{"id":427,"date":"2010-08-20T21:19:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T01:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/?p=427"},"modified":"2010-09-08T21:22:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T01:22:28","slug":"cabinet-installation-day-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jillcarson.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/cabinet-installation-day-12\/","title":{"rendered":"cabinet installation – day 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I mowed my lawn. Oh wait, that’s not what you’re here for. But it’s relevant, you see, because to mow my lawn, I borrowed my dad’s lawnmower, which meant my dad was at my house. And with only a very little persuasion, he awesomely agreed to help me hang the rest of the upper cabinets. So all of my uppers are up! I still have to gang them together, cut filler for the ends against the front wall (since the doors will open towards the wall, having at least a little space for them to swing is a good thing), and tighten them all. But they are on the wall, and they are awesome!<\/p>\n

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I also built my first base cabinet, which you can kinda see in the living room in the third shot below. Base cabinets are big after you’ve gotten used to dealing with the upper cabinets.<\/p>\n

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The glowing dots in the living room are Dante’s eyes, because she’s decided cabinets are awesome and she’s going to hang out near them as much as possible – we had to eject her from the upper cabinets so we could install them, and she was decidedly not helpful during the base cabinet assembly, with that typical cat ability to always be sitting on the next part I needed.<\/p>\n

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The paper taped to the window in this one is the poster IKEA provides with hanging instructions, all conveniently on one side so you don’t have to flip through a book of diagrams when you’re dealing with the actual installation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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