Once we had our new (and gorgeous) floors installed it was time to tackle the kitchen cabinets. Because we had removed all the existing cabinets to create a clean slate, we had a lot of cabinets to buy and a modest budget to do it on. Our first instinct was to go with IKEA cabinets which have a reputation for having very solid boxes that are DIY friendly, but after months of building virtual rooms at ikea.com and visiting the store we decided that they weren't quite what we had in mind. The process of the designing the room with the online tool about 100 times did however get us to a point where we knew exactly what we wanted for a layout, so when we found the perfect slab style cherry cabinets from Thomasville at Home Depot we could tell the kitchen designer exactly what we wanted. To top it off because of an amazing sale at the store we got 30% off of our cabinets and countertops which let us upgrade to quartz for the countertops and fancy storage inserts.
All that was left was for us to install the cabinets ourselves.........NOT! We know our DIY limits and installing thousands of dollars of cabinets and doing fine finish carpentry is outside that scope. Luckily for us, Home Depot provides very reasonably priced installation services that include a warranty.
A few weeks later Mike, our installer, showed up and made quick work of hanging the cabinets, installing door hardware (from IKEA), and adding custom trim details to make everything look polished.
All that was left was to install our "Yukon Blanco" quartz countertops add a backsplash, and get the plumbing to work.
The floors look awesome!
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