WE HAVE CABINETS

They say good things will happen, have patience.  I am a little (okay a lot) short on patience, but AJ called me on Tuesday to ask me a couple of questions and said he would be there that day to start delivering my cabinets.  Sure enough at noon Jay called to tell me the first load had been delivered.  When I got there on Friday the house was full of cabinets.  We did have some issues.  Issues that wouldn't have been issues if we had ever seen the plans but since we didn't we had to make some adjustments.  One issue was that my center island was way bigger than I had envisioned it.  It had all the items I wanted in it, but because of that it became this behemoth.  To correct the problem would have meant redesigning the entire cabinet and to make sure I got all the elements I wanted it would have most likely meant many of the others too.  I did not have the time or the patience for that exercise.  So now my spacious kitchen will be a lot less spacious but it is still a great kitchen.  We did have to change one set of cabinets, because the design now didn't leave enough clearance to get the refrigerator or the stove into the kitchen.  I'm still not sure about the stove, but we did fix the side where the refrigerator slides through. 

The offending cabinets have been removed to be reworked- it will still be tight.

The entertainment center in the bedroom looks great but i forgot to take a picture.

Here is my seat with storage for shoes in my mud room  I LOVE IT!.

There was also an issue in the bathroom.  Turns out the bathroom specs were for a standard tub and it was built out and plumbed for a standard tub- however the granite and marble guy who made the tub and bathroom countertop made a bigger tub.  It didn't fit.  So everything had to be modified to make it fit.  The plumber was really not happy!  If it looks okay in the end and I am assured it won't leak where they had to cut the drywall I will be okay, if not................  

The next interesting story is our tile guy Michael.  He is a perfectionist so as a result he seems really slow, but I would rather have slow and right than fast and problems.  When I got to the house and went to see how it was going in the shower I realized that the seat he was doing was not what I wanted.  I got a little upset, not at him but at us for not providing a good picture of what I wanted.  Michael said he was at a spot that if I wanted him to change it he could, we would need to order more tile and that would delay his completion, but he could make it like I wanted, no problem.  I love guys like this!!  He was so sweet and came to work on it on Saturday just to make sure I liked what he created for me.  So as a thank you I steamed some of my Tamales and we all (Michael, his assistant, Jay and I) had Laynie and Belinda's homemade tamales for lunch.  It was a good day.