This week there’s been a huge amount of progress because the majority of the cabinets have arrived and they’ve been installed as well! I can’t believe how fast they all went in…and they look great! There’s a couple little issues, but nothing major and we are so happy with them.
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- The kitchen is sooooo fantastic! Joel and I are so thrilled with how it’s turning out. The hood and uppers are still missing, but just getting to see the lower cabinets is so fantastic.
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- Here’s a view from the prep island looking back into the living room. The cabinet to the left of the pass through will be replaced. I’m not sure how but the layout is all screwed up and definitely not what we ordered.
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- I love this view of the kitchen…two islands and tons of windows! And check out the ceiling! Yay!!
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- The sink looks great centered on the windows. To the left and right of the sink will be dishwashers. Do you know it costs about the same for a dishwasher as it does for a set of drawers? Who knew! With our family and lifestyle, two dishwashers is going to be a life saver.
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- Here’s a look in the laundry room. None of the upper cabinets have been installed yet, but these ones are looking pretty good! The sink isn’t centered on the window, so that’s a problem. They installed a filler strip in the back corner area that I’ll have them take out to make sure that the sink is centered. I think that’ll fix it.
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- The bench area in front of the fireplace has been installed – still waiting on the cabinets that go in the bump-in to the left of the fireplace. The TV will eventually be mounted on the wall in the bump-in area with some shelves above it too.
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- I love how my vanity is turning out. The window is centered above the desk area for makeup and getting ready. That desk portion still needs to be lowered to the correct height, but they’re waiting for another piece to do so.
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- Joel’s vanity is massive! Well, it’s at least bigger than any other bathroom vanity he’s ever had! There’s space for everything, including a pullout laundry bin on the far right.
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- Just before our master closet we had a space for cabinetry to be built in for our linen closet. I love the storage this adds…and It’ll look even better with crown moulding on top!
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- One lonely cabinet so far in the butler’s pantry which leads from the kitchen into the dining room. Eventually there will be three upper cabinets and a wine fridge in the space to the left.
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- Joel’s bar downstairs is the only ones that we didn’t do white. It’s a been wood with a java stain on them. I think it turned out really great. And will be even better once it’s finished!
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- The back wall of Joel’s bar turned out amazing. At the last minute we changed the uppers to have glass (which still needs to be installed) and we finished the inside of the cabinet to match the exterior. I love the open shelving too…couldn’t be happier.
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- Here’s another view of Joel’s bar from the entrance of it. Unfortunately we think it’s just a little to wide of a space in there. So I think we’ll have the sink base cabinet (the one straight ahead) resized 6″ smaller. The open space against the far wall (to the right of the sink cabinet) is where a small 18″ dishwasher will go.
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- The cabinets in the boys’ bath look great and are mirror opposites of each other. The drawers aren’t huge, but I don’t think they’ll need much space and they do have 4 of them each. I think it’ll be plenty – if I had daughters on they other hand, they probably would have been designed differently.
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- Here’s a closer look at Spencer’s bath vanity.
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- The guest bath is pretty easy and simple…nothing fancy here. You can also see the flooring which was installed in a 1/3 offset ‘stepped’ pattern.
Besides all of the cabinets being installed, they also fixed the top piece of the window trim and increased the size to 6″…instead of 5″. It looks so much better and much more in proportion to what would be expected.
The top trim above the windows has been changed to 6″. I love the way it looks now!
Tile also made progress this week. The installation of our master bath flooring is complete as well as the tile in the boys’ bath and the guest bath. It’s all coming together! None of the grout has been done on any of the tile, but the installation looks fantastic. Can’t complain one bit…well, maybe about the speed of which they install…but Matt warned me about that before they even started.
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- The boys’ shower tile is complete! Missing grout still, but otherwise all installed.
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- The nook in the boys bath is finished in the same gray/blue glass tile as the border underneath the chair rail. Just gives it a bit of detail in an otherwise all white bath.
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- The tile in the guest shower has been finished too. I love how the gray and white stripes turned out!
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- The tile looks great from just peeking into the shower. None of the showers will have doors on them, so no glass to clean!
Coastal Hues 
What paint color did you use for your cabinets?
We painted the cabinets Benjamin Moore’s Decorator’s White. I went back and forth between that color and White Dove. Ultimately when compared to the gray/white quartzite slabs that we selected for the kitchen and master bathroom the Decorator’s White looked much better. The White Dove has more of a creamy undertone which looked yellowish compared to the counters. I still like both colors though and think that the White Dove would have been warmer in the house but I think that Decorator’s White was more of a true white that we can pair anything with.
Thank you! I’m struggling to figure out what to paint mine. I’m building a house too, we are at rough in stage. I’ve enjoyed following along on your house! Thanks for posting! It helps keep my spirits up in this long process!