Week 4 was pretty quiet, what with Xmas and all, but things are rolling along again.<\/p>\n
Our kitchen cabinets arrived on the 27th, a day ahead of schedule. Karl called and told me \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We’re having a little trouble fitting things in the way we planned.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Uh oh. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I’ll be right over\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I tell him (even though I need to be at a practice for First Night in less than an hour). Fortunately, we’ve had very few moments like that.<\/p>\n
One of our design constraints has been preserving this nifty old Vent-Rite hood that came with the place. It’s 40\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 wide (to suit the original stove). We wanted our new 30\u00e2\u20ac\u009d stove centered underneath it, or nearly so, but this resulted in an extremely narrow base cabinet (5\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u201c6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) between the stove and the wall. We had approved plans that showed an open-fronted 6\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 base cabinet there.<\/p>\n
When the cabinets arrived, we discovered that the cabinet-maker had borrowed 3\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from the left of the stove and put it on the right, to make that narrow cabinet 9\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 wide. This meant that, without some modification, the left side of the stove would be almost flush with the left side of the hood\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsomething we had explicitly been trying to avoid. Either we could live with this, have one of the wall-hung cabinets remade to be narrower (allowing the hood to slide over), or have all the base cabinets remade to the original specs (there is one monolithic base cabinet left of the stove, and the narrow one right of it). Had we insisted on that, the cabinet-maker would have taken a bath on this job, and it would have pushed our schedule way off. I called Gwen to advise her of the situation and say that I was willing to live with the cabinets as-is. She decided to come over and look for herself. She was annoyed at the situation, but decided she could live with it too after seeing it.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure why the cabinet-maker made this change. He may have decided a 6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d base cabinet was a dumb idea, and wasn’t aware of our reasoning behind it. More detailed communication might have helped. All that said, the craftsmanship on these cabinets is excellent. Better than we were likely to get from any of the big cabinetry suppliers, and tailored to our kitchen’s small dimensions.<\/p>\n
Karl’s crew has made the massive boxes for the bedroom’s wall of storage. I think Karl is going to let the cabinet-maker handle the face-frames and doors, but he might be taking care of that himself.<\/p>\n
The butcher-block surface for the kitchen island arrived yesterday, and we’re still getting an estimate on the quartz surface for the main counter. Most of the baseboard trim is in place. Karl has been measuring out the built-in bookcases\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthese are in the part of the house where the foundation and framing are most askew, so those will need a little fudging to look right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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