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Showing posts with label cabinets. Show all posts

Sunday, April 10, 2016

The Kitchen is IN!

I am so incredibly excited that our kitchen was installed last week! 

In 4 work days our trim carpenters, Pat & Eric, unpacked almost all of these boxes:
Kitchen cabinets in boxes

There were an awful lot of giant boxes!
And installed almost all of the cabinets! 
Cheers to the new kitchen!

Yippee! It looks just wonderful, even with the
cardboard countertops!

They built our island, 
It is hard to see the island; but it is hiding on the lower left of the photo
behind the garbage can & bag of joint compound (because of course
some of our brand spanking new drywall got torn out by the trim carpenters
in order to fully install our cabinets......#worthit #Ithink)

installed our barnwood beams in the ceiling, 
Our barnwood ready to be installed
1st beam is partway done
1st beam done, 2nd one waiting to be wrapped
and even gave us temporary cardboard countertops - which are very fancy and perfect for holding snacks and drinks :)
National Beer Day celebrations

Major Friday night snack attack waiting for Chris
to come home from work.

Delicious takeout for our first dinner party!

I spend so much of my time in the kitchen; I could not be happier about how ours is coming together! 9 more days until our countertops are delivered and installed; at that point it will feel really REALLY real! 

Update April 19, 2016:

We have our counters! They were delivered & installed today & they look wonderful!
Here comes the island!

Loving the way they look!

I've been having way too much fun with panoramic photos lately!

The island is almost done!

The very next day, the trimmers
installed our final (& largest) cabinet!
Now I just need to move in and start cooking!!

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Au Revoir Upper Cabinets

This was an easy one! 

Not that difficult!
Chris working on the 2nd cabinet



Screwdrivers were really the only tools we needed to get these upper cabinets off the second floor kitchen walls.

I love when things go smoothly!

After - no more cabinet!
We also had our first fail....a stripped screw in just the wrong place made this greasy shelf impossible to take down on the first try.
1st DIY fail - the stripped screw really screwed us

Good thing I have some of the world's greatest friends who are willing to help me with my crazy DIY renovation projects! Thanks to Laura we got that nasty shelf off the wall & into the garbage (where it belonged!). It involved a hacksaw blade & some brute force....I wouldn't recommend our method!
After- no more cabinet & no more greasy shelf! Thanks Laura!
Also, thanks to our friend Mark, we now know our sweet exhaust fan in the 2nd floor kitchen is fully functional! All it took was pulling the chain (which we hadn't done :) Nice to know it works, particularly given the stubborn smell of natural gas in the 2nd floor kitchen. Airflow is good if there might be a gas leak. Next on the list, call the gas company........