Cabinets, Never-Ending Cabinets...

Well the to do list rages on while the progress keeps seeming to slow down. My resolve is worn but standing. I still don't have a kitchen somehow, but I do have my old high school diet of hot pockets and fast food back in full swing.

Me re-enforcing a cabinet (not pictured: My resolve)

For some reason it slipped my mind that when I took the cabinets out they were rotten and destroyed. So I've spent the lesser part of two days trying to be a cabinet-maker without becoming a cabinet-destroyer. I replaced the entire bottom and one of the sides on the cabinet that sat at ground-zero of the rotten mess in the kitchen.

Meanwhile in the kitchen the drywall has been installed and spackled, turned out pretty nice if I do say so myself. The top sub-layer of the floor is also installed and practically ready for tile.

To make the plumbing for the kitchen sink fit through the holes I made in the bottom of the cabinets I had to partially disassemble them, the hot-water valve was crummy anyway so I just replaced it with a new one, I even put a proper cap on the new valve instead of the kinked copper you see below.

I think the kinked copper is what will eventually go to a new dishwasher.

Finally tonight it was time to install the cabinet, I rounded up the troops and together we tested the durability of my labor. Lil' Davey on one end and The Glove on the other, I put my life (or at least limb...or at least cabinets) in their hands and crawled underneith to guide the plumbing into the holes. Coffee-House-Kate had a nice assist on the video.

It was a glorious moment for us all, but especially me. The sweet feeling of accomplishment swept over me in the name of progress.

Now to install the plumbing for the drains, etc...I've also noticed that the countertop itself is pretty rotten directly behind the sink...but am choosing to ignore that until the project wheel comes back around to the kitchen again after phase 1 is completed.

Before and after (well, middle) of ground-zero.