Die Kabinette sind angebracht worden!

Or...the cabinets have been installed, auf Deutsch. Oh, how we have waited to see these.

This is week 12. On Monday the floors were buffed and a second coat of poly-deathfumes were applied. I took the day off and palled around with my folks in Old Towne Alexandria. Good times were had. The floors were finished around 3:30pm so we couldn't walk on them until 6 pm. We all went out to dinner and when we came back they were beautiful. Hawkins flooring was able to buff out the mail that dried stuck to the floor on Friday, Steve said the boss scowled, and uttered a "Dios Mio", and probably a couple of other Spanish unprintables, and then he just buffed it out. They're gorgeous.

Anyhoo, on Tuesday they started installing cabinetry. Thank goodness that Mom and Dad got to see the base cabs installed before they left on Wednesday morning. Below are some shots of how it turned out on Wednesday morning.

This is the dining room that thier using as a staging area. Below is the cabinetry for the 'message centre'.


This is the main work area. We went with a maple base, that is stained to look like cherry. Natural cherry cabs were THOUSANDS of $$$ more. Melissa Chernick, Commonwealth Designer Extraordinaire, steered us towards this manufacturer. The company's name is Diamond Cabinetry, and its a semi-custom cabinet maker. Melissa says that semi custom means that you order cabinetry from a catalog and it's made and shipped to you. They came in boxes that were labelled, manufactured in Alabama. Wonder where? There were some really talented carpenters in the town I grew up in, Ozark.


This is the wall for the pantry and refridgerator, and what we call the Baking Centre. The pantry has pull out shelves. The 'fridge will go in the centre, we got Jenn-Air 'fridge with french doors and a pullout freezer. The Baking Centre will have an appliance garage and book shelves for cookbooks and whatnot.
This is looking from the sink area into my new workspace. The corner cab is a garbage can lazy susan. 3 plastic bins, one for garbage, one for paper, and one for glass and plastic. No more schlepping recyclables out to the bin! The cab at the far right will open into the New Space, so that we won't have to reach accross the expanse of countertop to reach the door, there will be another appliance garage under this cab.

A front view.

This will serve as a broom closet, and cleaning products storage. It's only about 1 foot deep. Hmm, it looks disturbingly like a Confessional!

This is the Message Centre. I'll show more pix of this later, it doesn't make much sense now.

Here's the outside shot. Steve moved that gi-normous mound of foul smelling dirt and is ready to build the deck. You can't see it in this shot, but the holes for the posts have been dug. The stuff is all on our parking pad out front ready to be built.

Today, the plumbing fixtures arrived! Melissa Chernick, Commonwealth Designer Extraordinaire, came by this morning as well to finalize our color choices. They did more work on the cabinetry, adding doors, drawers etc. The guy from the granite place came over today and measured for the countertop. I can't wait to see it, because I haven't looked at it since February. Next week, Mike-the-drywall-guy is coming next week to paint, as well as the tile guy to do the backsplash.

It's all coming together really fast. We can't wait to see the finished product.

S'all for now!

CC