Pictures!

So, Here's what the kitchen looks like now that we have some granite installed. The sink, backsplash and under-cabinet lighting still needs to be installed, but that'll have to wait until we return from Mexico.

Countertops Pt. 2

AS I TYPE, our granite is being installed. It looks super nice.

Countertops

I just got a call from our cabinet maker (who also arranged the counters with a granite company) that the granite guys would like to install the counters on friday this week. That's pretty sweet.

I've got all the appliances where they belong now, so with the countertops coming friday we'll pretty much have everything complete, except the backsplash (which I'll probably do next month) and the drains for the sink.

OMG New cabinets!

Yay, it's all done! and damn does it look good. Here's a picture



And this is the tile we will most likely use for the backsplash:

More cabinets...

So I got home tonight hoping to see a finished kitchen. Instead I saw something else... SAWDUST! On EVERYTHING! Now, I'm not stupid. I figured there's be some sawdust from the cutting that needed to be done. But seriously, the guy could've at least TRIED to cover up some things with the tarp he had.

Colour me annoyed.

Also, it looks like all he did today was the trim pieces... the doors are not installed. WTF! Does it really take THAT long to do the trim? It doesn't even look right... you can see the seams and nail holes, so he had better be filling those in tomorrow when he comes to attach the doors.

It's still a nice kitchen, but I'm annoyed that it's still not finished. I want my home back! I have no room to move around, literally! Right now I'm sitting in bed because I can't use the living room. I have furniture piled on top of furniture just so we could make room for the cabinets to come in.

This weekend will be one hell of a clean-up weekend

Cabinets

Yesterday was a busy day. At about 8:30am I took a drive out to the Abbotsford/Sumas border (and, in fact, crossed it) to pick up our sink and faucet. This took a few hours because when I got there the faucet was the only item that had arrived. I called UPS and found out that the sink was on a truck out for delivery. I decided to take a chance that it would arrive soon, so I went and grabbed some breakfast. when I was done I drove over to the place where the stuff was shipped. It turns out that the UPS truck had JUST ARRIVED, so I was able to pick the sink up right off the truck. I'm glad I decided to stick around.

During this time, Deb was at home with the cabinet installer, making sure things went well. By the end of the day, the cabinet boxes had been installed and there was a huge mess of sawdust everywhere. Today the installer is coming back to do the doors and trim pieces and hopefully clean up a lot of that sawdust.

I'll try to post pics tonight

Finally

YAY!!! We finally painted the bathroom! It's... white. We chose white because There's already so much colour in the green tile, and since it's such a small room, we didn't want to overwhelm the space. So the walls are white, and we'll put up some nice artwork to make them a little less bare. It looks so nice now that it's all done.

Snag!

Stupid UPS and there stupid stupidness!

So, I ordered our kitchen sink and faucet online from a company in the states. We ended up saving about $600, close to half what it would cost if we bought here in Canada. Even with the duty we'll have to pay, it's still over $400 savings. well worth it.

Well, it seems UPS has a bunch of retarded monkeys working for them. They received the items from the shipper, sat on them, and then sent them BACK to the warehouse they came from. Why?? Who the fuck knows. I got various different answers from UPS when I called them, but apparently they were waiting for payment of the duty. When I asked them how I pay for this they told me they'd call me and tell me when they had the value of the items, as they did not know it yet. So then the next day they sent the items back! Idiots.

I spoke with the vendor I purchased the items from and they confirmed that they got the items back and they're re-shipping them out to me. This time, however, I am not having them sent to Canada. I am using a company called "Ship Happens" that is located in Sumas, WA. They will receive the package for me so I can drive across the border, pick it up, and take it back across the border. Then I'll just have to pay the duty at the border. Hopefully this works out.

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Our kitchen is nearing completion. Over the weekend we scraped the plaster off the walls where the fake brick was, patched a bunch of holes, sanded the walls and put up a coat of primer. The electrician has come in to rough in the electrical for the under cabinet lights and the new microwave hood-fan. Now all we have to do is wait for our cabinets to arrive. They've been delayed by a couple days, so we'll be getting them on June 11, instead of June 9.

This weekend we're going to take it easy a bit. We've got to go looking at tiles for the kitchen backsplash, but that's about it.