting legs on the inside of the top and bottom frame, there was a 1 inch gap in between the front panel and the legs. I added 1X1s on the three face fronts to allow me to attach the face to. It was unstable...

Measuring and cutting the front face. This is from 3/8 inch plywood:

Here a look at the bottom after the shelf is in place:

The bottom was also made form 1/2 inch plywood. I screwed up here as I had to remove one of the center posts to fit it in there: