Building the deck and oven cabinet

I know I haven't posted in a few weeks but it's because I kept forgetting the camera, not for lack of work.

Last week I built the oven cabinet, installed the double ovens and the cooktop.



We also got our sink faucet in, it's a really nice bridge faucet in oil rubbed bronze from Signature Hardware.



We spent last weekend landscaping the front of the house. I probably should have rebuilt the front porch first but the yard was looking really bad.




The landscaping is a mix of boxwood, holly, gardenia, and azalea.

The big project we've been working on is the deck. First I had to tear down the old porch deck. I had to cut it apart section by section. I had wanted to save the flooring, it was a full 1" thick, but it was very moldy so I couldn't.


There is a well under where the porch was next to the kitchen door, I'm not sure what I am going to do with it.



With the area cleared out I could begin building the new deck. First I hung the ledger boards, Then I placed the piers that will hold up the brace beam. I dug holes at each location and filled them with concrete to give the piers a solid foundation. I also had to prime the side of the sunroom before I installed the ledger board on it.

Then I built the beam. It is built out of 2 pressure treated 2x10's sandwiched together. The span is 21' long, there are no 2x10's that long so I had to make each beam 10' 6". I installed an extra pier at the location where they meet in the middle.


The deck will extend another 2' 6" beyond the beam, right up to the old stairs. I plan on keeping them.

I forgot the joist hangers so I had to leave it at that today. Hopefully I can get back out there tomorrow and finish installing the joists and put the decking down.

Granite!

Kitchen Cabinets

The cabinet guy showed up with the hood vent and the rest of our cabinets today (minus a door that he is still waiting on). The first thing I did was to install the final upper cabinet and install the mullion doors on the end cabinet (we were shorted a hinge).

Next I built the pantry and fridge cabinet (the pantry cabinet is the one we're waiting on a door for) and then installed the fridge.



We're really not happy with how the hood vent turned out. I'll probably end up getting the parts and building my own (if you want it done right, you gotta do it yourself...).


By the way, I dont know what the deal is with my camera, it's a new one and a really good one but these pictures do the cabinets NO justice at all. I think it's the lighting and the settings I have the camera on...



There is still a lot left to do, install the end panels on all the cabinets with exposed sides, valence above the sink, crown and light bars, toekicks, and build the oven cabinet.

Finishing up the sub-floor

Not much work got done yesterday. I put self leveling cement down on the new sub-floor.


Also the granite company came out to make a template for the counter-top.

Kitchen subfloor

Yesterday I installed the leveled subfloor for the kitchen.



You can see our new dishwasher in the second picture.

I also installed some more sheetrock and set up the pantry cabinet.

Kitchen cabinets

The kitchen cabinet install is coming along nicely. Today we hung the upper cabinet above where the hood vent will be and the 12" one next to it. We are still waiting on the 15" cabinet that goes to the left of the window and the upper wall oven cabinet.

We also installed all the shelves and hung the doors on all the upper cabinets.



The empty space above the corbels is where the hood vent will go. The wall oven cabinet will sit to the far right.

Hanging the cabinets

We began hanging the cabinets yesterday.


We only had 2 cabinets up before we noticed that they screwed our order up. We have 3 cabinets that sit 6" higher than the rest. These 3 have to be 15" instead of 12" to give the crown on the cabinets on either side something to butt up to. Well they gave us 12" cabinets. We checked the sheet and it has the 3 15" cabinets on them so we did order them. The problem is the cabinet people are now on vacation in Jamaica until next Friday.

Here are the 3 upper cabinets we got installed. The lower in the picture is just there for reference.

Since we cant do anything more with the cabinets we're going to turn our attention to other things this weekend.

Cabinets have arrived!

We've turned our attention back to the kitchen because our cabinets have arrived. On Wednesday I put down some self leveling cement on the sub-floor to seal the joints and level the floor.


Yesterday we worked on finishing up the sheetrock.



Here is a peek at our new cabinets.



I'm hoping to have them installed by the end of this weekend.