Kitchen Cabinets

Saturday morning started out to be one of the most exciting days since the start of the flip house. The kitchen was going to come together! Chad arrived at the flip house bright and early to meet the cabinet guy who was delivering our cabinets and countertop. I showed up a little after and we started taking cabinets out of their boxes. They looked awesome!

Mom and Dad arrived a short time later to get started installing the cabinets. To work we go!

Mom looking lovely...:)

The observers...:)

After the morning had gotten going, Kyle arrived to help before going to work that evening. His help was very valuable and much appreciated!

The cabinets look absolutely great! Mom and I left the guys early afternoon so we could attend a baby shower, and all was going well. A little later, though, we discovered that there had been some issues. It's amazing how a wall can look completely straight across until you put something up next to it that is perfectly straight. Yikes! After all the lower cabinets had been installed, Dad had to shave the countertop down quite a bit to get it to rest evenly against the kitchen wall. Once that was taken care of, the countertop was on and looked great. However, another glitch was coming...

Once they moved the refrigerator into the kitchen, we discovered that it was much too deep to fit comfortably in the spot we had designated for it. Uh oh. The small cabinets and the countertop next to the fridge were virtually inaccessible with the current set up. The fridge was just much too deep. What a big lesson for us to learn - remember to account for the depth of your fridge! Chad and I have a counter-depth fridge (only the doors extend past the countertop) in our kitchen, and so we quickly forgot how standard fridges are deeper than ours.

Lucky for us, we have a relatively easy fix that will make the kitchen work and not cost us too much more money. We are going to switch around a couple cabinets and put the fridge next to the stove. It isn't our most ideal set up, but it is going to work much better than the way it currently sits. For the countertop, we will uninstall the large piece (which is really two pieces fastened together), bring it back to the manufacturer, and he will detach the two pieces at the seam, make a bigger piece to extend over the new cabinet arrangement, and attach it back on to the large piece of countertop. We will then put it back on the cabinets and hopefully have a workable kitchen. I think it will work out just fine!

Dad will be back to town Friday, weather permitting, so we will hopefully be able to see this change take affect. Thank you again to everyone who has been checking in on the blog and sending us their best wishes for our success. We appreciate it greatly! :)