Kitchen Update

Kristen got everything sanded up and painted. It looks real nice.

 

Building up the panels for the unit took most of the morning on Saturday. There are panels for the lower drawers, end of the bookcase and the "spice" drawer side. The first picture shows all of the pieces and the second shows them all glued up and put together. They all will need to be cut for an exact fit but we are getting closer.

Here is a picture of the bookcase panel installed. You can see that there is a small gap above and below the panel so that it matches the other side which is a drawer.

The back of the unit against the wall had to be scribed and cut prior to the final installation. Here you can see the finished product and the piece that was cut off to make it flush to the wall. You can see in the first picture the two ledger boards that the unit will attach to.

All of the lights and switches were hooked up in the unit. the top piece is still moving up and down for a while so the current connection is just through a couple wire nuts. There is a box that will end up housing all of the final connections for the lights and fan. In the first and second picture the lights are on. It is nice to have the dimmer on them so that we can adjust it down to low levels at night.

At the end of the day on Sunday we started work on the upper hood. It is planned to build the whole thing on the ground and move it up into place. Here you can see a couple of the ribs and the approximate place where it will go. We wanted to make sure that they design had plenty of room to one of the beams.

 Kristen picked up some cast iron hooks and spray painted them. They will be placed on the back of the door in the downstairs bathroom to hang towels. We had been looking for something like this for quite a while.