Kitchen Nightmares: Somerville Edition

Score one for Kitchen Interiors and Plain & Fancy.  The delivery truck arrived over an hour early today and within about a half hour all of our new cabinets had been unloaded into our cleared-out dining room and hallway.

At about 10:15am, a giant semi pulled up our street with a Kitchen Interiors van just ahead of it.  This truck looked absolutely HUGE on our little city street.  In fact, with the snow and lack of parking in front of the house, it completely blocked traffic up our street for the length of the delivery.  A Somerville public works truck was among the several frustrated motorists who couldn’t make it past.  We apologize to them for the inconvenience, but to be fair, there was a way around using other side streets.

Enormous delivery truck

At one point a police car came by with its sirens on and I thought we were in trouble.  I had flashbacks to January 2005, when we moved to this place just after two huge snowstorms.  Our moving truck blocked Anne’s street in Cambridge, and several times it had to circle the block in the middle of loading just to let other cars or Cambridge police officers pass.

Blocking the entire street

Now the dining room is literally packed wall to wall with cabinets.  The two tallest cabinets, the pantry and oven units, are blocking the front hallway.  We can’t get to the basement or downstairs bathroom at all, at least until the plastic separating the dining room from the kitchen is removed and we can come around from the other side.

Dining room not so empty any more

None shall pass

A very tall pantry

The good news is that the delivery happened on time and the cabinets look amazing.  The bad news is that because we’re a couple of days behind and this is Christmas week, they won’t start to go up until this weekend at the earliest.  Most of the work won’t happen until next week.  Not a huge deal, but it does mean that they’ll be taking up lots of space for longer.

cabinets