Today I got cover panels on, filler in, and the standard corner cabinet carousel. And I cleaned all my stuff out of the space so my contractor has space to actually work when he comes tomorrow. The big thing was the cover panels for my pantry – they sell you a panel that’s 24 5/8″ wide, and the pantry is 12 1/4″ deep. So you have to cut the panel precisely in half to cover each side of the pantry – this makes it so you can’t see the suspension rail, and also the cover panels match the doors, which the cabinet boxes don’t, quite. But anyway – this panel is 80 inches long. That’s a long cut that has to be very straight. Luckily, my dad has a table saw, and he’s willing to attack problems like this with me. So in the slight drizzle after work this evening, he pulled his table saw out to the doorway of the shop (that’s the only way we could have 80″ behind it), and I borrowed my mom’s car to transport the panel, and we cut it perfectly in half. We also cut a few other pieces of filler, but that was the most awesome. Then I came back home and installed the panels and filler.

Then I got to install the corner cabinet carousel, which was actually really straightforward – the one yesterday was more confusing, but that was also because they had this one image that confused me for several minutes – in one panel, it showed you screwing two pieces together. Then you screwed another piece on, and then there was this strange panel that had you screwing the first piece on again. I finally realized that it wasn’t actually repeating the instruction – it was telling you to make sure the screws were completely tight. Sometimes instructions without words make simple things complicated.

The last thing I did before cleanup was snap on all the hinge-hiding squares – they’re just white plastic boxes, but it’s pretty cool how much nicer the cabinets look when you can’t see the hardware holding them to the wall.

Here are tonight’s photos- if you compare to last night’s, you’ll see there are a couple of small spaces between cabinets that are no longer spaces. Yay filler!