...and the backsplash tiles got done.
If you look carefully, you'll note they are "groutless". The installer left us a note asking what colour grout we wanted. White was our immediate answer before seeing the tiles. Well, when we got home, the tiles themselves didn't look right to us. We thought they would be white with a silver tinge, to (a) match the stove, and (b) match the stainless steel in the hood fan. These tiles have a clearly green tone, with some silver (neither shows up well in the photos -- come see it). We couldn't pick from the grout selection the tile guy left, and besides, I have a designer to pick colours since I'm so bad at it. Called the designer; sight unseen, he said "white". We said, "better come see", and when he arrived, he was taken aback; the tiles aren't supposed to look green at all. So we remain ungrouted, since the designer isn't sure this is what he wanted.
To add more insult to injury, the striped cabinets bother both us and the designer. On the upper cabinets, the stripes line up. On the lower ones, they don't. The designer came over to see it, and wasn't bothered by this (why not, I ask). What bothered him was that the door gaps are too wide. They're supposed to be 2-4 mm; they are in fact 5-8 mm.
There's clearly a gap you can see through, and it's half as wide as the handles. Oops.
We decided to break down and load the kitchen with our "stuff" anyway. On Sunday, we started by lining the shelves with protective lining. We started at 11 AM -- and finished lining the shelves at 5 PM. So much for unpacking.
Nothing will get done at all this week (week 15), as the designer and his crew are up in Cold Lake on another install. Here's hoping that one doesn't take 16 weeks instead of the planned 9.
So we remain at least 2 weeks away from a hood fan, 1 week away from proper doors on the fridge, 1 week away from a back door, and who knows how long away from getting rid of bare lightbulbs -- never mind the cabinet door replacements.
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