What a week! Floor in, cabinets up and the temporary wall came down!
Starting Friday night, Abe and I started to tackled the pile of 150 boxes. Come hell or high water, we had to have the base cabinets in place for Monday, when a company was coming to template the countertops. The cabinet building went smoother than we both thought, just plugged away Friday night and all day on the rainy Saturday. I'd say we spent as much time installing and levelling the bars as we did building a lot of the boxes. Beyond the bar, the main pressure points were around securing the island boxes to the floor, building a custom unit, and the variety of drawers. No, actually the big pressure point for me was not having downstairs water for six days - as you'd expect, it is not fun washing dishes in the bathtub. And a big thanks to all the folks out there who post how-to videos on youtube , filling in the many mini-details hidden in the ikea instructions! We were good to go by Sunday. Monday am I got a call around 7:30am to say the wall was coming down that day! Not expected but yahoo! If you remember, we've had a temporary wall in the middle of the dining room keeping the construction work separate from our living area. It's been pretty scrunched since February, not able to have people over. Within two hours the wall came down and now our place feels like a palace. So much more space and also light. It's wonderful! Our old fridge and stove are out of the dining room and in the kitchen, and temporary sink in place. So here we sit, wall down, cabinets up, few doors up, countertop templated, and using the future floor tiles and waste plywood for counter in the mean time. The bathroom is still a hot mess, no washing machine, lots of finishing work to be done everywhere but so nice to have the open space.
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