Day One

After a rushed morning of final preparations, I was glad that the contractor was about 30 minutes late. Jim arrived with two guys, one of whom will be our project manager, Oscar. Jim and I talked over the plans and the couple of changes we've made since he received the drawings--including the replacement of the floor, the work in the den, and some electrical. After writing the big check, I headed to work.

During the day, Brian confirmed with ABT our order of our new TV for the den. We decided to add this work to the project, since the flat-panel bracket will require revision of the wall framing and some electrical work. The TV will arrive along with the appliances. Brian scouted out another good deal.

I confirmed that our floor had arrived at iFloor and is available for pickup. I also called ABT to slide our appliance installation by a week.Arriving home, we found that the nearly all of the cabinets had been dismantled and that all of the appliances, except for the fridge, had been taken away. The cabinets haven't been discarded yet, but are stacked in the den. The Mexican appliance scavengers took the appliances away in their questionably road-worthy pickup truck. No surprises today. We're just struck by the oddity of having two sets of kitchen cabinets--one in the process of assembly and one in the process of disassembly--in two non-kitchen rooms of our house.