The First of the Cabinets

I beat my parents to the house this morning.  When they arrived, Dad and I started working on putting up the wall cabinets.  Dad measured down the height of the cabinet, plus a little clearance, and stuck in a cleat.  He used that to help balance the cabinet while I screwed it in.  We clamped adjacent cabinets together to bolt them to each other.

Shortly after the above cabinets were installed, Dad had to go in the attic to move the wiring for the kitchen light.  It needs to be a bit further out from the wall than its original location.  Here's how Dad looked:

Dad and I kept putting up cabinets after the light was moved.    Mom painted the dining room.

Mom just thought it was funny how the laser level line was on my face.  =)

Mom finished her task before we finished ours.  When she completed that, she tried Krud Kutter on the random green-painted ceiling board in the hallway.

When she finished that, she started laying down some peel-and-stick tile.  Don't worry; I'm not really using that for flooring.  It's being used to fill in spots where the hideous brown tile is missing so that the underfloor is relatively level when we lay down the laminate.

Dad and I finally got the rest of the wall cabinets up.  Well, mostly.  There's still one to put over the sink.  It's a little one and won't line up with the rest - it will be shelf-like.  We'll probably add it after the sink is in so we can center it, but, maybe we'll put it up tomorrow.  It will likely be easier without base cabinets installed yet.