Kitchen Remodel Day 21

And the answer is...

Yes! 

All the china fits in the glass cabinet.  

Saul land Saul Jr. installed the new cabinet to the left of the sink.

And the new little cabinet to the left of the stove!

See you next year!!!

Kitchen Remodel Day 20

Call it persistence.



Five phone calls to the "floor guy" explaining that the seam in the flooring isn't right.

AND, there's a new lump on the bathroom threshold.

Oh, by the way, we're leaving in 3 days.

All I do is leave a message.

The store opens at 10.  I left a message there.

Or I can call his cell phone direct.  And leave a message there.

Well, I'd just decided it was WAY past lunchtime, when I hear a rap, rap, rap, rap at the front door.

It's the floor guys!

Now the seam is fixed.

Notice the pile of "things to be installed" in the corner is getting smaller.

And the quarter round is installed.

They used a lot more glue, and the bathroom threshold seems to be fixed.

They were here about a half hour.

Amazing.

Maybe I should track "elapsed days".

I haven't heard from the stove guy.

This is the way I cook on my stovetop because my burner grates are getting new porcelain.

Since October 11th.

Good thing I've learned how to cook rice in the microwave!

My oven doesn't work because the oven knob is getting refurbished.

Hence the toaster oven in the pass through.

Notice the pineapple/mandarin orange arrangement in the window.

My wonderful neighbor brought it over as a gluten-free Christmas gift!

To be eaten immediately, as the pineapple was very ripe.

Merry Christmas!

Kitchen Remodel Day 19

A productive day!

 Saul and Saul Jr. were here before 10! 

Saul got Jr. going, and then he left to go do some errands.  But he came back, and they both worked til 5!

Jr. seems to be the cabinet lights guy.  Aren't they pretty! 

They are all finished underneath with a board, so one more piece of molding is necessary to finish them off.



Jr. also installed the glass in the far cabinet doors, and glass shelves in that unit.

Regular shelves were installed in the closer unit.


We don't like the latches he installed on the cupboard, so he is going to replace them with magnets. 
 
These require a real tug to get them open.

Jr. worked a long time installing the slides for the 3 drawers.  There is still one drawer not installed.

They slide really nice, and close themselves the last 3 inches or so.

The silverware drawer is so huge we had to go get a new drawer organizer!

When Saul showed back up, he worked and worked on the doors under the sink. 

He was very upset with how they fit. 

Can you see what he was upset about?

He says it's because the walls aren't square. 

Personally, I don't think it's a big deal.  (The gap isn't even all the way around.)

One more receptacle got a cover plate and is activated, so now there is a microwave AND a coffee maker!

Time to start moving things back into the cupboards!

Kitchen Remodel Day 18

Southern California got rain on Thursday! 

We really need it, there's been a drought, you know. 

However, it means the paint didn't dry on the pieces Saul painted for us, so he was not able to come on Thursday.

On Friday, both he and Saul, Jr. showed up with drawers, kick board, shelves, glass, but no time to work on it!

So they just piled it in the corner, promising to come back tomorrow.

Jr. got one electrical receptacle working, so I could move the microwave back into the kitchen!

Along with a few other things.

Kitchen Remodel Day 17 - I lost track of how many Elapsed Days ...

From:  Saul
To:    Jerry
Date:  Friday, December 5, 2014

Hi jerry
I'm sorry we're having problems in another job and it backed up my schedule.  And some of your doors came wrong size.  they are rebuilding them right now.  So I'm gonna be a minimum of another week to complete your job.  I'm sorry for your inconvenience.  I wanted to tell you earlier but you were out of town.  If I get the doors today I'll probably stop by tomorrow.  If not on Monday around 10 a.m.  Thank you.

So, Friday the 5th he says he might be by tomorrow the 6th?  or Monday the 8th?  Or Monday the 15th?  He didn't say WHICH Monday.  And he didn't show yesterday, so I figured he meant the 15th.  So I got up, decided to check on my stove parts and take a trip to Pasadena.  If he's not going to be here this week, I better get stuff done because I won't be able to next week. 

First I better take Bird for a walk, and guess who shows up???

Woohoo!  How I have one upper cabinet. 

With knobs!

Notice it actually clears the blades of the fan!

However, nobody ever said anything about being able to actually open the door...

It's OK.  It just barely bumps.

They used a little jack to hold the cabinet up while they attached it.

The cabinet goes all the way to the far window.

They also got one plug working, so the microwave moved back to it's new home.

They brought my 3 new drawers...

which I immediately found stuff to put in them.

I gave up on "finished", and I'm starting to move stuff back in as I can.

Here's my new lazy Susan all installed.  Now I need to figure out what to put in it!

Each shelf turns independently.

Saul might be back Thursday with the shelves for the cupboards, and the glass for the doors.

Or if he doesn't make it Thursday, he'll try for Saturday...

Chad the floor guy might be by tomorrow...

Sunday I was able to get the walls painted, and yesterday I got the new border installed.  Too bad I was about 3 feet short! 

I hate when that happens!

So I ordered one more roll.  Then woke up in the middle of the night realizing I ordered the wrong color!  I called and got it canceled before it shipped, and reordered the correct color.

Before I started moving stuff into the cupboards, first they had to be cleaned, and then I decided to patch the contact paper where Bird has chewed off little teensy bits. 

But the contact paper scraps I have are not the same pattern! 

When I redid the upper cabinets I couldn't match the existing paper, so I have a similar but different pattern.  So instead of patching, I have to redo the entire shelf.

At least I had enough.

I'll save the scraps for the next time Bird takes a bite.

Now I can start moving stuff back in.

And I did call the stove guy in Pasadena.  He might have things ready the end of the week.  This is December 9; I took them to him October 11.

I guess these things just take awhile.