Crazy for Cabinets - lots of pix

WHOO-HOO! Cabinets are IN the building! These will be installed tomorrow, but I couldn't wait to pass out the pix. These are not in any order, I was just in a hurry to get them up on the blog.

This pix is upside down so you can see what it will look like in place. This is the east wall upper bank which will sit over the stove.

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There are two MASSIVE cutting boards, about 2 feet across.

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Underneath one of the cutting boards is the spice drawer. Room for 96 full-size spice jars!

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Broom closet - very shallow, going on the far side of fridge (at entrance to Kitchen) so it's easily accessible for working on any part of main floor.

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Bottom section of custom sideboard, and the drawing we gave him to work from.

This will be installed at south side of Dining Room and hold silverware, dishes, tablecloths, placemats, special serving dishes etc. We deliberately asked that it be shallow (12") so that things would be easy to find. Top section is upside down in front, can't get a good pix.

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This is part of the floor-to-ceiling cabinet adjacent to fridge. The door to this center section is hinged at top to pivot up and slide inside cabinet. This is the "microwave cave". There is a small cutting board underneath this to help with moving things in and out of microwave and the fridge which will be immediately to the right.

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This is one of the more vanilla cabinets. It has pull out drawers with deep sides.

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Double-decker utensil drawer, kind of hard to see in this pix and cabinets are all pushed together. There is a knife drawer as well, but haven't found that yet.

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E and Tiny Diva. Diva is not so impressed by the cabinets or the noisy people that brought them in.

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This is one disapointment. We thought we were getting this:

and we actually got THIS.

That looks like a huge amount of wasted space there, and I'm not sure it will move out of the cabinet like we expected. L thinks there might be a clearance issue with the size, but he is going to ask Cabinet Guy about it when they do install tomorrow. I told him, feel free to make me the bad guy in that discussion. The plan was to put a 14-pc set of cookware in there.

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Finally, I'm not even sure WHERE this is, but I think it will be adjacent to stove, for pizza stone, cookie sheets, etc.

So, tomorrow, pix should be a little more organized.

I'm a little verklempt, doncha know?