It’s beginning to look a lot like a kitchen! We have running water and a dishwasher today, not to mention doors and drawers. No handles yet and a few fronts left to install on this side, but you won’t hear any complaints form me tonight!
Archive for March, 2008
Some things we have long suspected and only recently confirmed:
Published by March 20th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments1. The walls in the kitchen are neither flat nor perpendicular to the floor.
2. The non-flatness and non-squareness of the walls vary wildly across any given foot of wall space.
3. The corners where the walls meet are not square. Not even close.
4. The people who installed the dishwasher (most likely the same ones who installed the range hood) were CRAZY and wanted to die. When Will’s parents removed the dishwasher, they found that it was sitting atop some folded-up newspaper, presumably to make it level. It was rather wet under there, and the dishwasher had somehow melted part of the old-old vinyl floor. Most horrifyingly, the installers had stuffed an old crew sock into the gap between the electrical wiring and the plaster wall (so as to prevent mice from getting in?!?). There were other choice finds, but I will save them for another post.
5. Thomas is cute and helpful:
We have been making beaucoup d’progress in the last few days, so here are some photos from the last few weeks that should catch you up:
I don’t have great wide-angle photos of the stove-side of the kitchen right now, but to give you an idea of how far we’ve come…
Here’s the wall as we were in the process of removing the horrible residue behind the huge tile backsplash. It sort of looks like we massacred some sort of orange-blooded creature, but really that’s just the citrus-strip goo doing its magic:
The oven (and half of our other kitchen stuff), meanwhile, had for many weeks been happily residing out in our livingroom, where the table is supposed to be:
But it has finally come home to its true place, next to the residue-free, freshly-painted and safely-electrified kitchen wall:
Meanwhile, over on the sink side of the room, here is Will’s mom pondering the giant bow in the wall underneath the sink. Structural difficulties notwithstanding, she did a lot of brilliant patching work to repair damage from the old countertop and tile backsplash.
Here, a couple of days later, are the installed cabinet-carcasses (huzzah!). Countertops should happen sometime this weekend and the plumber will install the sink next Tuesday (mega-huzzah!).
And finally, a look from the opposite side of the kitchen, showing most of what’s been installed, including the topmost doors on the high cabinets.
Words cannot express how happy I am about these developments. More posts soon…
