super duper cab update

I've been pretty busy in the real world but I'm still truckin' right along. They're not all in place yet (or visible here) but I only have one left to build. I would've installed more of the doors/drawers, but I have a couple of minor hardware snafus holding me up...

• I received the extra legs I ordered from Ikea. Though they're a little cheap and easy to break if you slide a heavy cab sideways too much, the easily adjustable height is a godsend, as predicted. You just throw a big level on the cab edges and twirl the legs 'til it's all even-steven. This must be a million times easier (and accurate) than shoving a bunch of wood shims under them. The counter installation man is gonna love me.

Can't remember if I mentioned this before, but having your cabs on four-inch plastic legs also is a huge advantage if the kitchen ever floods. The old cabs I pulled out were mostly junk (and thus un-donatable) because they had no legs and the particle board on the bottoms was weakened by water damage, causing them to break the instant I moved them. If the new ones ever get wet, the worst thing that'll happen is the plinths will get wet and need replacing.  (plinth is the wood or metal on the very bottom, also known as toe kicks. Mine have a way of mounting these to the fronts of the legs) This holds true as long as the kitchen doesn't flood with over four inches of water, but if it does, I'll probably have far bigger issues.

• It's hard to see in the pic, but at the top of the big cab on the left you can see the mounting rail for the wall-mount cabs. I still have one more wall cab that goes to the right of the big cab on the left but I need more special Ikea hardware to hang it on the rail. I'm actually attaching the high cabs (I have two more) to the rail in addition to the wall cabs for stability, and Ikea doesn't provide you with the hardware to do that, so I ordered it; it's on the way (I used the hardware for hanging the last wall cab to secure the big high cab). I also needed to order an extra mounting rail, but it was only $6. Hooray for el cheapo Ikea.

• Two of the metal brackets for mounting drawers arrived bent and mangled so Ikea is sending replacements. I can't mount the drawers in the cabs under the window until those arrive. They were very nice when I called, and they're even sending aforementioned extra hardware free.

As soon as the missing hardware gets here I'll mount the remaining cabs, then I'll figure out how to build the island and get cracking on that. In the meantime, I called handyman Keith, and he's coming out this week to fix the power in the non-working Sputnik lamp and to survey for the plumbing and electrical madness that will need to occur for the island.

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