paint and more cabinets

E and I put L to bed and spent Saturday night carrying out Operation Bunny Gray. We let it dry and saw that it was still way too dark for a kitchen that will have black cabinets. We went back to the drawing board (and Lowe’s) and picked up two gallons of Iced Cube Silver.

After picking up the aforementioned row of lower cabinets for far less money than I envisioned, it occurred to me that doing the whole kitchen was slightly in reach. We talked it over and planned everything out, and walked out of IKEA Sunday afternoon with a full set of counters, upper and lower cabinets. Our sister and brother-in-law were our angels from above, trekking up with us in their F150 to haul the bulk of it back to the house.

We solved the counter dilemma by opting for the more expensive DOMSJÖ double bowl apron sink. This severs the counter sections completely into smaller sections without the need for a seam, and allowed us to pick up countertops at IKEA while we were there.

The only place we ran into trouble when designing the kitchen was that we originally placed the dishwasher immediately to the left of the apron sink cabinet. I wondered, since the sink is flush with the cabinet, if there would be anything for the end seam of the counter to rest on. There wasn’t. We inserted a twelve inch wide cabinet between the sink and the dishwasher.

Enough about the planning stages. As I say to E all the time, “Less talking, more working.”