We’ve waited a long time for this. More than four months coming. Our kitchen is finally starting to look like one. While we are still a couple weeks away from actually using it, it sure feels good to see cabinets going up.

And with our appliances put in front of their respective locations:

Later this week, there is (yet another) contractor coming over to do some work we weren’t sure was going to be done or not. He is going to be doing some patching and replacing of maple flooring on the main floor. There are a couple spots where someone had put outlets mounted on the floor. While the one that is an inch away from the wall wasn’t that bad, the one that was right in the middle of the floor had been driving us crazy. So those two spots are going to go away. Then there is another location that had a cold air return in the past, and it was “patched” up by just placing 4 maple floor boards in the rectangular opening. While the floor is a good match, it isn’t blended at all, so it sticks out like a sore thumb. That’ll be fixed.

One of the worst flooring areas is where there used to be room dividers between the living room and dining room (ugh at whoever tore those out!). This area was patched in quite poorly with cut marks into neighboring floor boards. And after the burst pipes, they became quite bouncy and loose. I’m excited to see how this is going to turn out.

Onto the main floor bedroom, there is another cold air return that was patched again. This time with one solid board (at least 6″ wide by at least 2′ long). If the other one sticks out like a sore thumb, this sticks out like a monster truck at a Mini Cooper convention.  As Brendan would say: buh-bye. The other spots in this room aren’t quite as bad. There are a couple <1″ holes drilled in near the trim that will go. And in the middle of the room, there must have been a bad squeak, as someone put in around two dozen bright, wide, silver nails into the floor boards. This area will be cut out and patched.