Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Building a German kitchen

So yesterday, my roomate Stefan and I built our kitchen. We took out the old one, storing it in the basement and put in 3 overhanging cabinets, two large countertops, a large cabinet and rebuilt a corner bench. It took the whole day, but is well worth it. The furniture all is from the GDR which didnt use Phillips screws, and simply hangs the cabinets on upsidedown L hooks drilled into the walls, rather than brackets. The plumbing of the sinks sucked and took a long time as we had to go get new parts and had to make it with lots of unnecesary curves, but it works. Here are the pics in order of completion.


What our kitchen looked like beforehand, with two kitchens in there and no hanging cabinets on the right


Stefan after we put in the first hanging cabinet and new sink underneath


Second hanging cabinet up and rocking


Me working on removing the countertop so we could push it against the wall


Dark outside and about finished



Stefan and Julia, my roomates, with the finished kitchen, a little dirty, but functional

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