Saturday, June 14, 2008

Sink!

Mark worked all day, and finally got the sink installed...almost.


The sink is in, the faucet is hooked up, the garbage disposal is installed, but the drainpipe isn't connected to the sink drains. So, we have running water in the kitchen, but we have no easy way of disposing of it yet. For now we have a tub under the sink to catch the water. Hey, it's still a huge improvement over having no water at all.


Some good friends of ours were so kind as to offer to buy us a faucet for our new kitchen. How thoughtful! We picked this one out because one of the friends has it and their kitchen, and we really like it.
He looks very tired, doesn't he? He's been working so hard all day. But everything works, and there are no leaks! Yay!
Still a little more work to be done. It would have been done tonight, except the guy at the plumbing store sold Mark the wrong kind of trap for our plumbing. But a bucket will work for now.

We Have Counters!

The countertops came in last Monday, and Mark and I installed them (well, mostly Mark, but I helped). It makes a huge difference in how things look--it looks close to being finished! As I write Mark is downstairs installing the sink and garbage disposal--hopefully that will be done tonight. Having running water in our kitchen is going to be amazing!


Here's an idea of what they look like up close--they're black with whitish streaks that look like slate.