Kitchen cabinets

We finally ordered the kitchen cabinets. But it was not without a considerable amount of stress -- possibly the most stressful part of this project. I don't recommend designing a kitchen in a short period of time. It would have been nice to give the process four to six months, rather than the two months it took.

Our architect did a gazillion iterations with the kitchen cabinet designer at the store. The problem with iterating on modular cabinets is that you're making decisions without understanding the total price implications. Even though the kitchen cabinet designer was pretty good about telling us relative pricing tradeoffs, the lack of transparency in the pricing made it a bit more stressful. When we got our final design, it turned out that the information we'd been given about the price differential between the two cabinet models we were deciding between was not exactly accurate. So the cabinets wound up costing quite a bit more than we'd anticipated. But, due to the circumstances surrounding the sale, the store gave us a big break on the price, and we ordered the cabinets. I did think for a moment of scrapping it all, but the thought of having to go through this again just gave me the willies!

Now that the cabinets are ordered, I feel at peace :) I know that they'll be really nice, and I don't have to worry about them any more until they arrive in May. We almost certainly will be moving back in without a kitchen, however. But that's also fine.

If you want to see the cabinets, you can go to http://www.poliform.it and click on Poliform by Varenna, and in their collection, you can look at Matrix, Compasizione 3, which shows the style and the wood (but obviously, not the configuration, since that's kitchen dependent).

I now have to submit a permit application for the kitchen, as it wasn't part of the original plans. But since all the structural pieces (changes to the walls) were already submitted in the original permit, it should take a day to get the new permit.