OLD pics

Before I get some "glam shots" up of the new kitchen and bath (we're still touching up paint!), I thought I'd unearth some pics we took before we bought the house! Here's the ORIGINAL kitchen/bath look. Why did we not just turn and run you ask? It's all about the house's vibe.

Appliances In!

Sorry for the lag in posts. We had a couple days of no work, while the contractor/carpenter tried to figure out where the missing bracket for the microwave was- guess what- it was ON THE MICROWAVE which Erik and I discovered when we took the whole thing out of the box. Seriously.
So all appliances are in, and we are effectively done. We still need to do some painting. When all is complete I will post "glamour shots."
Oh- this is a picture of the first meal I made with the stove back in its place.

We have a stove!!!

All is right with the world- I can cook dinner tonight!!! WOHOOO!! We called in the cavalry (in the form of another plumbing service we've used in the past) and a couple hundred dollars and an hour or so later, we are cookin' with gas!! Yippeee!!!

Corian and cabinets finished

We had a pretty productive day yesterday. The Corian guy came back and put in the shelf on the halfwall, which looks great. The two additional cabinets we ordered came in, so we have another wall cabinet and another base cabinet. The layout looks much more finished/polished/deliberate now. The electrician's assistant was also here and fixed the dishwasher plug so it was out of the way and the Corian person drilled the appropriate holes for the clips to hold the dishwasher in place.
The stove hasn't been fixed yet- the plumber did track down the part, but apparently he's really busy at the moment and not sure when he'll get back here... ugh... we're so close, but without the stove it doesn't seem like much of a kitchen.

Hardware

We got most of the new hardware on the cabinets today. Turns out the drawers in the ktichen are slightly thicker than the doors, so we need longer screws for the drawers- it's never easy! The bathroom hardware apparently came with slightly longer screws, so that went fine. The tub is fully caulked and mudded and the rest of the bathroom is patched, so we just need to do touch up painting in there, plus hooking up the exhaust fan to the ducting and the bathroom is done!

Plumbing excitement

We have goods news and bad news: the good news is we have a toilet, bathroom sinks, tutb and shower fixtures, and a dishwasher... yeay!!! The bad news is, the dishwasher isn't 100% installed because the electrician happened to put the outlet right in a spot where the plug gets stuck on a piece of the dishwasher so it can't slide back all the way, so the outlet needs to be moved, but the dishwasher is currently functioning. The other bad news is that we don't have our stove hooked up. The plumber found a leak in the fixture between the pipe and where it connects to the stove. The plumber doesn't use the same type of pipe and fixture, so he couldn't fix it right away. His distributer doesn't have that type either. We are currently in the process of tracking down this part. Who knew there were so many options in gas piping?
On carpentry news- we have closet doors (although they still need a little adjusting), and some trim work was done yesterday too. Today we have our usual guy back and he's just running down the laundry list of finishing work.

Lights, switches and plugs, oh my!

Our electricians were here this morning (we love them for coming on a Sunday). We got our over the sink recessed light put in, all the trim for the recessed lights on, the undercabinet lights installed, the wall sconces in the bathroom installed, the fan/light in the bathroom put in, and a whole bunch of plugs and switches. The kitchen has more plugs and switches than a NASA control room!

It's really exciting. They will have to come back with more cover plates (seriously, we have a ton, they were not prepared), and to put in the baseboard heater in the bathroom which the contractor hasn't bought yet.

Oh, and they also replaced the last plug and switch from the original construction- man, that just shouldn't have had electricity hooked up to it- I took a picture of them because they were so gross.



Tomorrow the plumber is back to hook up our NEW dishwasher and the stove and toilet. Wohooooo!!!