Under Cabinet Lights

Today they'll be putting in the under cabinet lighting so I went up to the house to check everything out and verify all the locations. The lighting we're using in this kitchen is pretty new stuff and is really cool. It's all LED lighting mounted to an adhesive tape. The tape is only about 1/2" wide so it can go just about anywhere - extremely cool! As usual, the pictures don't do it justice but I'll post them anyway :)

Here's what the light strip looks like as we're holding it up near the counter top area:

Like I said . . . not the best picture. I couldn't get the dang camera to focus on this thing very well so this is the best you're going to get from me today. You can see the transformer sitting on the counter top in the background - it's the little white hockey puck thing. It's only about 3" in diameter and about 1.25" in height. It will fit perfectly to the underside of the cabinets behind the light shield we'll be installing. Here's what it looks like up closer:

Now how exciting is that?! I wish I could have gotten a focused picture of the LEDs turned on but those photos looked horrible - I mean really bad. So you'll just have to use your imagination until we get them installed and I can get a better shot of it. Sorry :)

Backsplash!!

Very cool - I went up to the house today and it turns out the backsplash is in! It looks awesome - the pictures don't do it justice. Here's what it looks like:

Here's another angle over by the sink. I love that faucet :) By the way, the blue strips you see at the top left of the glass backsplash are painters tape to keep it in place while the silicone sets up and dries.And here's another close up. These materials look really nice together. Can't wait for the LED under cabinet lighting to go in next!!

As a side note, I will say that we're having a few issues with the countertop material. As you may remember it's a quartz material made by Caesarstone. Now typically quartz is the ideal material . . . however, since this is in the honed finish it seems to show just about everything. Not what we were expecting and we're in the process of investigating a solution. Anyway, just wanted to pass that info on to anyone considering this same material. I'll let you all know what we find out.

The Latest

Well I hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend. I know I sure did! So I went up to the house today and took a few pictures. Things are getting pretty close to being done at this point. I was hoping everything would wrap up last week but it didn't happen. The glass backsplash was supposed to go in Thursday but won't go in until tomorrow. I hope. We really can't do the undercabinet lights until that's in so we'll just have to wait.

So, . . . here's what it looks like today:

Some of the pendant lights are installed over the peninsula and the others will be in by the end of the day. You can also see how the cork floor looks. Well, a little. These pictures don't show the greatest detail but I think you get the idea. The patterning and look of the cork are gorgeous in person.

Here's a closer view of the cabinets with the drawer hardware installed. Actually this first picture is from last week when I went up to the house to look at where to install them.

And here's the finished look:

You can see the flooring a little better in that picture. We also got the wenge wood veneer put on the door to the garage as well as the door hardware. I think it looks great - here's a close up shot of the door hardware:

That's about it for now. I really can't wait to see that glass backsplash go in. I think that will clean things up so much. I'll post pictures of it as soon as I can.