With the flooring done we could finally move onto the kitchen. We had been dreaming about the day we could actually wash our dishes. As some of you might have heard that we would use the dogs as our dishwashers. We got 4 base cabinets that extended to 9.5ft and painted them red. Pam said it looked too much like a fire truck , so we added some white and a tad of black to make this cozy pink shade. We cut out the base of one cabinet for the sink drain/water lines. We fastened the cabinets together then moved over the butcher block and placed it ontop of them. we used L brackets to securely mount them together and then we proceeded to use mineral oil and bee's wax to protect it... This in the long run didn't work out, so we had to clean it with mineral spirits and apply several coats of matte polyeurothane.
Next we got to work on putting in our large 32" wide 9" deep farm house sink. This part I was really close to messing up, because I just eyed where the stencil to cut the hole out. I was literally a 1/2" from cutting into the sidewall. I dry fit the drain and sent a photo over art and asked him if I did it right. glad I did because most of it was wrong and he told me what I needed to change. Once everything was connected we opened the water lines... just a dribble. Having remembered about the bug incident with the bathroom sink we decided to unconnect them and sure enough saw dust had fallen into our pex line. I literally siphoned all the sawdust out and sure enough the water flowed freely. I have attached the video we made of the process.
We also got a new fridge and our old fridge that lived outside (In the winter it would freeze Everything!) was taken away. The nice thing was we ran a small water line through the back of the cabinets that allow us to get filtered water/ice from our new fridge (Aren't we fancy).
Not exactly Kitchen Related, But right before leaving for our Denali 2026 season we were able to get our Washer/Dryer installed. There was a bit of hoopla involved that we didn't expect. We purchased it from home Depot on sale and they said it could be anywhere between 4 to 6 weeks. It showed up 8 weeks and we only had 2 weeks before we had to leave. The second issue was that when they installed it, they forgot to open the water valves and they plugged in the dryer portion but not the washer portion. In their defense it was a really tight space and they had to climb over it to be able to escape. After a second trip out they were able to fix the issues and we were able to do our first load of laundry. Proceeded by like 5 other loads since we wanted to wash anything and everything lol