Well, after much aggravation my cabinets started going in last evening. Yes, in the evening which meant that when I arrived home from work it was dark in the kitchen (there is NO electric connected in it yet!) so I really couldn't get a good look at them *pouts* However, from what I saw they look so appropriate to my home (Craftsman, 1915) and I'm very pleased.

There are some issues - we found out the floor is out of plumb, ridiculously so. The installer had to do some fancy footwork to get things to fit in the corner but he did some shaving of the blind cabinet and got things to fit from that point onward. Also, I noticed he put one of the uppers in upside down (or the door the wrong way) which will have to be fixed today (it's over one of the doors which flank the range and those doors obviously have to open away from the range, and he has this cabinet opening the opposite way which will look really odd with the pulls un-aligned over each other).

And then, there was one other issue I can't even describe where the bottoms of the cabinet don't line up in an area where there is a beam crossing the ceiling but that isn't such a big deal as you won't see the bottom of that cabinet from any point of the room other then when sitting at the kitchen table - so I told him just make it work to the best of your ability (it will only be off maybe by 1" or less).

We'll see what today brings. He expects to be finished by tonight and he IS bringing some flood lamps with him this time (it was partially our fault for not informing him there was no electric in the room but we never expected originally that he would be working only late in the day - he was a "backup installer" from our contractor, and he's on another job during the daytime).

So - now we'll wait for the one wrong cabinet to arrive (over the sink - no big deal). He goes on vacation inbetween until end September, but it probably won't arrive until he's back and it gives time for the counter to be done anyway, and the flooring and other smaller items to be finished. We can do final inspection without him doing his finish work.

Pictures as soon as we get some light on the job and I'm around to take them!