Kitchen Reno Day 4

The electrician came last night; our first step in re-construction (instead of DEconstruction).  I didn't realize or know that our job isn't that big, therefor he's doing this job AFTER "real" day jobs. He showed up around 4:30 and worked till 8ish. He'll come back and do the same Thursday and Friday. Our make-shift cooking/eating set up still revolves around the location of the kitchen; so when he's here working, making a dinner in any form is not really possible. I've packed most of the foods/daily dishes into the pantry, the refridgerator is still in it's original location, the sink is still functional in it's original spot and the microwave has moved on to a small table directly outside of the kitchen (along with bowls of fruits and boxes of cups).

Since I didn't actually know this was all going to down as it was until about 4pm yesterday, Willa and I punted on dinner. She had swimming at 6pm, we got home at 4:45 and found Andy working away. So we hung out a bit, catching up on homework, then hit Blimpies on the way to swimming. I'm not sure what J & C did, but we found them hanging out downstairs when we got home.

Tomorrow, the recessed lights will get installed, and the wiring for the hanging pendants and under cabinet lighting will go in. The pendants I ordered arrived yesterday, so hopefully they'll get installed also. "Let there by light!" Lighting was a major problem in this kitchen. Daytime? No problem. Two nice windows to the back yard and a giant skylight. Any other time it's a cave. There were two lights left on an old track-lighting set up, no lights over the peninsula, no lights under the cabinets and one light above the stove.  The new plan includes five recessed lights, lights under the cabinets on both sides, lights above the stove and three hanging 10-inch pendant lamps.

Tonight, in order to be prepared for the rest of the electrical, we'll rip out the rest of the counter under the windows. We'll keep the sink in tact for another week. Whew.