Day 16

This was a day that didn't have much to do with the kitchen, except in a bad way.



First of all, the job for today was repairing/replacing the doorframe into the entryway where a certain giant dog chewed it up years ago. This seemed like it should be a simple enough job--remove a few moldings and replace them. Not! It involved replacing the entire doorframe, rehanging the door, and staining the new frame and moldings to go around it.

That is when the bad thing showed up. While the project lead was staining the pieces for the new doorframe, I realized he was also staining the trim elements for the new window that goes over the kitchen sink. In the same medium brown color as the rest of the house.


Whoops! The window is supposed to be trimmed and framed in the color of the cabinets. At least I thought so. But he told me they "usually" stain the windows and trim the same as the millwork in the rest of the house. He about had me convinced. But I talked to Jim and we looked at the design drawings and sure enough, the kitchen window is supposed to match the cabinets. Who wants a big brown window in the middle of a bright white wall? We'll see what happens next.