Yes, that’s right. After a year and a half of piecing together our kitchen when we had the money and when our custom cabinet builder had the time to show up, we are finally there. Well, not quite there, but 99% there. I am kind of counting our chickens before the eggs have hatched here, but all of the appliances are (and have been) installed, all of the woodwork is done, the handles are installed, the marble floors are installed, the drywall is installed, it’s painted and the plumbing is done. Not to mention, it looks pretty good.

We are only two things shy of a completed kitchen.

1. Last piece of matching granite for our desk area
2. Under cabinet lighting

The under cabinet lighting is not a problem. All of the wiring is done, the switch is in, we just need to buy/install the lights. I may do that myself or I may wait for Brian to come down for another vacation. Brian is our buddy from Florida who keeps taking his vacations to come down here and help us with EVERYTHING electrical. He has pretty much done all of our electrical work and had great suggestions on what/where/how everything should be planned out. Unlike Summer and I, this is not his first rodeo.

The granite is a different story, and I have my fingers crossed. The granite we have in the kitchen seems to be running in short supply on the island and they are currently trying track down the pieces of slab that we need. The reason why we didn’t buy all the granite at once is because the kitchen lay out changed a couple of months after installing the counter tops. Not by much, but we decided to add some drawers for our pots and pans next to the stove, a knife/utensil drawer and a built-in mahogany cutting board, a built in beverage cooler (originally JUST a wine fridge, but it does a great job keeping Medalla cold and is great for that little bit of extra fridge space when cooking for a bunch of people) and a workstation area for our daughter to do homework and for me to stack all of the mail I never open.

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