I had lunch today with Paul. He is my cousin Liane’s husband. We lost Liane almost 2 years ago.
Tuesday the 29th would have been her 52nd birthday. We had lunch and got caught up. We talked about Liane. The loss is still great.
Archive for July, 2008
The granite guy came and measured the counter tops. That means we should have granite installed in 2 weeks. Maybe by the time I get back from Greece they will be done?
The granite we picked is called Bianco Antico. Here’s a picture of it. I think it is lighter than it looks in the picture. It should go well with our dark cabinets. All the design people think it’s a perfect match. We’ll see.
It’s my brother Peter’s birthday today. Happy 49th birthday!
Next year is the big 50!
Joe is back. He has the cut down cabinets, the glass door and the crown moulding. He gets to work installing everything.
He gets the base cabinets installed. He gets the kick plate on the island finished. It looks perfect. He gets a bit of the crown moulding done.
There is so much to do though. He won’t finish today.
Twice in one week? Sometimes that happens.
Peter & Kathy missed last week’s family get together so we did it again. We had hoped that the kitchen would be operational by now but it wasn’t. We had no time to prepare so we opted for pizza this time.
It is Peter’s birthday on Tuesday. We celebrated with a cake.
Here’s a shot of the gang.
More pictures here: http://briangarson.com/
The last coat went on yesterday. The floors are still too sticky today. It’s so humid out that they just aren’t drying fast.
We turn the air conditioning on and that seems to help but we won’t be moving anything back.
I’m off to get new blinds for the patio door. We can’t use our old curtains (nor do we want to) because the cabinet doors bump into the hardware.
There is so much detail to finish. It will take a while before this is really all done.
The guy’s are back to finish the installation. I doubt they’ll get it done today.
They work on the island kick and make some wonderful suggestions to make it look it’s best.
The crown moulding they sent is wrong. It has the profile we want but they ordered one that sits on top of cabinets instead of mounts to the side of it. Joe says they can cut them back at the warehouse. I’m surprised by the number of problems we are encountering with this.
So they don’t finish today. There is just too much to do and pieces to be remade so they’ll be back on Monday.
I had really hoped they would be done today since the granite guy is coming to measure. Now we have to reschedule him and we can’t put the kitchen back in place.
The floor guy comes to give the floor it’s last coat and polish. No walking on it for at least 24 hours.
I can’t wait for this to be over.
The kitchen cabinets are being installed today! I’m working from home to be available for any issues that might arise and because I can’t wait to see how it all looks.
Joe & Joe Jr. (yes his son) are here to do the installation. They are very nice and meticulous. I leave them for a while as they measure and mark and measure.
It doesn’t take long before a problem occurs. The cabinet over the refrigerator is too wide. It’s a 36″ cabinet when it should be a 33″ one. We look at the drawings and he tells us that a 36″ was ordered. He’ll cut the cabinet down but we’ll need new doors.
Then they put the island in place. They call me up to see how it all fits.
Something is wrong. It’s too tight around the island. There isn’t enough space. I was sure I had more room around than that.
I start measuring with them. Then I point to the base cabinets along the wall. These are supposed to be 18″ in depth not 24″. There’s the 6″ that makes this too tight.
After a few phone calls they agree to take the cabinets back and have them cut down to 18″.
We finally agree on the island placement and they put those in place.
By the end of the day he has all the upper cabinets installed. One glass door is missing and one regular door is missing. We don’t know why, they just were not delivered.
He plans to finish tomorrow.
Hmmm, seems like a lot of work left to be done to me?
Dave and Ruby had us over for dinner tonight. Another “Garage Kitchen” rescue from caring people.
We had Dave’s famous “Maple glazed cedar planked salmon”. It was delicious!
I’ve worked with Dave for over 10 years now. He’s been a good work buddy.
He and Ruby are definitely at the top of the list for an invite once we have our kitchen back.
Got the word today that our kitchen cabinets will be delivered tomorrow and installed on Thursday. Whew! That will be a big relief.
On Friday the floor guy will come back and do the finishing coat and polish the floors.
I’ll be able to start moving the kitchen back on Saturday. We still have a couple of weeks before we get our granite counters though so it’s not a finished product by any means.
Hopefully we can get a sink working in the meantime.