KyleWest's Kitchen

Lol. I was just scrolling through for first time today and saw this. :) Well...I've told everyone they have to be done and out by Thursday. We'll see. Kitchen is great. Was like Whack-A-Mole getting it right, but now it is. Pretty damn great I think. All the thought that went into the planning has paid off as it came together. Design and finish of the crown moulding, bases, panels, handles, countertops and how they're finished as edges and corners, sink (nice and big, but not too big), awesome to touch faucet that looks like a retro R2D2 to me, layout that works for way I cook, tons of storage, great utilization of space. It looks great and the glimpse of it you can see from rest of living area (b/c kitchen is partially open) works well with overall design I think.

The kitchen millworkers/designers have been very cooperative and positive, but they generated a lot of extra work for themselves with the small mistakes they made that were avoidable I think. Still, buying from them without a middle man was great. Saved about 25% over what this would have cost at MCKB and got a truly 100% customized kitchen. I wasn't given a set # of choices of things at any point on any design element--it was more of a fill-in-the-blank with anything I had in mind.
The last 5% of the reno is generating 95% of my aggravation for the job overall, though. Kind of like getting the space shuttle to the space station is great, but unless it can dock the mission fails. Here, unless the finish work comes together just so, the rest doesn't really matter. So I've been stressed and a lunatic and uber-involved in this finish phase. If all goes well, we move in about 14 days.

Thanks for asking.

One day, all this aggro will be a distant memory. Hang in there.

do we kill the contractor or the entire extended family?
Remember if it's just the contractor we kill...it went well!