Monday, April 20, 2009

Under cabinet lights



John hard-wired (while I held in place) our lights for the kitchen cabinets. Wiring lights has become a fairly simple job for us now. We put up basic fluorescent lights - it puts out more than enough light, and we will have trim along the bottom so they will never be seen.

medicine cabinet


We finally installed our bathroom medicine cabinet. This was really a trial run for the ikea cabinets as it is also from ikea. The trickiest part is hanging the doors, partly because the screws are cheap and bend easily so you only get a few chances to make adjustments before the screws start to weaken.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

The Kitchen Cabinets






Our wall cabinets are up!! I must say I am very impressed with our work today. We had to shim the cabinets quite a bit at the end (farthest from the corner) but our end cover panel fits perfectly so it's just fine. We still have one more cabinet to attach next to the corner cabinet. It's a small open shelf cabinet and we haven't decided how to best attach it to the corner as it doesn't come with the open holes the other cabinets come with. We still have to attach the doors and put in the shelves, but the hard part is done.

Master Bedroom



We've painted the master bedroom - a nice light purple. The closets are also painted and the bar is hung. We're currently working on re-doing a few spackle lines on the ceiling. It was looking great until we hooked the light back up, and at night when the light is on it casts very unfriendly shadows. Once that's fixed we'll hang the closet doors and start the trim.