So after 3 hours at IKEEEEA where we had to wait for them to get our order together, then tell us that a set of doors we bought were out of stock, and THEN giving us the wrong size countertop (which thankfully was obvious when Kev loaded into his truck)…
Progress on the cabinets.
First, why we need cabinets in the dining room:
yeah, really. what the hell? There is no storage in my tiny crap kitchen.
here are the cabinet frames assembled:
see how the chair rail peeks above the cabinets? that’s going to interfere with the countertop. we have two options. Remove the chair rail where it overlaps with the cabinets. Or…
now with shelf goodness. The legs under the cabinets are adjustable. So we raised them up until the cabinets were ABOVE the chair rail. Kev does’t like this method, though, because:
It leaves gaps around the edges.
He wants to remove the chair rail, patch, and paint. But all I can say is DO EET QUICKLY then, because I want my cabinets! Plus the countertop is taking up alot of room.
I also have to put the doors on. We’re missing the doors to the middle cabinet, and the far left cabinet will eventually have a drawer. Both were out of stock, but should come in in a couple of weeks.
And then…I will be able to PUT THINGS AWAY! BLISS!!!
After we’re done with the cabinets, I also want to put a shelf above them for even more storage. Then redo the kitchen counters to match the countertop in the dining room.
OH! additional funny Ikea story. We’re checking out, and we have the sheets with all the cabinet info and prices we got from the cabinet design guy, and then some stuff for Sadie. I set the papers and the two plastic doggy bowls (for traveling!) on the checkout counter, and proceed to chat with Kev while the nice lady rings up our purchases ($350 in cabinets, $1.50 in dog bowls) and we’re about to leave to go pick up our cabinets…when..what’s this thing I’ve been carrying under my arm?
A stuffed dog toy. Oops.
I apologize to the checkout lady (who I don’t think even noticed), had her ring it up quickly and just payed for it in cash. But OH MY GOD, just my luck to be kicked out of Ikea for shoplifting a $2 STUFFED DOG TOY after spending $350 ON CABINETS!!!
dammit, my brain is fried lately.
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I say, shop lift them out of existence. But I am bitter and hateful towards Ikea because of what they have done to my easy, breezy, Canton drive.
Now… It’s more like “OHMYGODLADYIT’SFORTYFIVEMILESPERHOURIFYOUDON’TSTARTGOINGTHESPEEDLIMITI
AMGOINGTORUNYOUOFFTHEROADANDYOUBUDDYIT’SAFUCKINGTURNSIGNALUSEITGAAAAH!”
But that’s just me.
Wow. Sounds like Scoot needs some anti-anxiety meds.
Hey Noodle–I’m with Kev on this one. It may take longer to remove the chair rail and do the patch and paint, but it’ll look SO much better! And since you have time (really, you do have time before the condo goes to market), you may as well do it up right.
Scoot–there’s one more that I always found myself screaming in Canton, even before y’all got the Ikea.
“LADYHANGTHEFUCKUPANDMOTHAFUCKIN DRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!”
I did that once with a pair of socks. The arm thing, that is, not a full kitchen cabinet installation.
Coming along quite nicely, I might add.
OOoooooh, ESC. . tsk tsk. .
You can’t install white cabinets after Labor Day.
social faux pas.
Scoot - seriously…issues! you need some anger management counseling. I lived with an Ikea in pittsburgh for YEARS without major traffic issues. It may be that people in Canton are just driving retards.
Aimee - my argument for leaving them is that maybe the buyers will decide that they’d rather have a bigger dining room than the cabinets. So it would be nice if they were left intact. Kev might be waffling on his decision, too. We’ll see how it works out.
Serra - see? just as I suspected
E-Lo - I’ve walked out of the grocery store with things on the bottom of my cart that didn’t get paid for. THE GUILT! BUT…FREE 6-PACK OF COKE! what a moral issue.
TJ - *snort!* freak!
We once did that with a bottle of water. It was under the cart and we didn’t realize it till we got out to the car. Oops.
Those cabinets look nice and much needed. We are also utilizing the shelves o’ crap storage method in our kitchen.
I ended up with a free $35 bra the last time I was at Victoria’s Secret. Because the sales guy was so intent on getting me to sign up for an Angel’s Card that he totally forgot to ring it up. He had, however, taken the security tab off of it. Several hours later, I discovered it. My mom was like “Take it back! I raised you better than that!”. To which I said “Yes, perhaps you did, but now that I live in New York, I know better than to pass up freebies.”
Me likey the cabinet…soon as the new money from the new contract starts flowing in, Julie’s ordering a dresser and nightstand from Ikea.
That’s going to look very nice when finished. Storage space rules.
I wish we lived closer, Travis could tie your baseboards in to the bottom of those cabinets and make them look like built-ins.
damn. I wish you lived closer, too!