First round of kitchen cabinets

Another weekend of kitchen. It feels like it'll never end. Here we are with everything laid out in order. It's good to get it all in there before you start making it permanent. This gives you an idea about adjustments.

What these pictures don't tell you is that we spent the first 5 hours jacking up the right corner of that far wall. It was off about 1 1/4 inches. I guess the problem is someone before us chopped the rim joist to add our laundry room door. Of course, no one bothered to replace it with support. So we jacked it up and threw 2x4s on top of the foundation. Needless to say, we have some cracks in our laundry room (to the right). TIP: Use a box knife to score around all your sheetrock corners, which allows for some flex. We also removed 3 of the 4 screws holding in the new window. We noticed a lot of movement in the hardwood floor. There's about a 1/4 inch gap between the first and second board along that wall. No biggie though. Except you can't open that old laundry room door. We'll tackle that this summer.


Everything turned out pretty well, except the cabinet company measured one upper cabinet incorrectly. The current one is 15 3/4 wide and we need it to be 14 1/2. Not sure how the mistake was made, but it was. Also, we have a taller than standard ceiling and our cabinets were made the standard 42 inches tall (why, I don't know). So that means our back splash would have to be more than 18 inches (standard).


Well it gets screwed up because we have one cabinet that sits on the counter. So that means it's about 4 inches shorter than the ceiling.....THE CROWN MOLDING DOESN'T FIT. So Spencer Cabinets in Monroe, WA says they're currently correcting the situation. We should have the new cabinets by Saturday, when the uppers will be installed. ((the messed up cabinet is that one in the middle sitting on the counter top, with the blue tape))


We got the plywood counter tops on. It feels like a kitchen with those on. I'm ready to stain them and shine 'em up.


Next up: the floor. We replaced the subfloor where the heat register was. The floor guys comes Monday morning. Obviously, that has passed. I will take pictures tomorrow when it's all dry....and then write about it. Let's just say it stinks a little in here.