Thankful for paint

This is the first coat in our kitchen/family room.  This is a big room that seemed daunting.  This is a huge step forward!

It's not visible in the picture, but the sheen of the paint transitions at that corner.  Satin in the kitchen to be more resilient and eggshell in the family room area for less glare near a TV.

Thanks to our Blog readers

This is the week of Thanksgiving, so I want to blog about the things I'm thankful for.  Thank you to the readers of this blog.  We don't have many followers, but our avid readers are all truly lovely people.  At times this project seems crazy and overwhelming, but then someone will mention something about our blog.  Having your support helps.  Thank you!

One of our blog readers asked about our sink.  We learned in this process that kitchen cabinets are 24 inches deep and bathroom cabinets are 21 inches deep.  In the Snack Bar (aka mini-kitchen) we got vanity depth cabinets to fit the counter behind a corner framed to hide our duct work.  Then we tried to find a kitchen sink to fit.  Every kitchen sink is designed to fit in 24" deep cabinets.  We almost gave up.   Then I found a website (efaucet.com) that let's you search by sink "length" which is the left right distance.  There are sinks designed as bar sinks or second sinks that are very narrow.  I was fortunate that I had a 27 inch wide cabinet - just a little wider than 24 inches.  So I decided to turn the sink 90 degrees wrhom what was intended.  I subtracted 3 inches for the faucet and searched for sinks that would fit in an 18 inch wide cabinet.  There weren't many.  That's a narrow cabinet.  But there were some.  And a few are simetrical.  So we found a deep kitchen worthy sink. 

Ian has temporarily mounted it in a piece of scrap lumber to let us use it until the real counters are installed.  The sink is actually deeper and nearly as wide as our utility sink.  It fits our largest pots.  I'm excited about having a real kitchen again!

Rigid cabinets

Well, after far too long working on them the snack bar cabinets are attached and in their final location. On Friday the sink came. It took a lot of effort to find a kitchen like sink that would fit into 21" deep cabinets. Cheryl managed to find the magic process for searching and we have a sink that will fit. Yay!

Is fall here?

The weekend temperatures did not let on that November has arrived. On the other hand evening light clearly did. I spent the weekend building and installing the backs for the snack bar cabinets. It was a lot more time consuming than I expected, but Cheryl and I are happy with the results. Now all the cabinets for the snack bar have a new bottom and back that makes the concrete stoop disappear without looking too strange. Next weekend will be installing them.

Hiding the Ledge

All Four Cabinets Set in Place

While I was working on the cabinets, Cheryl did a huge amount of clean up around the house. She also found a sink to fit the cabinets. That was a heroic effort because all the kitchen style sinks are designed to fit 24" deep cabinets. The cabinets we used are 21" deep.