I am going to sleep, watch two "West Wings," do something about my emailbox, sleep, paint the landing ceiling and trim, sleep, call RPR's baby shower, sleep, buy something for another baby shower and go to that in person, sleep, empty the cupboards around the stove (three of four done), and sleep, and that will be Saturday. Sunday I hope to snowshoe, finally, and cap the day at Hot Sulphur Springs. Also I am going read Everything Is Illuminated.
Coordinating the kitchen work is going to make my eyes bug out of my ears. After I empty those particular cabinets, they need to come off the wall, which will damage the plaster. An, I hope, multi-talented electrician will inspect the kitchen and attic (which means emptying RDC's closet, removing the rod, and setting up the ladder) next week and give a price to install the hood. At that point, the hood begins to make its way to the house, either within a week from the distributor or in a couple of months from the manufacturer; and as soon as the hood is a certainty, we can order the cabinets, which will also take six to eight weeks to arrive. In the interim, we repair the plaster.
I found two methods to repair plaster. One talks about plasterboard so I think actually means drywall. (Perhaps I can use that method to repair the hole in my study ceiling.) The other relies on luck: "Cut around the hole, making sure not to damage more plaster." It doesn't give any tips about how not to damage the plaster.
And I thought tiling the backsplash would happen at our own pace, after we had Other People install the cabinets and countertops and replaced the range, but it has to happen before the range goes in. That means we have to decide about tiles before the counter goes in, before we get a feel for how the counter will look in the room.
I toted a 12-inch square piece of Blue Pearl granite about the store and RDC saw that the cobalt blue sink did not match. So the sink will be stainless steel. Also we upgraded from a drop-in to an undermounted sink. The Great Indoors gave us a much more manageable three-inch square sample to take home. It goes really well with the pale blue on the back landing that I plan to apply to the kitchen.
After emptying the cabinets, my next step is to look at tile, bringing the granite chip and the Behr* Ocean Air paint card and the, sadly, mere catalog photograph of the cabinets along. It's actually a fun prospect.
But I begin to see why redoing a kitchen will always burgeon beyond the four- to six-week plan people think about.
* Yeah, Behr. I decided to paint the landing while standing in Home Depot, hence violating the vow we took never to buy Behr again. Besides, the front landing will be in Behr as well, the same sage as most of the upstairs.
** I'm not going to link the color because it displays online as green, whereas on the chip and the wall it's blue.