Hey! It's almost looking like a kitchen today!!! The unpleasant skies of October maintained their drippy 'tude all day, so there wasn't much in the way of outdoor improvements when I finally came be in the evening. Steve did manage to get the Trex decking onto almost all the treads and the lower two supersteps, but I wasn't able to pick up much of anything else outside.Pete was an indoor dynamo today, creating mass quantities of recyclable cardboard as he dug deeper into the stack of Ikea cabinetry, all in its factory induced state of flatness. Ikea really has an ingenious system for furniture delivery. They've taken all the airspace out. You buy the stuff and it's all packed tightly into neatly stacking cardboard packages, filled with wood and wood-like products, and lots of glue of some kind. The necessary connector hardware is tucked in there somewhere, and all you have to do after transporting it is figure out how to read the all-graphic instructions and assemble it all. It's become such a huge part of everyone I know's furnishings in the Puget Sound area that it's surprising to learn that there isn't an Ikea store almost everywhere. Like Sana Fe, NM for instance; it looks like the nearest one is in Phoenix for goodness sake. Well; we are so blessed...
So Pete sent me down to Ikea today to pick up the two missing pieces that didn't come with the big order - the cabinet above the refrigerator, and the drawer front panels for the unit under the peninsula.But I did discover a boo-boo today by Pete (I think I did, anyway - he's so much more experienced than me but still...) In the second photo, the wide open cabinet in the middle is where the cooktop goes. Just to the right of it will be a cabinet with three drawers. Currently, that three-drawer cabinet is located so close to the cooktop cabinet that the drawers aren't going to be able to open up; they'll bang into the side of the cooktop cabinet once its two drawers are in place. Oops. Also - that cabinet on the far right is where we might put in a bar sink (everyone in the world says "Yes!" but H says "No!". (I think her thought bubble is "If Howard and Lori put in a bar sink would you do it to?") Anyway, the drain line for that bar sink goes down through the bottom of the cabinet into the floor, and where Pete located the cabinet, it won't be covered by the toe-kick panel. It'll be sticking out there right in front of you and me and everyone we know. )) <==> (( if you know what I mean! Extra points if you get that reference!
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