and sanding… and sanding… and sanding…

Between work, life, kiddo, and Bella, progress on the kitchen has been a bit slower than we’d hoped. We had some last bits of mudding to do after Mike left, and over the last day or so E went through on the midnight shift and sanded everything down.

We do have a coherent plan as to how this needs to come together. First, we bought nine feet of IKEA Akurum cabinets with Applad black doors. We’ve started assembling those and should be done this evening.

We’re going to paint the walls Benjamin Moore Bunny Gray. It was a toss up between that and Iced Cube Silver, but Bunny Gray has the word bunny in it, so that’s a bit of a given. We should be able to paint when the plaster dries and we sand one last time.

Our only dilemma has to do with the countertop. Our budget is maxing out, so something like stainless steel will have to wait. L is having his first birthday soon, so the two week waiting period to have even a basic laminate countertop fabricated is backing us into a bit of a corner. We might settle on using some of the 8.5 foot spans of extra red countertop we have stashed in the garage, just for the time being.

Either way, it’s going to be a long weekend.