From The Chaos, A New Kitchen Begins To Sprout

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​FROM THE CHAOS, A NEW KITCHEN BEGINS TO SPROUT

...Continued from 9/19/2021
   The darkest hour may be just before dawn, but in the case of a kitchen remodeling job the darkest hour has to be just before your torn-apart kitchen starts to be put back together again.
​   For me that darkest hour was last Sunday, that is, a week ago today, when, after having gone through the first week of demolition, electrical reconfiguration, and reconstructive drywalling, my kitchen looked like this:

...while the rest of the first floor remained in its state of dusty general chaos.
       However the next day, Monday, the cabinets arrived, and piece by piece,

...row by row,

...we watched our kitchen begin to  grow.

       By Tuesday I'd gained sufficient clarity to be able to decide on the color of the new refrigerator, stove, microwave and dishwasher we'd be adding. I'd previously thought that in order to offset the blonde wood cabinetry white would be the best color for the new appliances. But when I saw the cabinets with their silver hardware,

...I had an Aha! Silver! moment and decided on silver, aka stainless steel. I shared my decision with the cabinet installation team leader who tipped me off that I should try to purchase the four pieces as a set, as one can often get a discount in buying this way.
​      And so Tuesday evening Tom and I ventured out to Lowes,

...where we looked over the wares, 

...and did, in fact, succeed in snagging ourselves a four-piece Frigidaire set at a 10% discount.
   By Thursday afternoon our sink and dishwasher were gone and all the cabinets were in place and wrapped up, ready for the drywallers who would arrive the next day to put the finishing touches on the walls and ceiling.

      Also on Thursday the countertop rep came to take the final measurements for the countertops. The rep told us that our counter tops would arrive on October 7, the date we'd been given by our project manager. He also told us that we were lucky that we had ordered our countertops when we did, back in June. He said that orders placed these days had a delivery date twenty-seven weeks out. He said it was due to a shortage of workers to cut the materials, load the materials, drive the materials, and do all the other things that need to be done to get the materials to the customers.
And I thought, And a few days ago there were thousands of Haitians huddling under a bridge outside of Texas who would do anything for a job cutting, loading, and delivering materials to customers. Companies need workers. Refugees need work. Is this rocket science?
        Anyway, there will be no further work done on our kitchen until October 7 when the counter tops are scheduled to arrive, and the next day the new sink will, hopefully, be installed.
        Until then my house will remain a quiet mess and my sinkless kitchen will stay under wraps.

     I will survive.