Saturday, May 17, 2008

cabinet deadline is within sight

Wow. All eleven cabinet boxes are constructed. We've figured out which accessories (doors, drawers, and so on) go with each box. Tomorrow, we'll make progress installing hinges and drawer rails. And then next weekend, we'll finish the kit project and pack up the kitchen so that deconstruction and reconstruction can start just after Memorial Day.

Ikea makes the process a little time consuming but fairly straightforward. The instructions are almost entirely in pictures -- I wish I could write documentation like that -- with just a few words when absolutely necessary. And once you figure out the first one, the subsequent cabinets go together in identical fashion.

I think the resulting effect will be quite presentable. So far so good.

1 comment:

Karl Hakkarainen said...

I particularly like the pictures of two smiling people when two people are needed to carry an item and one sad person trying to carry something that requires two people.