Day Six-fifty-one: kitchen (still cont.)

Maybe it's natural when getting close to the end that you start to let up or maybe we're just making more time for other interests, but when we typically spend only the weekend working on the kitchen then progress is slow and steady. But that's what won the race, right?

Part of what we've been painting and sealing were shelves to install above the oven for quick access to some everyday use items. Well those shelves went up this weekend.

If you think it's a coincidence that the shelves line up with the lower rungs of the shelf attached to the new cabinet, then you don't know us very well. Aesthetics are always a consideration, which may be one reason why a simple project can take 2 or 3 times longer than you'd expect.

We also advanced all of the drawer fronts and doors to their next phases. Here are all the drawer fronts--painted and stained and now with markings for where to drill the holes for the handles. The next step is to attach them to the drawers.

With the drawer fronts out of the way we moved a stack of doors into position for their two coats of sealer (this is about half the doors).

The cabinet that we took down and sanded clean also got its first coat of primer.

Finally, we spent more quality time with the orbital sander and got a big chunk of cabinets done. All that remains is the little part around the sink. We also have to figure out how to make the fake drawer in front of the sink into a tilt-out drawer.

As a flashback, here's what this side of the kitchen looked like a few weeks ago.