Our Kitchen Cabinets Are Like Slugs
As in, they take their sweet time. Yesterday was installation day 1, and it didn’t quite go exactly as planned. But then again, nothing in home improvement ever does.
It can best be compared to Christmas morning as a child when you can hardly sleep the night before, anxiously awaiting the crack of dawn so you can rip into all of those carefully wrapped gifts from “Santa.” John and I stayed up late and woke up early excitedly chattering about the long awaited installation. Remember, we’ve been completely kitchenless for close to two months (no cabinets, no counters, no sink, no nothing) so imagine our excitement at the prospect of seeing all of our cabinets out of their boxes and into their final resting places.
And the day started out well. It wasn’t until about an hour into the installation when I got the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad news. One of our two corner base cabinets was reversed. In other words, they sent us two righties instead of a rightie and a leftie. Although KraftMaid has rushed to correct their mistake, it’s still gonna be about 2 weeks (!) before the new cabinet arrives. Boo! The kitchen was on schedule to be done by the 19th, but now we’ll be lucky to have a finished kitchen by early January.
And that’s how the Grinch stole our Christmas kitchen.
In the meantime, our installer has decided to forge ahead with all the other cabinets. Here’s what the kitchen looked like on Sunday night:
And what it looked like on Monday night:
We can’t believe the amazing amount of storage in our extra tall 42 inch upper cabinets. Burger (in his Christmas sweater) and I can practically live inside:
I guess the cabinet debacle is just another lesson that nothing ever comes easy… but when it’s all said and done it’s nothing short of miraculous. Even if our kitchen is fashionably late, at least we’ll have the rest of our lives to enjoy it.
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Comments
I adore the color of your kitchen walls! I recently purchased my first home. The cabinets are white as well and I desperately need a color for the walls. I can’t seem to find anything that looks right. I would love to know what color your walls (gentle tide) compares to at SHERWIN WILLIAMS….I need help!
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Sonni
Hey Sonni,
Just get them to color match it! Bringing in a swatch of paint is as easy as pie, and you get a perfect match in that Sherwin William’s paint you love. Hope it helps!
xo,
s
i was trying to look back over your kitchen cabinet ordering/installation process as we are currently going through the same thing…i’m sorry if it was mentioned elsewhere…i really did try and look, but you used home depot to do the cabinet installation? is it cheaper to use them as opposed to a general contractor?
Yup, we used Home Depot’s installers because their labor charges were extremely reasonable and they had a cap (so even if it took them extra time to do something, it wasn’t extra money). You can always find someone to do anything cheaper (especially on craigslist these days) but we knew the guys at Home Depot would do it well and would have to answer to their giant corporation if we didn’t like their work- and again they had great rates too. We would highly recommend going that route if you’re doing Home Depot cabinetry. Hope it helps!
xo,
s
nice kitchen..