Kitchen Installation

Today is a big day for us - we are having the kitchen in the suite installed!! All that's missing is the counter top & appliances....
We got to Mark's bright & early - well, 9:00 am...We woke up to snow on the ground!!! What is up with this weather??? After we cleaned out the truck & put some wood down to protect the cabinets, we drove super-slow back to the house with Mark in the back making sure things didn't bounce around too much.




We then put it all into the suite space - here you can see that we painted the plywood floor. The colour is called Eagle Rock & it looks like a deep moss green/almost camo green.









The we had to make sure that the cabinets were spaced right for the area. Here was the test to see if the stain on the hickory cabinets would tie in with the yellow & the floor 'green'. I was so excited to see that it looks GREAT! We did notice that there is an electrical plug that is in the wrong spot...It's just to the right of the photo - it should be over the counter instead of behind the stove...So we will have to see if the electrician can cut into the drywall & move the plug. If he doesn't want to, we can deal with just covering it up & dealing with it later.

Mark took the rest of the afternoon to hang the cupboards & put in the base cabinets. We found out that our drywall has a nice 'wave' in it - not visible unless you are trying to attach something with a straight edge! But Mark is able to compensate for these minor boo-boo's.



At the end of the day, Mark has just a few things left to do tomorrow. We haven't picked our counter top - I felt it was important to see how the cabinets looked in the space before choosing either a counter too dark to too light. It takes 6 weeks for the counters to come in.....so we will install a temporary counter top make of some super-duper plywood and get it figured out sometime in April. Mark will also return to install the crown moulding.

This is what it looked like this morning - in-between snow showers & rain showers & fits of sunshine. Thankfully the snow is now melted, but it's still rather cold out! What's up with the weather????

Dude showed up today to work on putting in the glass panels for the front face of the decks. His job wasn't made any easier when his 'side-kick' went home early due to 'illness' & the frequent bursts of rain that blew right into the decks....

Glad I haven't started my gardening yet....