Using Your Head

As children our parents always told us to "use our heads".  I'm not sure it was a literal remark but I did what I was told. 

Steve and I always watch the home fix it shows on television and of course we never listen to what that tell you.  From what I remember, they suggest putting up a ledger board to hod up the upper cabinets until they were attached to the wall and you use the ledger board so you don't have to use your head to hold up the units. Who ever heard of such a silly way to do things.  God gave us a head and a neck so I used mine.  Unfortunately, after we got the cabinet on my head attached to the wall we read the directions only to learn that you're supposed to use clamps to hook them together then lift them onto the supposed ledger board.  Isn't that just too silly.
 

So we got the wall cabinets up and off my head then started on the lowers.  Our original plan (all taped out on the floor with blue painter's tape) called for a square corner as we thought a Lazy Susan would be too expensive.  Well, we changed our minds and bought Susan and she seems to have changed our lives not to mention our plan.  Just like a woman.  We started in the back and put the lowers under the cabinets that were on my head.   That was simple as there were two places left open for under counter refrigerators.    Then we went to the other corner and started with the sink unit.  Because the pipe was sticking out of the floor from the construction we had to cut a part of the base cabinet out to accommodate the pipes.  We went along and made the turn with Susan.  We continued on with the run forming a peninsula.  It looked pretty good if I do say so myself.   We clamped everything together then hooked the units to each other and praised ourselves for a job sell done. 

So we thought, what the hell, let's assemble the counter tops that came in two pieces.  We followed the instructions and did it upside down on cardboard.  We put the little adjuster things on the bottom then pulled it apart again and put the glue in.  We let it sit over night.  Well, when we pushed the two pieces back together the glue stuck the counter top to the cardboard which meant a bit of cleaning and a bit of laughing. 

We hoisted the top onto the base cabinets and it just didn't fit.  We were close but it was just not quite right.  As we looked, we didn't cut the hole for the floor pipes large enough and the first cabinet was off about 1/2 inch so we had to pull it all apart, cut the hole bigger and push it over the half inch.  Then Susan got ugly about it and didn't want to cooperate.  She seemed to be twisted, and I'm not going to comment on that anymore.  After the adjustment the top fit splendidly and we attached the counter top to the base units and it looks like a bar.   Now we will build a wall to set the actual drinking part and that will be finished. 

One side story.  Steve and I hate our kitchen in Florida and said that if the bar in the basement went well we'd do the Florida kitchen ourselves.  In closing, we will be hiring a carpenter.