Halfway Through Hanging the Cabinets

So Brian and his dad have been making some great progress installing the cabinets!  The majority are complete around the stove.  One more wall cabinet will go above the washing machine area.

I am really pleased with how the microwave and oven are looking.  They definitely did not look so nice in our old kitchen when mismatched cabinets surrounded them.

I am anxiously awaiting using the oven and stove top, but since the sink is still in-op we have to wait on making baked on grossness type dishes.

 Tonight the guys installed one of the two pantry cabinets.  It is a starting point for that whole wall to be covered in cabinetry.  A cabinet will be above and surrounding the refrigerator, and the washer and dryer will also be inside of one.

You have no idea how excited I am to have the washer and dryer back inside the house and functioning.  Bye Bye Fluff and Fold Laundromat!  I was literally doing laundry in these pictures and also while I'm typing this up. 

The refrigerator is hooked up to the water line too.  We have ice, people!  I've never had a refrigerator make ice for me.  What a luxury!!!

Lastly, the island cabinets will be installed. All but two cabinets have been built so it's helping clear up the explosion of Ikea boxes that have been all over our house for the past few months.

Then comes granite!!!

yes...Yes...YES!!!! Paint, Tile, and some Cabinets

Finally all the mudding and sanding has been completed.  That has definitely been the most boring, messy, long part of the the kitchen remodel so far.  So first thing's first; time for some paint.

Brian painted the ceiling and I primed and painted the walls.  I skipped over the areas that cabinets will be against so, no, I am not just a horrible painter. 

I chose a color called "Delicate Mist" by Behr paints.  I was going for a really washed out turqouise blue green color.  It seems that most of the time when I'm looking at it on the walls now it just looks like a grayish blue.  It's not what I wanted but it still looks good.  We will just roll with it for now.

 
The next day the tile guys came and started their install.  This is the only outside contractor we have hired for anything so we were nervous about them possibly not putting as much heart into our project.  Fortunately they were really great and did a gorgeous job!

They did about half the room and came back two days later and finished laying the tile.  Then on the third day they wrapped up the install by grouting.

The tile we chose is Italian porcelain called Woodland Black.  The grout is a dark matching gray called Storm.  I was a little hesitant picking a floor so dark but since everything else is white or almost white I figured it would look like a nice contrast.

We absolutely love it!

 

We gave the tile and grout plenty of time to dry and then started installing some cabinets over the weekend.  I built the cabinets and Brian and his dad did the hanging.  There was a little bit of a hold up figuring out exactly what we wanted to do with the crown molding.  I would like no gap between the cabinets and the ceiling so we had to finalize measurements and choose an exact molding.

It's beyond exciting to see the cabinets going in!  All of our hard work and patience is starting to really pay off.

Here's a little reminder of what the "before" looked like: