January 13 - It's a Snow Day!!

It's been a couple weeks since my last update and we've had people here everyday but much of the progress would only be noticeable to someone who's here every day to see it. We got a new toilet installed in the downstairs bathroom. We still don't have a door on that bathroom but it's a start. But today we had a great leap forward. Today, for the first time in months, that big empty room started to finally begin to look like a kitchen. Even though it was a miserable snow storm this morning, the guys arrived with the first of our cabinets.

Even 15 cms of snow couldn't stop the guys from arriving with the first of our cabinets this morning. They were here before I even had a chance to get the snow cleared out of the courtyard.

Just for reference I took a "before" picture of what everything looked like before the cabinets were put in place.

Mike (Delucca - one of the cabinet builders) and Jonathan carry the cabinets in and gently put them in place. You can see the laser level on the wall behind Mike. They'll use that to make sure they go in level.

The tall broom closet is in place. The one on the floor is one of the ones that will go above the fridge in that space (you'll have to use your imagination - it's on back order).

Here are the first set all in place. The farmhouse sink goes on the top of that center cabinet. The two gaps you see are where the dishwashers will go.

Here is where the stove will go. You'd think we'd have a name for that appliance by now since it's the focal point of the whole renovation (and cost more than most of it) but we actually auctioned off the naming rights with our French dinner at the last Physicians' Philanthropic Gala Dinner. The night of the dinner the winners of the dinner will decide on a name for the star of this show. The stove will nestle between these two short counters and then scroll shaped corbels will go up to the range hood above the stove. The square hole in the wall is where the pot filler was installed. That hole will be patched and then the entire square that you can see drawn out on the wall will be tiled.