Our kitchen renovation drama would be fit for a reality TV series. We take one step ahead and two steps back next day; one day we are exuberant that we are going to see the finish line soon to come crashing down with a thud next day. So yeah, our countertops got installed last night, with appropriate gas permits coming by as well so naturally we are excited.
Except, when I and wife are admiring the kitchen island last night we realize something … is off. After a few minutes we realize to our utter horror that the base cabinets on which the kitchen island sits are not alined with the wall cabinet line. The result is a skewed line where on one end of wall cabinets we have less clearance space between the island & cabinets than on the other side. The difference is almost 2 inches and when viewed in context it really shows bad. This is not something we’d have realized it until the counter top was put in to give that visual context, but once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
I pinged our contractor last night and he immediately responded he’d be here this morning. Mind you these guys do kitchens all the time so I am willing to give them benefit of doubt that this was a genuine goofup of some sorts, but the fact is there is significant undoing and redoing of work that needs to happen. The kitchen island now needs to come off (which has been glued already, ugh!), then the cabinets need to be detached from the holding board below, then the board itself will need to be decoupled from the hardwood below. Once readjusted, all of this will have to be repeated in reverse, and we’ll need to replace all the hardwood near that area coz its all been screwed into.
So yeah, we just set ourselves back couple of days. Oh joy!