Kitchen Renovation, Day 2

We started today with the hope of clearing up a few measuring discrepancies. Matt, our contractor, had mapped out the location of the cabinets yesterday evening, and it seemed like we had two walls that were longer than our plans suggested. There was also a wall cabinet that was supposed to be 15 inches wide where there was only room for an 8- or maybe 9-in cabinet. I called Phylis, our designer, when I got to work this morning, and she made an appointment to get to our house later in the morning. As it turned out, the walls we thought were "too long" were entered that way because we needed some space along those walls for traffic-flow reasons. I am pretty sure that we should have remembered that from our virtual walk-through, but there are a lot of details in projects like these. The wall cabinet was a mistake, but it's an easy one to fix and won't put us behind schedule. Phew!

Matt basically finished the wiring today--just a few things left. The pull-cord on our "lighting fixture" is gone--we now have a switch! Our ceiling has been fixed, and almost all the backer board is down for our tile floor. The plumbing pipes and joints behind our sink had turned out to be badly corroded, and they had to be replaced--that was also finished today, and the wall is now patched up like new. All in all, a productive day. Our cabinets are being delivered on Thursday. The plan is to get the base cabinets installed as soon as possible so that the countertop guys can come in and create their template. We will be painting this weekend.

Dinner was leftover pizza from our trip to The Nines on Sunday.