August 19, 2009: Cabinets Mostly In

On Wednesday, we went out to the house in the evening (Preethi had been there at lunch) to inspect the cabinet installation. While we liked the colors and most of the design, there's some installation issues that need to be resolved.

View of the cabinets from the great room. Preehi is inspecting some doors (more on this later).

We just have cabinets along two walls (and the island seen here).

The microwave cabinet. That's a gigantic gap between the doors which we're not happy about at all as we got full overlay doors which per usual installation has less than 1/8" of an inch of a gap. (See here for a general discussion of cabinet door types). Here, this is well over 1/4 inch and you can see straight into the cabinet.

Unfortunately the massive gaps aren't constrained to just that one pair of doors. All of them were like this where you can clearly see straight into the cabinet.

As to the source of the problem, Preethi is leaning to issues originating with the cabinet designer as the cabinet installer said that was as close as he could get the doors. I'm leaning towards issues on the installation as cabinet doors typically have a lot room for adjustment. And while I didn't have a screwdriver with me to make the adjustments, I have seen this photo from the manufacturer of the line we bought where there are no ginormous gaps.

Regardless, it'll be a fun conversation tomorrow morning.

Preethi's vanity in the master bathroom. It looks better installed (not intended as a full overlay so there's framing between the doors) though Preethi thought there was supposed to be paneling on the right side drawers to match the paneling on the left side doors.

A vanity in the Jack and Jill (this one looks as it should).

The foyer tile was grouted today. Here's what it looks like now. We're happy with it.

Not all cabinets are in place, but most are.