remodeler's remorse

it's been a long hard weekend. day after day of work has started to grate on both of us. it certainly doesn't help when nothing is going according to plan and everything is much harder than anticipated. on friday, the appliances arrived and we mapped out on the wall the locations of the base cabinet tops and the wall cabinet bottoms.

here are the piles of appliances (sans washer - on backorder):



and more appliances!



and our pretty new faucet:



we spent several hours determining a workaround for our molding. it turns out that some areas of the ceiling are a little bit higher than we anticipated; this height increase is a problem because we need the crown molding to hit the ceiling. we were able to figure out a way to extend our 3" stock molding (which is installed on top of the cabinet and the crown attaches to the top of the stock molding), and that tragedy was avoided.

after mapping the cabinet locations and more planning, we started creating the platform on which the laundry room utility cabinets would rest. we needed to raise the cabinets 2.5" so that again the stock/crown moldings would reach the ceiling. here's the platform:



on saturday we were able to get the 15" and 18" wide x 90" tall utility cabinets and filler together, though not without traveling a steep learning curve. by the end of the day the cabinets were in place. two cabinets installed in just two days! on sunday we installed the sink base, tested our extended stock / crown molding installation, and applied the first coat of trim paint in the laundry room. the finished products:





monday we tackled the dry bar. it took quite some time to deal with uneven walls, but our biggest dilemma was coming up with a solution to install the light rail below the cabinets. by the end of the day we had a proposed solution, but we would have to test it out on tuesday morning.

we were both feeling a bit low in terms of the lack of progress and one problem after another. unfortunately our foreman was asleep on the job: