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....