Appliance garage with upper cabinet is slid into place – the final piece!
The guys from A&G arrived bright and early and immediately set about multiple operations in our house. Dan installed electrical outlets flanking our kitchen range, John started in on moulding, and Al assisted with moulding and installation of the final cabinet unit. That last unit was second only in size, I think, to the pantry … it’s the appliance garage with two-door cabinet above, and all one piece! Al and Dan slid it from its huge shipping carton, prepped it for installation, and slid it into place. Once fastened into position the garage/cabinet completed installation of the new kitchen cabinet suite. The garage was last because it had to wait for installation of the countertop — it sits directly upon it! The garage door has a wonderful, tensioned, parallelogram action meaning one pulls out and up to open it and the door rises parallel to the upper cabinets and does not swing out. The mechanism prevents slams both during opening and closing and is brilliantly designed!
Dan installs bar-pull style handles on doors and drawers.
Dan installed all of the bar-pull style handles on the cabinet doors and drawers. The hardware is solid stainless and has a soft finish, just reflective enough to pick up color from the surrounding wood. Interestingly, we think the handles are a beautiful accent to the design complimenting the cabinets without calling much attention to themselves.
John installed most of the new moulding including tough fits.
Outside of the kitchen, trim and shoe moulding were added, completing the flooring project. Most of the moulding went up rapidly but there were those bothersome little spaces that needed a lot of measurement and attention. The finished product really looks great but, where it meets the original woodwork, calls attention to the fact that the old stuff is just too, well, ordinary. We’re also gonna need to repaint all of the walls. {ugh}
End of Day 9 – All Cabinetry is in Its Place
If the shipment comes in as promised this evening, the kitchen will see backsplash tile put into place. There will be one day of waiting as the tile adhesive sets. On Friday, the tile is to receive grout. The tile will really finish the project and, for the first time since we’ve lived in this place, the kitchen will have beautiful walls and will practically be a showplace.
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