Cabinets and other delightful things!

What a week of progress!  Merlin arrived at 7 Monday morning and flashed up a quick coat of wengai.



The magician at work.

 Then, a bit later that morning, the muscle from Kitchen Technician showed up with the cabinets.

By and by we had a lot of cabinets sitting around. 

At a civilized hour, master installer Bill arrived, and over the course of the week he installed all of the cabinets.  Yahoo!



Bill's drill.

Bill has a very clever device for putting and holding the upper cabinets in place:  left and right sides raise independently, and it also moves right/left and front/back.



Is this gorgeous or what?  The uppers are maple, the lowers alder.

Meanwhile, Duncan got all of the floorboard and quarter-round cut, with the former installed and the latter sitting in place so that it can be painted and then nailed in. 

And Zeke designed and built doors for the new washer/dryer closet.

Not painted yet, obviously, but Merlin did come by and paint the inside of the closet.  The W/D are scheduled to be delivered on Wednesday.  Will be nice having in-house laundry!

The countertop is also scheduled for Wednesday.  It could possibly work out that by next Friday we have those ever-popular kitchen luxuries known as the sink and the stove.  Heck, maybe we'll even move the fridge out of the dining room, and the dishwasher out of the living room.  Won't recognize the place!

We're still struggling with decisions about the tile for the backsplash, some of the lights, and knobs.  Ah, to have such challenges!