Fri 17th October and Sat 18th. From 0 to 60 in 2 seconds..

1. The doors were installed, resulting in a lot of banging. Cool! The french doors look great. They let lots of light into the kitchen.



Here are the new windows







And the new sliding door









2. The chandelier arrived, was unpacked by moi. Nice! Much better proportioned than the first small one. 3. The cooktop (which is needed for templating the granite, along with the kitchen sink), was also delivered today. Here is the chandelier on top of the cooktop box, in our garage


4. Another painter came to quote. He gave us an on-the-spot quotation. It was for painting the living room and hallway, and the wall in our bedroom that had a door and now has a window :-) Lets just say the quote was 1/4 of the price of the painting quote by the contractor's subcontractor. Ridiculous. $1,100 instead of $4k. Good thing, really. My (old) car needed $2k worth of repairs today..

5. The kitchen cabinets were also delivered today. It took 2 guys 1.5+ hours. There is a MOUNTAIN of boxes in our living room! When the boys saw it they said 'cool! just like a maze'. No kidding!









We opened one of the boxes. This is the island, and the island-slot it will be installed in, this coming week. The island is cherry, the rest of the cabinets are painted cream.










Some subbies came on Sat to do the mold for the concrete steps coming from the french doors. They'll probably be pouring concrete on Mon. I also think cabinet installation is due to start Monday. The granite templating should be on Friday.