Weekend of Feb 15th - Cabinet Installation

Finally time to put together our new kitchen!  All the cabinets are assembled except for one of the 12" wall units, which came without the locking cams on the side wall...a little bit of a challenge to figure out 'what' to replace.  Joe from CTG/Indy was originally going to order in a new cabinet (an extra 10 days or so), but after speaking with their HQ in S. Cal, they are just sending me the new locking cam plastic fittings.  We're going to put up the wall cabinets first, and just work around the 'missing' 12" cabinet; since it's going to be 'open' next to the refrigerator.




This side panel was supposed to have the cam  insert pins,
instead of these two holes  (brown plastic insert like next picture)

This side panel was O.K. and included the cam lock/pins















Saturday, 6:09 pm, only one cabinet up!  It took quite awhile to get up the first cabinet, but I created a challenge with my design of the corner cabinets extending out beyond the adjacent wall cabinets, and within the constraints of the available corner cabinet sizes from Cabinets to Go vs. the original Menard's Schrock design.  You can see on the left side that we used two 2x4's to push this cabinet out away from the wall 3".

Saturday, 10:25 pm, O.K., now we're making some more progress...

 

 

 

By Sunday evening 2/17 (11:36 pm), the weekend is over, but we've now got all the main kitchen area upper cabinets installed, with the exception of the 12" cabinet with the missing part (goes on far left end (where ladder is).  Also, we'll need to add the 'fill'/trim strips (to cover the extended corner cabinets and some upper spaces).  I only ordered 3 fill strips, and we're estimating that we'll need more like 5 (so, I'll be calling Joe on Monday to order 2 more).

 

 

We've also finished setting the cabinets in the other half of the kitchen, though we haven't fully installed the pantry unit yet, but have it set into place. There's our friend Louie supervising Doug's work on the pantry placement (had to remove some of the flooring to get this unit into place).

 

 

 

 

That's all for now!  Base cabinets next, countertop installer scheduled to template soon after...



Late Jan. - Mid Feb: Drywall Finishing & New Kitchen Cabinets

Big news, I ordered my cabinets from Cabinets to Go on January 23, and they were delivered to their Indianapolis store/warehouse on the following Wed., Jan. 30.  We drove over to Indy to pick them up on Sat., Feb. 1 (that's Doug trying to fit all the cabinet boxes into his truck).



With the truck bed topper removed, and back seat filled, we got everything loaded!

In the meantime, our drywall finisher Lloyd gave us his quote, and came in during the week of Feb. 3, to do the drywall finishing. The next weekend (Feb. 8-10) Doug and our friend Louie painted the kitchen. 





Newly painted kitchen ready for cabinets!

While they painted, I worked on assembling our new cabinets.  During the weekend and several week nights, I put together a total of 12 upper cabinets, a pantry unit (with some help from Doug), and 8 base cabinets.  The cabinet assembly wasn't too complicated, a system of locking cams and screws, with the single wall cabinets taking only about 20 minutes or so each, to assemble.  The base cabinets and pantry unit took quite a bit more time to assemble...



That's all the unassembled wall cabinet
boxes in one bedroom

That's the pantry unit and the unassembled
base cabinets in our other bedroom

 

 





Wall cabinet assembly in progress....