Cabinets are Painted and Counters are Installed!
On May 16th we stopped by the house to drop somethings off and saw that the painter had already masked all the cabinets off to get ready for painting them this week.
Pepper was pretty happy to see the progress - LOL. In this photo you can also see the floor prep for the new LVT flooring has started and they are going to start laying the flooring after the cabinets are painted.
So you can imagine my happiness when I returned a few days later... not only are the cabinets painted, but the counters were installed on Friday too! Well the cabinet doors are back in the painter's shop still, but the parts attached to the house are done.
Here's the Kitchen:
Originally Brett designed the kitchen to have a main sink and a "bar sink" and I have to admit I was skeptical at first. Who needs 2 sinks? After questioning the 2 sinks, the 2020 shutdown hit. During all that time spent at home there were numerous times where we either wanted to wash hands, dishes, or something and kept getting in each other's way at the former single kitchen sink. This started a thing where when we were in each other's way at the sink we would say, "2 sinks!" Well... now we have 2 SINKS!! Each are single compartment with a disposal. The one on the island is 32" wide, and the one under the window is 25" wide. The 3 holes are for the: 1. Faucet 2: Dish Soap Dispenser 3: Hand Soap Dispenser
Also above you can see my new window sill - I had them make it out of scrap counter quartz material.
OMG! We have a big 36" gas cooktop now!
Bath 1:
I am loving these newly blue cabinets!! That color is Indigo Batik (SW 7602). It's awesome to see the bathroom with the countertop quartz installed! We also used the quartz material as a 4" tall back splash, bench top (not yet installed), window sill, and trim for the pony wall / shower curb. Ohh you can see my custom hairdryer /hot tools drawer below my sink there on the left...
Above you can see that window sill, with a peek at the corner of the upper cabinet we installed over the future toilet location.
Inside the shower I noticed that the pony wall top piece was overhanging the vertical trim, so I mentioned this to the installers. It was important because we are going to be installing a glass partition here to make the shower water tight. I was really happy to see it fixed the next day.
Bath 2:
Our second bath is coming along nicely too. Here's the painted cabinets, counter and sink installed.
I'm very excited by all the storage in the house. We have this quite spacious linen cabinet in the bathroom and it only used about 4 square feet of space. Again in this bathroom we used the quarts for the counter, 4" backsplash, window sill, bench top, and niche shelves.
Here's how the tub/shower is coming in that room. We have the textured tile on the long wall with the flat tile at the ends of the tub and on the bench. We are using the blue glass tile to make a stipe up the right side corner and are using the deep recess for a shower niche to store shampoo and stuff. This area was a strange unused corner of the floor plan so we decided to make a deep shower niche out of it. Now that the bench top is in and the niche shelves are cut, they can finish tiling this shower.
