Without dwelling on this, our kitchen cabinets were supposed to be installed this week. Our mahogany french doors were supposed to be built and installed 2 weeks ago. The cabinet guy we are using is a very talented woodworker and is in high demand in Rincon. Unfortunately, he is not a good communicator. He never started our cabinets or door…he said he needed a deposit in order to do that. Of course he does, but he didn’t except my offer of a deposit 2 months ago saying “not to worry about it.” I am going to blame this miscommunication on my ignorance…I should have pushed the issue.

Although I was upset because it puts us behind on our work schedule, I sucked it up, created a time that he could agree on, put it in writing and gave him a deposit last week. Yesterday, he called me and asked me to stop by his shop to answer some questions. We had to figure out where to put drawers, cabinets, what type of shelves, lazy susans, spice racks, recessed shelves and detail work. It was actually a lot of fun because he had the “L’s” built that are going to be at the far end of the kitchen so I could actually visualize where everything would be. I stood in his shop as if I was in my kitchen at the stove and strategically place the spice racks, drawers and trash can cabinet in proportion to where the fridge, dishwasher and stove would be. It was cool and I got into a zone and made all of the decisions he needed made in order to keep moving forward with our mahogany kitchen cabinets. We’ll see if my decisions were good ones once we get them installed and I start cooking.

Check out some pictures of the start of our cabinets…

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This is the Grand Plan…I bet it makes sense to Louis

The frame of the cabinets that will be on the left side of the kitchen

I took this pre-sunset picture leaving Louis’s shop