Last night, Doug and I were eating dinner when he casually asked, "So, what's the next household project?"
Thinking "FENCE!", I calmly said, "The kitchen, then we can start drywalling downstairs."
He smiled. "I've been thinking all day about drywalling!" Then he realized that my first suggestion was not drywalling. "What's wrong with the kitchen?"
After sighing and rolling my eyes, I started enumerating the many faults of the kitchen-that-almost-was-finished. The doors on the cabinets don't open from the center out.
The bottom hasn't been fixed yet in this picture - both upper and lower cabinets all opened to the left. |
Again, just one example of many... |
There are random screws that have never been screwed in - mostly because they don't fit and just need a shorter version put in.
We need handles on the doors, so we're not constantly prying the doors open from the sides (which is doing a number on the sliding mechanism) or the bottom (which would be better but is always second choice).
In the way of improvements, I want to get rid of one of the top cabinets and put up shelving on either side of the range hood so that it looks, well, not symmetrical, but more purposeful. And as if they have a purpose.
Doug then shocked me by starting in on the work in the kitchen. No kidding! He fixed the cabinet door that had been split before we moved in (gotta keep responsibility where it lies, right? Otherwise known as My Kids Are Not Breaking Everything - Yet).
Glue drying on the split cabinet...I can't even see where it was broken anymore. |
And we've been waiting for a year to do that? Seriously?
Then he took down the upper cabinet. Or tried to. It was resisting all efforts in that direction.
Hanging on for dear life |
See the little hole? That's where the screw is located - without a head to unscrew it. Bad screw! |
Doug made me remove his little helper shortly after this shot |
Viola! No cabinet! |
Now I just need shelving. Not bad for an evening's work, huh? He must really want to drywall.
Very nice!!! It's amazing how much one can get done when he sets his mind to it!
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