Kitchen Progress

Well, we are slowly making progress on our kitchen. We have measured, cut and hung the rail that the upper cabinets hang on.

And we have hung a whole new wall of cabinets. (I had to include a picture of Andrew's butt, since he took of picture of mine).

Things have moved a little more slowly than we had hoped because we are having to figure out little details as we go. For example, our corner isn't really square. So, it is making the corner cabinet hang funny. So, we have to figure out how to adjust everything to make it level and look right. So, assembling the cabinets have been no big deal. We can get one together in about 5 minutes. But, getting them on the wall takes a little more work.

We have also taken back one door for our pantry because the grain was a little funkidelic. We got the second one and we didn't like the grain on it either. So, we need to make another trip back to IKEA to get a third. I'm sure it won't be our last trip back. But, in the mean time, I have a whole wall of functioning cabinets and I am in love with my new pantry. Before, all of our food was shoved in a lazy susan, round about thingy, a cabinet here and a cabinet there. It was hard to know what I already had stored everywhere. So, now it is all in one place. So exciting!!

Our next step is to hang the rest of the wall cabinets. We actually have them all up on the wall already, we just need a few filler pieces to finish the job. So, hopefully that will be done by Wednesday. Then it is on to the base cabinets.

Madeline is still enjoying the remodeling process. She likes all the empty cabinets and calls them, "houses". She kind of looks like she is in "time out" here. But, we didn't put her there. :)

She even likes to play on the old cabinets. Here she is serving "happy cake" (birthday cake) to her bear. She makes some really yummy happy cake!