Is That A, Kitchen?

Talk about a productive week. We actually started cleaning out the kitchen. Those boxes have only sat there a year. Got the doors put on the buffet. It is 80% finished . The open section will be our wine rack.

How civil, we don't have to eat in the living room.

Buffet Progress

I started assembling the buffet tonight, pretty easy. I had to put one door on just to see what they look like.

Welcome to August

It is hard to believe summer is winding down. School starts in 3 weeks. That means the push is on to get as much finished before the homes tour as possible.

All of the IKEA cabinets are together. Here is a shot with one of the doors with some of the protective film pulled back. The top and bottom pieces are almost finished and most of this should get installed this week. The top of this will be concrete (of course) with the broken red murano glass pieces in the surface and fiber optics. I am such a nerd, the concrete top will have a power unit. This is a much needed item for our house. The buffet will free up cabinet space by holding all of the wine, liquor, and barware. It will also give the cats someplace to sit and look out the back windows other than the kitchen counters. We don't let them up but surprisingly cat footprints end up on the stove nightly.

The desk top has been ground and filled. It will have to hang out a week or so to get hard enough to polish. The white concrete with the green and blue glass looks really good.
Jerad helped me rip down the baltic birch pieces for the bed. Big thanks to him for being my left hand and keeping me from doing too much. All the cuts are made and I have started gluing the pieces together.
The stainless steel hairpin pegs and headboard support for the bed. Everything came from hairpinlegs.com

IKEA Buffet

We need a buffet for the kitchen and haven't been able to find one that we like in our price range. We saw a good idea in Atomic Ranch about using some premade cabinets as a base for a buffet. I ended up ordering four upper cabinets, high gloss red doors and stainless legs. The plan is to have enclosed sections to hold barware and one open cabinet as a wine rack. Even with shipping this is by far the cheapest way to get a good sized cabinet.