Domsjo- uh oh.

We decided to go with the Domsjo farmhouse sink. This sink fits with the Akurum sink base, but you won't use the cross bars that come with the cabinet assembly. Since the Domsjo sink is so deep, it comes with metal cross bars that are installed lower than the wooden ones.

We didn't realize this when we assembled our cabinets first. The husband had attached this cabinet to one next to it and the wall before opening up the sink. We had to cut the wooden cross pieces out in order to install the metal ones.

The next issue was the space for the pipes. Since this sink sits lower, you only have 23"of height for the pipes. The old vent went into the wall too high for the new sink and we thought we might have to put all of that black pipe into the wall. Luckily the home store had a vent termination piece that fit.

So the lesson we have been learning is,"yes it saved a lot of time to assemble all of the cabinets first." However, it would have been very helpful to open the accessory pieces for each cabinet as well.

I do love this sink and am glad we went with this one instead of another stainless steel sink. This is the smaller size, but it still has a huge bowl. So I have more sink volume now than I had with the old double sink.

Kitchen demo

The first weekend, the upper cabinets were down and off to Habitat for Humanity.

The lesson here-don't give only half of your cabinets to charity. They weren't too pleased with the idea of waiting for the base cabinets. HfH wants all of the cabinets at the same time.

We just weren't able to pull out everything or get it all over to them at once.

The next weekend, I got the paint mostly done. This is the second color. The first was a grey that made me very unhappy so I went with my backup color; light blue. Much easier to paint the room without the cabinets.

We got 2 new cabinets up on the wall. We are living out of that red tub until we can get the pantry in. It's not completely primitive though. That's mac n cheese on the stovetop.

Space Age Kitchen 2

I think we've picked out our floor and back splash tile.

Now we're leaning more towards a stainless steel countertop.

Space Age Kitchen

So now that the cabinets have been chosen, I'm trying to pick out

backsplash tile, countertop, and flooring.

This is a shiny, silver tile that I think looks cool.

Recycled glass and concrete countertop.

Cork floor; Pyrite color.

I like the floor and the countertop, but not sure if I like them with the silver tile.

I really like this skinny tile, but not sure how 'spac-y' it looks.