Cabinet Day - January 19

With the drywall (mostly) done Saturday night, and the tile being delivered Tuesday - we had to get cabinets into place this weekend...which left us Sunday to do them.  And our original plans of keeping the original cabinets and just adding the monster wall cabinet got shot down when we ran into the moldy wall.  Those cabinets had to go.  Sooo, we brought out our newly acquired skills and our usual fearless confidence regarding these types of things (how hard could it be?  It's the Suddenly motto!) and we got busy installing some cabinets.

As we had been out of the house most of the day Saturday while they were spraying the ceiling with the knockdown stuff (twice), we had already acquired all the stuff we needed - cabinets, wood screws, 2x2s, etc.  First day of this entire project that we didn't have to make a bonus trip to Home Depot or Lowes!  That's a miracle in itself.

We started with the sink side because we had two cabinets to install there and plumbing to work around.  (About a year ago, we had a slab leak and ended up having our entire house replumbed.  They ran pipes through existing cabinets, which wasn't a big deal until we had to remove some of the cabinets.  That was fun.)  So, in a stroke of brilliance if I do say so myself, we figured out that if we would put 2x2s between the wall and the cabinets, we would have enough room to let the plumbing run behind the cabinets and we wouldn't have to do a bunch of plumbing work.  Yay!  So we mounted a couple of 2x2s in a nice, level way and installed the cabinets (it sounds so simple but getting those dern cabinets level was interesting).

Behold:

Nifty, eh?  Oh, and in the little cabinet against the wall, we installed our very exciting trash and recycling cans!!  No more cans on display under the awkward microwave cabinet!  Hooray!!!!

So, so, so groovy!

Oven cabinet time.  You'll recall from a previous post the absolutely fantastic deal on the cabinet for the wall oven and microwave.  That thing is a beast, and after trying about 5 times, we got it into place, level, and mounted to the studs in the wall. 

And yes, there are currently three different colors and styles of cabinets in the kitchen, and when the cabinets that I bought for the laundry room (at Habitat ReStore for twenty nine bucks!) get picked up today, the color and style count will go up to four.  But never fear.  We're painting the cabinet boxes and ordering new doors for everything (except the oven cabinet, those doors are the right style already).  Once that is all in place, you'll never know they started out as the hodge-podge collection they are today.  Except you will know because you read all about it here.

So this coming week is new tile week.  I am traveling to the great white north so I will probably miss all of that fun, or at least a good part of it.  I feel sorry for the husband, bird, and dog who have to live through the removal of about 700 square feet of existing tile.  But it will be worth it in the end.  Right?  Right!