Cabinet Minister

All last week was kitchen cabinet week. Roy and Dino were here every day installing cabinets. The cabinets themselves were made in Canada and got delivered a few weeks ago. We've been storing them in the garage until this week. Roy and Dino haul them upstairs one by one.

The two corner units, in particular, were a problem. They're heavy, for starters. But they barely fit through the door, with maybe a half-inch to spare. I don't know what they would have done if they hadn't fit--open up a window?


Naturally, none of the walls are straight. Even though all the plaster is new, you can't fix hundred-year-old studs. There's a bit of a wow along one wall, for example, that confounded Roy's attempts to line up the cabinets. In the end, he had to remove it and change the shims to get everything to line up. No problem; he likes to sing while he works.

Now that most of the cabinets are in, the room is looking pretty pale and colorless. The plaster is pale, the cabinets are pale, and the doors and drawer fronts are pale ("bone"). It'll get better when the chocolate brown countertop and knobs go on. We're reusing the old tarnished brass knobs from the original kitchen cabinets and supplementing them with some new knobs that look about the same. Kathy plans to paint the walls green, and that'll add some color to the room, too.


The appliances arrive on Monday, so we're almost ready to start thinking about cooking again.