Renovation (Week 20)
After two weeks the cabinets are mostly installed, and they look beautiful.
It took a lot longer than I expected, but I guess that it's a very exacting process. If they are off by millimeters then stuff doesn't look right. What I really love is that the grain goes all the way up. Because we opted for flat cabinets instead of something framed, like shaker style, the cabinet maker was able to match the grain.
It feels really good to stand in the kitchen and imagine myself cooking there. I can't wait until I can actually cook a real meal there.
There have been a few "scary" moments in the past couple weeks. We thought that we might not able to use the disgustingly large kitchen sink that we bought, but the contractor thinks that it's going to work after all. Unfortunately we won't be able to use the tilt-down drawer that was built into that cabinet. It would have been an awesome place for sponges and such. The same thing happened with the bathroom sink but we decided to just get a smaller version of it instead.
We also had a nice long conversation with the concrete guy about our foundation and we feel a lot better after that. While we're going to eventually have to get to that, it doesn't need to happen this year so we'll be able to enjoy a quiet house for several years.
This week they start laying tile.
As always, all of my photos from this week can be found here.
It took a lot longer than I expected, but I guess that it's a very exacting process. If they are off by millimeters then stuff doesn't look right. What I really love is that the grain goes all the way up. Because we opted for flat cabinets instead of something framed, like shaker style, the cabinet maker was able to match the grain.
It feels really good to stand in the kitchen and imagine myself cooking there. I can't wait until I can actually cook a real meal there.
There have been a few "scary" moments in the past couple weeks. We thought that we might not able to use the disgustingly large kitchen sink that we bought, but the contractor thinks that it's going to work after all. Unfortunately we won't be able to use the tilt-down drawer that was built into that cabinet. It would have been an awesome place for sponges and such. The same thing happened with the bathroom sink but we decided to just get a smaller version of it instead.
We also had a nice long conversation with the concrete guy about our foundation and we feel a lot better after that. While we're going to eventually have to get to that, it doesn't need to happen this year so we'll be able to enjoy a quiet house for several years.
This week they start laying tile.
As always, all of my photos from this week can be found here.
1 Comments:
Those cabinets look really sweet. We are definitely going to check out Henry Built for our place. Next time I see you you will have to tell me what you paid for them.
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