Starting to look kitchen-ish . . .

Most of the cabinets are in. Still need hardware and some trim.



The microwave is in. The range hood is kind of in -- they'll have to figure out how to cut off the top part so it fits under the soffit.

The granite guy made the template for the countertop today. I explained that we wanted a raised glass bartop that would be held up by stainless steel supports, and showed him a picture I had found online.

Granite guy: "Wow, that's really cool."

Me: "So you can do it?"

Granite guy: "Nope. No idea how to do that."

He did say he would ask the guys back at the shop. So he called later and said the shop guys had a brilliant solution: "All ya gotta do is get some steel posts and drill through the granite and through your cabinets down into the floor."

Me: "Uh, the cabinets there have drawers and rollout pantries and things in them."

Granite guy: "Oh, those would have to come out. We need to run these posts right through the cabinets at an angle."

Thus rendering our brand-new cabinets pretty much useless. I've asked every countertop fabricator from Kalispell to Missoula if they can do the glass bartop. Every one says the same thing: "Wow, that's really cool. Nope, can't do it." So we may have to put that part of the project on the back burner. If we had a burner.