Inspection

Oh, there's that lynch pin we've been looking for. The electrical inspection was completed and approved today, so the guys can now close up the walls and prep for paint. The base cabinets should be in in a week and we are about two weeks from doing the floor. So appliances should be installed in about two and a half weeks (Eirik is very excited about this bit). After the appliances is the counter top install, sink and faucet and then it's just finishing touches.

Upper Cabinets

Now we're talking - all the upper cabinets are now in place and ready for the electricians to install the outlets and light switches.






The fridge will go right in here.


The microwave will pop in here.

No More Holes

Among other things today, Luis and Alex patched up most of the holes made when they did the recessed lighting. Ahhh. You can also see where the wall used to be. Soon, you won't even be able to tell there used to be a wall there.

Here and There

This past week has been filled with some of those small jobs that weren't especially visible but necessary just the same. One of those jobs was removing the header from the old pantry.



Cabinets will go here. Level is good. And yes, if you zoom in super-close, it is actually very level.


This is the vent pipe from the old stove. The new stove will be in a different location and has different venting requirements, so we can't re-use this one.

Mystery Circle Thingies

So who can guess what these are?


That's right - they are the discs that were cut out when they were fishing wires. They'll just pop 'em back in when they're all done.

Little Bits

The guys were only here for a few hours this afternoon and got a couple of little things done.
Several of the outlets and switches will be mounted under the cabinets, so they got started running the wires for that on a couple of the upper cabinets in the kitchen.



They also punched a wire through into the living room for the thermostat since the wall where it used to live is gone. I think we're going to ask them to move this a little.

New Design Feature?

No, not a new modern art design feature - just wire fish holes so that Raul could get wire from the switches to the fixtures.


This is the dining room wall. The blue circles are where the new sconces will go.


Dining room recessed lights.


Kitchen recessed lights. The blue guy is where one of the pendant lights will go.

Old Lighting Fixtures

Here are the old kitchen and dining room lighting fixtures. Won't be needing those anymore.

After Cleanup

The guys did a bang-up job cleaning up, so you can see the new elements a little better here.

Outlets

The microwave will be located along this wall. The fridge used to be here, so we're going to re-use that outlet.



The guys also relocated the wiring Eirik did for internet, etc. to this wall because the wall it used to be on no longer exists.


They also moved the other wiring box that used to be in the cabinet on kitchen side. You can see it now down there under the window. There's also going to be a scone on the wall to the right of the window. The blue box down there is where we can plug in all our gadgets =)


It's handy to be able to plug things like mixers in when you're working at an island - that's what these yellow wires are for.