Kitchen Remodel Week 4

Day 1 - Paint and floors
The contractor applied another coat of paint to the ceiling because he wasn't happy with the way it looked. He also started prepping the floor for the appliances that fit between the cabinets. Since the cabinets are shifting slightly to the left he add to add some flooring to fill in where I hadn't put the floor down years ago.

Flooring Modified

Cabinets brought in to start hanging

Cabinets brought in to start hanging

By the end of the day the contractor had brought in most of the upper cabinets prepping to put them in the next day. He has put them on the floor in the order they will go on the wall, except for the piece on the far right, with the open 4 shelf unit going right up against the window over the sink. The cabinet on the far right in this picture ends up at the left of the rest of these over the refrigerator.

Day 2 - Cabinets on the wall!

I called home during the day and my son told me that the contractor was assembling the cabinets on the floor in order to hang them up on the wall as one big piece that's already completely lined up.

 

By the end of the day we had cabinets on the wall, but I was warned "not to play with them." So here is a simple picture, no moving cabinet doors :-)

Day 3 - Contractor day off

Day 4 - Sink base and Island put in place

I never realized that the island cabinets were actually an assembly of cabinets that you can pick and choose what you want. As part of the promotion they were giving a "free" garbage can cabinet. We decided that it would fit well on the left side of the island, and the tall cabinet that we lost to the left of the sink would work well on the right side of the island. The large cabinet in the middle would serve to hold dishes pots and pans etc. in the bottom and assorted items in the drawer in the middle on the top.

Day 5 - Island completion and knobs/handles

We chose to keep our butcher block top from the old island and save some money on the granite counter tops. So the contractor fully assembled the island and put the butcher block on top of it. One of the last steps will be sanding, bleaching and re-surfacing the wood so that it can look as nice as the rest of the counters.

One of the things I thought about while choosing where to put the garbage can is that you have to use a hand to hold the garbage and another to open the cabinet. What if you could open the garbage cabinet with your foot? I ordered an extra handle and had the contractor place it on the bottom of the garbage cabinet door and now I can open the garbage with my foot:

Cabinet doors have knobs, drawers have handles.

The granite counter top "fabricator" came to the house today to take final measurements for the counters and will start making the pieces from the larger piece we saw a few weeks ago.


The contractor told us today that we get to move in to the kitchen starting next Friday, let's hope that's true.