George's mighty underlayment job, with the two cute missing notches in left foreground.
Jon figuring out how the cabinets go (30jul).
Russell getting ready for a day of planing cabinet bases to make the base cabinets level. (What a ghastly sentence.)
Cabinets took over my foyer for a few days as Jon and Russell tried to find the ones they needed to start with. David and I found it rather annoying having to clamber through our own foyer...
A few days later (3 August), George and Jon are finishing up installation of the base cabinets.
My once-was music room and will-be dining room are their workshop.
The refrigerator's cabinet (visible mistake #1: vertical storage was supposed to be on the right) and water and electrical outlets (visible mistake #2: one of those outlets was supposed to be for the cabinet to the left).
Temporarily-visible mistake #3: Jon and I forgot that the upper cabinet to the left of the fridge would be base-cabinet depth (20 inches) instead of upper-cabinet depth (12ish inches) because it was such a useless bit of counterspace, we might as well maximize the upper-cabinet space. As a result, the location we picked for the ceiling light was too close to the wall, so George and Jon had to move the can and redo the sheetrock. What a pain!
Norton, five days after swallowing a chicken bone, scaring the bejesus out of me, and wondering why I was so obsessed with his bowel movements, was pronounced "out of the woods" by Dr. Benfatto. He was nonplussed, but I was relieved and proud of his digestive abilities. As Paul said, "Go Norton!"
Gjetost pondering my pile of New York Times. She's no doubt finished, but I often get behind. Her blue eyes are prone to red-eye, so she's a beast who's beastly hard to photograph: with no flash, both of us have to HOLD STILL!
4 August and about half of the upper cabinets are in!
The bar side of the kitchen's cabinets remain to be installed.
The peninsula's back wall's surround. The top, middle, and bottom cross-support's need to be removed before it's slipped around the sheetrocked (for fire safety) core. This is a tricky bit of cabinetry: it wraps around the side and goes a few inches toward the front to join with the drawer-base and backsplash.
Granite Guy stapled strips of paper to the base cabinets, rubber-cemented them together, and then drew borders with XX symbols for "beveled edge" and so on. He later pulled them off the cabinets, rolled them up, and carried them back to the shop for duplication. For the curve in foreground, he traced the wood on the underside of his template.
My Jonny Boy.
Still Life with Heap of Equipment.
A new Honey-Do list for George: phone cable to basement, strips above refr. cabinet, hockey pucks, install 1/2 wall panel, UC lites
Another of Jon's sketches-on-the-materials: this one seems to have something to do with the puck lights over the sink. Who knows?
Honey-Do List #3: hockey pucks: George has finished installed the puck lights at the top of the over-bar cabinet. This cabinet will have glass shelves and door-fronts and be full of stemware, so the puck-lights ought to create a nice, dramatic lighting effect.
George has removed the cross-supports, rewired the phone (see blog), and moved the peninsula's wall-surround into place.
The Evil Outlet
George also installed the puck lights over the sink. Herrell built these cabinets with a false bottom to allow for the lights and their wires--yet another detail I wouldn't have thought of. Note also that the corner shelves are too long for the cabinets: that's because flourescent undercabinet lighting and a valance in front are yet to be installed.
I'm feeling a little better about my pile of logs as of 8 August and with an 8 pound sledge and an 8 pound maul.
I've had to roll some of the unsplit hunks down from above.
Bird's-eye view of the unsplit hunks from the landing of my front stairs.
Berry close-up for my botanist friends to bicker over: black raspberries? Blackberries? Something obscure related to one of those?