It’s All White Now

So we left the happy couple painting on Saturday evening trying to finish the kitchen before the installers came on Monday. Well… considering that the parts of the room that would covered by the cabinets and backslash tile only needed one coat of paint, it still took from 8pm until 2am for Mr. & Mrs., R to finish the priming - not the two hours Mr. R estimated. Why, who knows? We worked and didn’t mess around but that’s how long it took. Which meant we had to do the areas that needed a second coat on Sunday afternoon.
However, it did mean we were ready for Mr. Installer the next day (well except for that little matter about not having the sink unit cabinet which Mr. R had to drive off and get so work could continue).
Prior to installation day, Mr. Installer had come round and gone through each side of the kitchen, inch by inch to ensure that we had calculated our cabinets and fillers correctly.
It isn’t always possible to have each cabinet butt up next to each other because of things like sinks, dishwashers, fridges, changes in ceiling heights etc. all of which we had. Also the length of each wall won’t add up nicely to the exact number of cabinets, another reason for having fillers in between or at the end. We also had our little custom peninsula, which Mr. R had designed for the watching of education and mind-altering (in a good way) videos or DVD or whatever the latest system is.
So finally the day had come. The walls were painted, the cabinets were (mostly) here and so were Mr. Installer and his trusty cabinet putter together assistant.

Since seeing is believing for many people, here is the kitchen installation mostly in pictures.


There’s lots of measuring to do to make sure that everything is lined up and put in correctly so you don’t get a problem several feet and many cabinets later.


It is fun to see it slowly come together.




It’s really beginning to take shape.



Cutting the peninsula counter top was tricky as there was only one chance to do it or we needed to buy another piece.

Microwave in place.


Counters in place. The sponge was taped in place to prevent Mr. Installer banging his head again.

Counters look good.


Sink just sitting on the unit for now as it needs a dishwasher drain hole drilled in it. IKEA will replace the sink if their authorized driller does the work and the sink cracks. But not if anyone else does it. Mr. Sink Driller can’t come till the next day.

Love that bookcase.


Love that too.



Because the kitchen itself has no windows, we thought these glass doors would create a window effect to some extent.


The wall space on the end is to accommodate Mrs. Remodel’s artwork.


Love it, Love it, Love it.


A successful drill job.

As you can see, Mrs. Remodel chose the single sink bowl unit. This is the type of sink that Mrs. R grew up with and wanted again. Mrs. R doesn’t like the lack of room she finds when trying to wash pots in the sink and didn’t want a huge sink in a small kitchen space.

The installation took about four days and over all we were very happy with the experience. I’m sure Mr. Installer thought that Mr. Remodel hovered a little too much but he would had done a couple of things wrongly if Mr. R had not pointed them out. We wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Mr. Installer and Chief Mr. Installer’s company.

After watching all that work going on, I’m pooped so we’ll leave the remainder till next time.