1.24.2020

It was a fun day today with even more pieces of my kitchen coming together!

This morning, I emptied out our temporary pantry shelves in anticipation of bringing up the next cabinet!

Jim worked on getting the rest of the drawer glides on and everything fit in the cabinet - beautiful!

In the kitchen, he brought up the stove to overlap the countertop.  There is a required 1/2" space to be left between the cabinet and the stove - you can see how perfectly Jim has the countertop sized so that everything is perfect!

We did discover a missing piece to the stove.  Again, you have to leave a space between the stove and the wall and the stove was supposed to have come with a filler kit to fill in that gap.  However, we don't have that piece.  We've had our appliances since before we even thought about framing the living space but Jim is meticulous about keeping parts together and magically knows where everything is - neither of us ever remember seeing this piece.  So I ended up calling Samsung and ordering it - it was way overpriced but we need it so not much other choice!

Jim next put the anchor for the stove that's required to keep it from tipping.  This meant drilling through the bamboo floor - never the easiest job.

All in place...

And moving the stove back into place.  You can see that Jim moved the temporary shelves around and it didn't take me long to get everything arranged again!

Next, we brought up the cabinet!

 Then started fastening it to the wall...

 And bringing up the drawers and getting them installed!

I am SO excited about the way the kitchen keeps getting more and more amazing!  It really looks fabulous!!  Jim brought up another piece of plywood so that I can use have counter space on top of the new cabinet.

Jim also did work on the redoing of the drawer fronts, switching from adding pull hardware to having the finger pulls.  Priming...

Painting for 1 minute and then an hour of clean up!

All done and drying...

In between all this work, Jim was interrupted by my postage meter rep having to come to the house this afternoon.  The security module on the meter needed replaced along with some other maintenance.  That's all done now - it was totally dead this morning so I had to revert to the old fashioned way of hand sealing envelopes and buying stamps to complete a fire school mailing that had to go out today.  I'm quite spoiled but when you are mailing hundreds or thousands of pieces of mail, technology sure makes life easier!

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