brooksmoses | So we have new cabinets.

They've been putting in new kitchen and bathroom cabinets in all the apartments in our complex. This started sometime in February, and we were told that it would probably be mid-March when the crews got to our apartment, but ... well, apparently things are slow.

They timed it exceptionally conveniently for

suzimoses, too -- she's in Boston on vacation, and thus doesn't have to deal with any of it. Meanwhile, I got to take her to the airport at 5am this morning (giving me about four hours of sleep), and get back in time to have a couple of hours of nap before I had to be up and ready for the construction crew to arrive.

Anyhow, they showed up, and we moved a couple more small things out of the way, and they immediately started tearing out the old cabinets which much loud hammering noises and splintering of wood, and I left for work.

Now that I've returned, I find that they've done all of the installation, but they need to return tomorrow to grout the tiles behind the stove, and paint a bunch of newly-patched and jointed wallboard where the configuration of the counters has changed.

Speaking of which: we seem to have one fewer broom closet than we used to, and about 30" more counter space in the kitchen. The counters do stick about five or six inches out into the carpeted area (all of the bits of the kitchen -- the different floor, the different ceiling, and the counters on either side -- used to end at one place, but now they're sort of weirdly uneven), and we also have counter where the broom closet had been. This does mean that we have rather a bit less storage space, though.

The bathroom counter is about the same size as the old one, so not much change there. They did replace the in-wall medicine cabinet, and I rather wish they hadn't -- the original one was nice solid wood, and the current one is a cheap molded plastic unit with a mirror door that wobbles as if it were cheap molded plastic too; it looks like something one could pick up at the dollar store.

Anyhow, pictures of the current state of things:

Kitchen

Bathroom

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They look nice! Now let's have a closeup of your fridge poetry or whatever that is. :-)

Fridge miscellany. I don't remember what I wrote on it when I was there. (They've got some political ones and some Elizabethan English ones, which are used quite fluidly.)

I think one of the sentences that's been there for a while is 'fondle my left peasant bosom'.

Yes. Manipulate the left peasant bosom. I'm not sure if it is a 'the' or a "my" though.

Manipulate and left are from the political rant set, the others would obviously be from shakespeare.

Our fridge poetry is combined of two sets that work /quite/ well together thankyouverymuch.

Shakespeare, and political ranting. Tends to produce things like the "manipulate my left peasant bosom" that

lilarien mentioned. Also on there is the ever popular "Fear the codpiece conspiracy." I'll see if I can prod Brooks into posting more pics.

They aren't white.

They. Aren't. White?

No broom closet?

Mirror'd medicine cabinet?

They aren't white?

They don't go all the way to ceiling?

????

suzi, rather confused

Nope. They're a light wood, with a sort of gray mottled graniteish top in the kitchen, and a molded marble top in the bathroom.

There is no broom closet.

There is a Dollar-store abomination with a mirror'd front which is purporting to be a medicine cabinet.

And, no, they don't go all the way to the ceiling; they stop about 8" short. Thus a large part of the painting they need to do.

It is rather confusing. I had a dream this morning about someone coming through and redecorating the house I grew up in with all sorts of inexplicable add-on changes. And then my mother decided to paint a mural of sun partly behind fog on one of the walls.

Well, I think I like the light wood. But you can see it better than I can. What thinks you?

I'm dissapointed in the lack of a broom closet. What ever shall we do with our broom?

Can we berak the medicine cabinet? Drape cloth over it? Panel it? Hey, they replaced the burned out bulbs! Any chance of them changing the filter?

So we can now store stuff on /top/ of the cabinets. Hmmm. Well. Ok. Nicknacks?

*chuckles at the dream*

It looks good to me; I like it.

I don't know what we'll want to do with the medicine cabinet; I suppose we could put a hand-towel over it....

Hey! They cleaned our stove!

Sadly, no. It's just that it wasn't that dirty, and what's there doesn't show up in the photo.

They didn't clean the top of the fridge either, preferring to drop bits of ceiling patching compound on it.

Ah, I see. Darn. And darn again regarding top o' fridge.

suzi

They timed it exceptionally conveniently for suzimoses, too -- she's in Boston on vacation, and thus doesn't have to deal with any of it. Meanwhile, I got to take her to the airport at 5am this morning (giving me about four hours of sleep), and get back in time to have a couple of hours of nap before I had to be up and ready for the construction crew to arrive.

I'm really sorry it worked out that way love. I hope you're catching up on sleep today.

So we have new cabinets.

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