Handy Hardware

The cabinet guys were back in full force yesterday, installing crown and hardware to our cabinets. To be honest I wasn't too excited about it yesterday morning - I kind of felt like this week would be a slow one in terms of progress. So imagine my excitement when I got home to see these lovely details.

Cat added for dramatic effect.
 

We're using a two-piece trim, so you can see in some places where the first piece is in, a flat piece with decorative lines along the bottom. The pictures above of the white cabinets show the final look with both pieces in, and below you can see what the under piece looks like over the dark cabinet.

The crown and hardware may be small details in terms of the overall project, but they make a tremendous difference in the look. We are so happy with how things are coming along, and pleased with the surprise of the dramatic change.

They should be back today to continue their good work, and the stack of glass cabinet inserts, doors and trim left in the kitchen makes us very excited for another day of great strides. They will also putty and put a final finish coat over all the nail holes and cracks for a perfectly finished look.

And while we're on it, let's take a moment to look at the grain in the dark cherry cabinets. My original pictures were in poor light and with my ancient cell phone, so here's a close-up of the grain. We were actually originally going to use oak for our dark cabinets, as that's what the rest of our downstairs trim is made out of, but when we got into the cabinet showroom C spotted a beautiful cherry vanity and the rest was history.

So that's where we are. We appear to be about 3 weeks from finished now (and we're on our 6th week, so we should land around 9 total weeks when all is said and done). Next week they're refinishing our hardwood floors on the entire main floor, so we're busy moving out of the house this week, and have scheduled piano movers to move my 1920's upright (which translates into incredibly heavy but very lovely old piano) out to the garage so that it's out of the way. Then refinishing should be about a week of work/drying/defuming. The following Monday, which happens to be Halloween, will be countertop installation (I'm so excited) followed by two weeks of painting, trimming, installing fixtures and faucets, etc. until everything is finished and we can enjoy our new home!