It's the little things...

Well this is embarrassing. One year to the day since the last post.  We just got caught up with other things. We were also waiting for a friend to help with the tile. I can't believe what a difference the tile has made. It looks like we have a kitchen re-do now.

I have also been sitting on those Ikea Asker containers for a year and a half. So long that they don't even sell them anymore.

This project was all my procrastinating. I wanted a coat rack on this wall by the door and a friend suggested a solar system to go with our spacey kitchen. I found the Earth knob at a craft store and was sold on the idea. I drew the lines on the wall using this method. 

I could only find eight knobs that looked like planets. I was going to go against Neil Degrasse Tyson and include Pluto, but it seems it was not in the stars for me.

Countertops and floors

Hooray! The countertops are finally in. No more boards balanced across the cabinets.

We also have our new cork floor in as well.

The lesson today is that slat flooring cannot be turned on 90 degree angles.

My original floor design was sort of a basket weave. Since we learned that flooring all has to go the same direction, our pattern is now an Atari Breakout inspired design.

Bye bye fugly floor!

We Have Cabinets!

We finally have all of the cabinets in with doors on them.

Oh except for the one over the fridge. We have to cut that one shorter so we can put new floor in underneath the fridge.

This week's task is to get the countertop ordered.

Pretty cabinets all in a row.

For the new kitchen, I wanted a lot of space between the counter and the wall cabinet, so I chose the Akurum horizontal model. My plan was to have a shelf underneath the cabinet for my pretty dishes. I've always liked open shelves and have been accumulating nicer dishes for this reason.

In order to accommodate my storage needs and fit the space, I mixed 3 of these horizontal cabinets with the microwave cabinet and the tall pantry. You are given a handy long strip of wall bracket for your cabinets to hang from. However, for some unknown reason different cabinets have the holes at different heights. The 3 vertical ones all went up together nicely, but we had to cut the bracket and lower it for the microwave cabinet. Same for the pantry. The bracket is easy to cut, but some care had to be used since you want to screw the it into a stud.

Also you can see we had to cut the cabinet to accommodate the stove vent. (These vents will prove to be pesky as you will see with the sink install.) The cabinet was easy to cut, so not much of a problem there. The stove ended up moving over a few inches, so we went with flexy pipe instead of moving the vent over as well.