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I know many of you wanted to see these pictures, so I had to figure out how best to grab some off the camera and put them up here. The darker cabinets before are above, and the lighter cabinets below are the after. The floor has not been finished yet, nor has the detail work like a toekick, light rail, or a tiled backsplash:
 
Labels: kitchen
The countertops are being installed as I type. Sitting at home, doing my job while grinders grind away. A little loud, but better than being at work. I still haven't been fired. In fact, I have a vacation coming next week. About damn time if you ask me. One of these days I was gonna snap and get myself fired. Things stay the same at work, but my frustration with it keeps growing. And now with this home project nearing an end, I won't be able to get my ya-yas by drilling holes and sanding walls. I need to take up martial arts or something. I need to vent my anger constructively. Else, I'll end up with an ulcer, and to what end? In the meantime, I bring you new countertops, wonky plumbing, and broken drill bits.Labels: job, kitchen, vacation
Nearly all the wall cabinets are up now, and we have an ersatz sink setup (which leaks like a sieve, but hey). The countertop guys are coming next week to do a template, and we'll have real live countertops before we leave on our trip. Saturday is going to be a make or break day, since it'll be the day we make some major decisions on heights of cabinets, cutting holes and bolting stuff to the wall and together. No turning back from that one. Actually, in the scheme of things...this project has been less stressful than the bathroom, in that you can live without a kitchen, but not without a shower. Less plumbing too. It'll be cool. I'll put up a full picture book when I'm done, just to prove that it indeed did happen and to record it for posterity.Labels: kitchen
The kitchen is no more. As of Saturday afternoon we have no working sink, the microwave and stove are disconnected, and we have about 2 feet of workable space. There are holes in the walls, dust everywhere, and the silverware drawer is living in our bedroom. We still took time out of our hectic lives to go to IKEA for the second time to pick up missing pieces, swap the pieces that were injured in some way, and eat more meatballs. We should be all set now. And, bonus in the AS-IS department, we were able to pick up the wood necessary to fix our pantry closet to make it look like our cabinets, all for a whopping $5. We felt quite proud. Still, it wasn't fun to come home last night from the trip and realize the house is still a war zone and we did nothing yesterday. But, today is a new day...and even though we're currently at work, we'll work tonight and hopefully get some wiring and sheetrock up. It'll get done...someday.Labels: ikea, kitchen
The construction is going along swimmingly. Every night we come home and put together a couple more cabinets. In fact, we're down to one last cabinet to build. The goal is to make sure we have all our parts accounted for by Sunday, since we're returning to IKEA to swap bad pieces, get missing parts, and return the stuff we didn't need. Cool thing we learned while doing this is that you can share parts among cabinets, so we ended up with stuff to return after all. In the meantime, giving some thought to what we would do with our old cabinets, we put them up on Craigslist. Oh my goodness! I had no idea our local Craigslist was such a powerful thing. Within 10 minutes of posting the cabinets must go for free (and mind you they're old and grubby), we had no less than 4 requests. That has since grown to about 30 responses. People are desperate for these cabinets. Of course, not all of them are available yet, since they're still attached to the wall and holding our plates and food. As far as our attitude toward each other, we're in good shape...though walking around the house is troublesome. Of course when we start tearing about the kitchen in earnest we may come to blows, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Just kidding honey!Labels: craigslist, ikea, kitchen
Like many people across the nation, we're holding on to our house for a while and waiting for the housing cycle to play itself out. We're also trying to improve what we've got so when the time is right, we'll have a great house to show. To that end, we've recently redone the bathroom, and now are working on the kitchen. Being bold pioneering sorts, we're doing it ourselves. And to do our cabinets, we picked IKEA. I love IKEA. I love IKEA even after spending 10 hours there on Saturday. Why 10 hours? Why not 10 hours? It took some time to place the order, we had lunch, more shopping, picked up the order and had to check to make sure our order was complete, and most importantly, packing the truck to take it home. And it all made it home. No doors on the highway, no hinges bouncing away on the medians, just a full full full truck. And now it's stacked in our family room. All flatpacked, all just waiting to be assembled. In the meantime, I'll be venetian plastering the kitchen walls. It's oddly relaxing compared to my job. Artistic too. It'll be good. It'll be fine. Just don't ask to eat over at my house at the moment. The kitchen is a bit of a wreck.Labels: ikea, kitchen
My cold seemingly cleared up over the weekend, which made me very happy. What didn't make me happy was coming into work this morning and finding that my e-mail system (and just mine, no one elses) was hosed beyond recognition. My sent e-mails are have no subject or recipient anymore and bear the same time stamp even though created over a full year. Last Tuesday, I came to work to find our server didn't work. I swear, it's like the place is running on bailing wire and twine. Anyway, I finally got some of my stupid meetings done, but not all of them because that would be too good I suppose. So, what to do now? Plan on tearing my kitchen at home apart. I just don't have enough stress in my life, I need to throw it into total chaos.Labels: job, kitchen
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