Two Miracles!

Well ... I don't know if they really qualify, but over the weekend I managed to lay the last few tiles in the entryway pattern. I know that it was on my list of things to do a really long time ago, but it's actually done now (for the record, there were 5 tiles to lay - not 3 - that really explains the delay don't you think? lol). Also, on Saturday my parents and grandparents (and sister!) were up and cleaned all the excess mortar off the tiles - one step closer to grouting. Thanks guys!

While we were working on that (and some while I was napping ... shhh!) Peter put together our third cabinet box. Technically there are 7 boxes, but we're now all finished one run with an attached corner cabinet and we have one run (with a corner cabinet) left, so I'm saying we're half done those as well. The miracle in this is that we're actually progressing at a rate similar to what I thought we could - one box a day (when we actually work on this house). At this rate we should have the bottom cabinets boxed in by the end of the week and we'll be able to order our countertop - yippee! I'm assuming there will be a delay because of Christmas, but regardless we should have a countertop installed and, depending on how quickly we work on the other stuff, a working kitchen by the end of January :) I can hardly wait!

This week the goal is to finish the cabinets and get the entryway grouted. Lofty goals, but doable!

Merry Christmas :)

One down ... Six to go!

Peter was home sick yesterday, and I had a meeting last night, so no progress on the house. However, over the weekend we did manage to get one box together, and at present it is sitting on its frame in the correct location in our kitchen – it looks so pretty! I’ll have to take a picture and post it. Putting the first box together was a little frustrating – it took about 3 hours, but each one should go faster than that, and hopefully it will be less frustrating now that we have an idea of what we’re doing!

Tonight we work on the second box. Once we get that done (which should be tonight …) we’ll have the whole run of cupboards along the side wall done except the corners – not too shabby. We’ll still have the two corner cupboards to do, one small cupboard beside the dishwasher, the cupboard under the sink, and one more basic cupboard at the end of the island part of the U. Then it’s off to the countertop store and then a two-week “wait,” during which we’ll be busy sanding, staining, and finishing the cupboards, and laying tile in the remaining two bathrooms – sounds like we’ll be really bored! Lol

I called to get some quotes for putting in a subpanel in the garage today, and most of them were in the same ballpark except one, that was about half all the rest. It makes me quite suspicious, but it would be great if we could just pay that much! We’ll have to look into it some more.