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Kitchen Remodel: Making Progress With The Floors and Cabinets

 
Well, the yellow pine floors finally made their appearance and they are perfect. 
 
They won't have a finish until everything else is done.
 


You can see the difference between the old floor in the utility room and new floor in the kitchen. 


The following day, the cabinet boxes went in.  We had a local guy build the custom cabinets.  It cost considerably less to have him build the cabinets than to buy them from a big box store.  Plus, they are custom!


The stove will go to the far right.  The fridge will go to the right of the window.  A farmhouse sink will go under the window with the dishwasher to the left. 

We have a nice glass-front upper cabinet ready to be installed to the left of the new window.  With additional trim, it will look like a small china cupboard.  Because of the extra trim it will be installed after the granite goes in. 


Rough cut wood is being picked up right now to be used as a faux beam over each of the windows and upper cabinets to match the beams in the rest of the house. 

A few hours after I took the pictures above, the cabinet guys came to install most of the drawers and doors and the hardware. 

  Here is the area where the stove will go.  I bought the drawer pulls from Target and the door handles at Home Depot. 



A few more hinges and pulls still need to be installed as well as the adjustable shelves.  All of the drawers have the soft close sliders which I'm excited about. 


I'm off now to purchase the lights we finally picked out and also some additional door pulls.  I can't believe I didn't count correctly!  Good grief.  We've decided to reuse our old ceiling fan so I'm just going to pick up a new light kit - I'm thinking schoolhouse light.  Of course, I'm going to spray paint the old fan to freshen it up. 

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  1. LottieMarch 7, 2013 at 5:29 PM

    Cabinet pulls and cabinets look great! OMG, the floor will be beautiful! Can't wait to see it finished!

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  2. annMarch 8, 2013 at 8:15 PM

    it is looking I am sure you are excited to get in your new kit.

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