it's getting there..

We drove up to mom & dad's Friday night to spend Saturday working on the cabinets in preparation for moving them to the house Sunday. One small problem: we realized about 1:15 into a 1:30 drive that I forgot the paint. Whoops! Oh well.

Saturday we got up, sanded everything down, put the cabinets together, and drove to BR. We spent a good majority of the day Saturday putting the cabinets together and installing the hardware. The doors need a little adjusting to line up all the reveals perfectly and there is still glass to be bought for the top doors, but overall it looks great!

Sunday, we drove to 3 different Home Depots to get the cup pulls we wanted (each store had 2 or 3...except for the last store in BFE which had about 100,000). I finished the day off by putting the baseboard back, putting in shoe molding, caulking, and doing some touch-up painting throughout the house. What you see below is essentially finished, minus the stain on the butcher block top. Overall, I'd say quite the success. I have the best dad. ever.

update:

Kitchen Diagram

THIS is why I love my dad. Bottom half of the new cabinet.

A little home update...

nothing quite as heavy this time, I promise.

Project update actually! Projects of note: Chicken coop, Kitchen, Girls' rooms.

Chicken coop - Well, it's mostly finished but since the Christmas day chicken massacre...we now have no chickens. That's right, I finished the house a week before the last chicken was mercilessly killed. Figures. So my next step is to get the black netting tied to the top of the thing so that chickens can't fly away and other animals can't get in there and eat them once we do actually get new chickens. I'll probably do that within the next month so I can go ahead and get chickens in early spring. I'm ready for fresh eggs dammit!

Kitchen - The upper cabinets on the south wall have been up for a couple of months and we chose the hardware that we'll have throughout the kitchen. 3 different types: cup pulls for the drawers, 6" bars for most of the doors, and simple knobs for the top glass doors. With the heater on full blast, a lot of the joints in the bead board are opening up so I'll have to caulk them and re-paint at the end of winter...hopefully for the last time. We're going to m0m & dad's the weekend of the 19th so dad and I can complete the cabinets for the north wall and I can bring them back to install them. The final step in the cabinet marathon will be to replace all of the cabinet faces and doors on the existing lower cabinets and repaint the inside of all of the cabinets white. All of this mess should be done in about a month so we'll have the bones of this baby in there. If our income tax check is a good one, we'll also buy our dishwasher and new counter & backsplash. I'd like to also get the new lighting...but we'll see. Baby steps.

new cabinets on the left...newer cabinets coming to the right

Girls' rooms - Em's room will get an update with all new decorations, while the furniture and paint will remain the same. Currently it's PACKED with all the bins of baby stuff we just pulled down from the attic. We got AC's big girl room painted this past week and she spent the last two nights in the room like a true big girl! Here's to hoping she keeps it up. We picked up a couple of pieces of furniture for her big girl room pictured below. These two need a lil TLC - mostly just paint - to get them ready for the room.

Big girl's dresser. what this picture doesn't show - it's actually flesh colored *shudder

(soon to be white)

Great Mid-Century piece...also soon to be painted. This will be her pantry for her little kitchen.

Whew! That's a lot of talking. I'll stop now and hopefully have a more picture-filled update again soon.