A record of Kitchen Cabinets Are Like Slugs

As in, they take their sweet time. Yesterday was installation day 1, and it did not quite go exactly as planned. But then again, nothing in home improvement ever does.

It can best be compared to Christmas morning as a child when you can hardly sleep the night before, anxiously awaiting the crack of dawn so you can rip into all of those carefully wrapped gifts from “Santa.” John and I stayed up late and woke up early excitedly chattering about the long awaited installation. Remember, we have been fully kitchenless for close to two months (no cabinets, no counters, no sink, no nothing) so imagine our excitement at the prospect of seeing all of our cabinets out of their boxes and into their final resting places.

And the day began out well. It was not until about an hour into the installation when I got the terrible, horrible, no good, quite bad news. One of our two corner base cabinets was reversed. In other words, they sent us two righties instead of a rightie and a leftie. Although KraftMaid has rushed to correct their mistake, it is still gonna be about 2 weeks (!) before the new cabinet arrives. Boo! The kitchen was on schedule to be done by the 19th, but now we will be lucky to have a wrapped up kitchen by early January.

And that is how the Grinch stole our Christmas kitchen.

In the meantime, our installer has chose to forge ahead with all the other cabinets. Here is what the kitchen looked like on Sunday night:

And what it looked like on Monday night:

We cannot believe the remarkable amount of storage in our extra tall 42 inch upper cabinets. Burger (in his Christmas sweater) and I can practically live inside:

I guess the cabinet debacle is simply another lesson that nothing ever comes straightforward… but when it is all said and done it is nothing short of miraculous. Even if our kitchen is fashionably late, at least we will have the rest of our lives to enjoy it.