OK, I just decided to do it -- I'm going to post my "finished" kitchen even though it still has no undercabinet lights, new window shade, rug, etc. That's okay.
We've been cooking in it for 6 weeks now so it must be finished! We started in mid-July and started using it again...
The crack installation team just left after their second visit, and the place is FINALLY coming together!! I can't believe the difference with the blue plastic off -- that color was making me ill! So we are almost done, now -- just waiting for the hood to be altered so it can be raised. If the range...
A crack pair of official IKEA installers came and installed about 90% of our kitchen on Saturday morning -- in only four and a half hours! It was incredible! So now we can see the shape of it, though obviously the blue film is still on (Abstrakt white cabs), the toe kicks aren't in yet, and the handles,...
We have moved out of our kitchen, sealed the whole thing off, and moved into our basement (ahem, lower level) as our temporary living room, dining room, and kitchen!
The temporary kitchen is great! We love eating by an open window with a view of the back garden, even though we have...
I wasn't going to write about putting in our order because I thought, well, who but my mom, for example, would want to read about this? But I read about other people's orders, and maybe someone gearing up for theirs would want to read this too.