First wall cabinets hung, almost everything else laid out
Happy New Year!
The kitchen is really starting to take shape. We got back from our night in Stowe and found that the wall cabinets in the sink corner had been hung, and almost all the other cabinets are sitting in place (or close to it) in the kitchen.
It looks like George decided to start building from the sink corner, which has a big cabinet piece where the sink will go diagonally. To the right is a regular cabinet and drawer, and to the left is a small vertical cabinet for storing cutting boards, pizza stones, etc. - flat things that can be stored vertically. That cabinet provides some standing space between the sink and the dishwasher, which will be just to the left of it.
Above all of that, wall cabinets extend as far as tolerable toward the corner, and a set of shallower shelves take over and extend all the way into the corner itself. The pendant lamp will hang down in front of the shelves directly above the sink. We just have to figure out how far down the lamp should hang; we envisioned the shelves as being primarily decorative, so it’ll be ok that the light ends up directly in front of them. We’ll just work it into whatever we decide to put there.
Wall cabinets and corner sink unit
The large pantry cabinet which was blocking our hallway is also in place in the corner next to the door. It has three large drawers on the bottom and plenty of space for food on the top.
Pantry cabinet between door and window
Everything’s being built to a 96-inch design height, so the pantry and oven cabinets are each 8 feet tall. All of the wall cabinets go up to 8 feet off the floor as well. That should give us a ridiculous amount of storage, which we will proceed to fill within a couple of months.
With crown molding, the upper cabinets will touch the lower ceiling
Other pieces have been moved into place and unwrapped:
The full cooktop/vent hood assembly
Window (cat) seat with cat food and dish drawers
More cabinet work is scheduled to be done tomorrow. All of our appliances should arrive tomorrow afternoon as well. They get to live in the dining room while cabinet installation is finished.
This weekend we plan to get our cabinet hardware, faucet, and maybe the pendant lamp. These are the last visual/functional elements we haven’t decided on and it’s getting to be that time. Whee!
Looks like you’ll have some space behind that top molding. I suggest you put a time capsule in there. Oooh. Or a secret compartment to stash your evil plans.
@DMac
It occurred to me after we closed up the walls that a time capsule would have been a great thing to stash there.