Friday the 13th. We get our tools together and tarps down on the frontroom and TV room floors, in preparation for the product delivery. We tape the IKEA instructions up on the TV entertainment unit so we may refer to them often.
The cabinets (etc.) arrived at 1 PM.
The cabinets (etc.) arrived at 1 PM.
We put the big boxes for the pantry and long toe kick boards in the TV room, since the pantry should be put together first. 117 boxes altogether!
"What have we gotten ourselves into?"
We start checking off the delivered boxes against the long inventory sheet to ensure that everything was delivered. Michael noticed that six of the 117 boxes (WHEW!) were the wrong color, and IKEA only had a few left of the right color. I had to drive 17 miles to IKEA to replace them pronto. After some twists and turns in getting this done quickly, I was back home by 2:40 PM.
Thankfully, Michael had already started putting together the smallest wall cabinet to find out how the IKEA instructions worked.
Pretty darn simple construction!
Next, we put together the 88" pantry unit. Since it starts the leftmost run of cabinets in the kitchen, it was to be installed first.
Putting on the hinges
Checking the level. Since I wanted maximum utility from the pantry, I chose the 88" model which barely fit underneath the soffet.
The 15" cabinet next to the pantry went next. But we felt we couldn't install either cabinet because there are no studs near where IKEA wants them to be for their metal rail system to work properly.
So . .. instead of continuing to hem and haw about how to alter the instructions for the lack of studs in the right place, we decided to put together the rest of the cabinets first then and set them in place (like IKEA advises). The rest of the day we opened boxes, laid out the wood pieces and hardware, then screwed everything in place. Over and over and over and over again. Michael did more to put the drawer rails inside the base cabinets and I put together the drawer innerds and face panels.
We got a LOT done that day.
Thankfully, Michael had already started putting together the smallest wall cabinet to find out how the IKEA instructions worked.
Pretty darn simple construction!
Next, we put together the 88" pantry unit. Since it starts the leftmost run of cabinets in the kitchen, it was to be installed first.
The 15" cabinet next to the pantry went next. But we felt we couldn't install either cabinet because there are no studs near where IKEA wants them to be for their metal rail system to work properly.
Putting on the hinges
Checking the level. Since I wanted maximum utility from the pantry, I chose the 88" model which barely fit underneath the soffet.
The 15" cabinet next to the pantry went next. But we felt we couldn't install either cabinet because there are no studs near where IKEA wants them to be for their metal rail system to work properly.
So . .. instead of continuing to hem and haw about how to alter the instructions for the lack of studs in the right place, we decided to put together the rest of the cabinets first then and set them in place (like IKEA advises). The rest of the day we opened boxes, laid out the wood pieces and hardware, then screwed everything in place. Over and over and over and over again. Michael did more to put the drawer rails inside the base cabinets and I put together the drawer innerds and face panels.
We got a LOT done that day.
We got a LOT done that day.
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