Rayna's cabinets are here! - Part I
Before 8:am the delivery truck was here this morning and by the time Michael arrived, most of the cabinets were in the great room. For the most part, a lovely sight. But not without its snags...
As I suspected, things were going too smoothly not to hit a few bumps in the road. They will be fine, but I was not a happy camper this morning.
The vanity came in wrong: right width, wrong depth. Two of the pantry doors don't match anything else; the hinges were put in on the wrong side and the beautiful wood is on the inside of the door. And finally, the base with two file drawers and a junk drawer are useless because the drawers are too shallow. They should be 10" drawers but are 7" drawers - a whole saga which I won't bore you with. I was really upset because I had signed off on the plan without realizing it was for a 32" base instead of a counter height base.
Michael said not to worry, Wholesale Kitchen won't give me any grief about it, nor will Adelphi, who will replace whatever they need to. (As it turned out, it was an oversight when Mike at Wholesale Kitchen ordered them. Nonetheless, I left two hysterical messages on his phone. When he called me back, he reassured me and said he will be here tommorrow morning. The vanity is easy - he just needs another box. The file cabinet we'll have to figure out.And Adelphi will replace the doors that are inside out as well as anything that might be scratched. NO PROBLEM.
Meantime, Michael got to work because Jay from Garden State Soapstone will be here on Wed. to template. (I will post about that in a different message). When I snapped this picture,and told him I was posting it, he said if I had warned him he would have taken off his shirt and flexed his muscles. Oh well, you can't have everything.
By the time he left at 3 this afternoon, things were shaping up.
The SINK RUN: l-r, cooktop and oven, 30" 3 drawer base, 16.5 double trash pullout, sink, space for dw. The corner will be in tomorrow. Stay tuned.
THE ISLAND: l-r, 36" drawers (2 18's on the top);space for icemaker, 18" 4 drawer base.
AND - TA DA! - My personal favorite: THE PANTRY
12" deep and 87" wide, it is too beautiful to be in a kitchen. L-pantry Middle - bookcase w/ doors below - R - pantry. Oh, joy. At the last minute, we left the outlet in the wall and just put in the cabinets. Originally I wanted an outlet on one of the shelves just in case. (of what??).
But it turned out not to be centered in the middle cabinet - it was in an awkward spot - and anyway, that cherry is too gorgeous to cut a hole into. So, no electricity there. But oh, what a luxury.
I love the way the doors and drawers are book-matched (except for the two inside-out ones, of course). Tomorrow,all the lowers and some of the appliances might just be in. More pix, I am sure.
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