Kitchen Cabinets and Appliances

Okay, the cabinet are gorgeous I can’t tell you how pleased I am with the results of all of Kenny and Mark (Beech’s) hard work.

Just let me start with the fact that the Cabinets were delivered in early July it is now early September and we are finally done, I say we like I had anything to do with the actual work, I crack myself up!

First things first, Kenny and I had decided to hire Lowes to install the cabinets upon the completion of the tiling in the kitchen, laundry room. I went away just after the delivery, I was gone less than 48 hours when Kenny proudly announced to me, “I have about 50% of the upper cabinets installed, they look great!” Yes, Kenny couldn’t leave well enough alone and let anyone do work in the house. Now the truth is it is best he installed them as will become clear as this story goes forward.

Lowes, made mistakes in the measuring and in the concept of the planning and just plain ordered/shipped the wrong cabinets. This is to be expected. So Kenny had to make a lot of changes as he installed. One issue was that the pass though part of the kitchen was made smaller and in theory that was fine to accommodate all the new features of the kitchen design, in reality, yeah no way. It looked ridiculous.

Then once they had all the appliances arrived, alas more problems, bet you didn’t see that coming right? First the cabinet that surrounded the Fridge was the wrong size (cabinet depth not true depth) problem! The under mount ovens did not fit into their cabinets, problem! The Microwave was a countertop model not a mounted one, problem! So if a cabinet installer had been hired they would have had to stop and start and redo so many things it would not have been cost effective and Kenny would have done so much of the correction that he would have been insane.

Now as many of you know I am so ready to move in and get out of our little apartment and I am not always patient with this process, that said, I am in awe of my husband’s talents. I have a professional kitchen with a huge cook top (he picked out), 2 full 30” convection ovens, a huge incredible refrigerator (his choice), and a Miele dishwasher! What woman in her right mind (not that I have been accused of being in my right mind) wouldn’t absolutely love this!!! And yes I do love it!

I can’t wait for all of you to see it. Hopefully Kenny will let me post a few photos now that this stage is complete. If he still doesn't want me to post any maybe we should have a wine and cheese type gathering up there?

That’s the latest! Hope to have more updates for you soon.