Catching up

I just downloaded pictures from my camera and realized how much I have yet to report on! I actually have some more things to show!

Back in December (I think it was December) we bought the cabinets for the mudroom, and spent an afternoon assembling them with our "crew." M's Mom, Mary, loves assembling these Ikea cabinets, and we had a warmish day so chose to team up on the deck and get these built.

That's Mary in the white jumpsuit (I must take a pic of it and show you--it was her birthday present from us 2 years ago and it's funny!) assembling, with M looking on.

Large "wardrobe" cabinet on it's side, getting the back tacked on. Door in photo leads to garage.

"Wardrobe" cabinet in place. Window looks out at front of house (poor quality photo!)

Opposite side of the room. That middle cabinet is really a wall cabinet (on it's side). The cabinet on the left will hold the top of the desk that will mount to the side of the tall cabinet.

View from the Kitchen area--looking toward garage. Cabinets in place. These will likely get a coat of paint (gray, we're thinking) but that's another post.

In the meantime, when we went to Ikea to buy these, we found a Hemness dresser in the clearance area because of a damaged top. Hmmmm, would work for 1/2 of our kitchen island! And we'll be putting a new top on (marble) so the damage to the top of this dresser (why it was on clearance) doesn't matter. Yahtzee as my friend CC would say! Here's a rough mockup of the new island. Pieces are in place, but not yet mounted/attached correctly. You'll see once it's complete.

You can't even really see the damage to the top, but if you look closely above the 2nd drawer from the left, on top, you'll see some indentations.

These back cabinets will be raised up on feet, in fact, raised higher than the dresser side, to make a surface that's bar height on this side, and counter height on the dresser side. All will likely get skinned with plywood and painted so it looks like custom furniture.

I can't wait until it's built and topped! It'll be a few more weeks though, since we still have to go pick out our marble top and have it fabricated . . .