Mudroom Cabinets On Order.....

I would have posted on friday, saturday, sunday, monday... well you get the idea... but blogger was having issues as it just sat there and today it works and I am finally able to post a new post... (hmmm whats up with that ??)

So as I had promised last friday that I would post on the new cabinets that we ordered for the mudroom the day previously.... here we go almost a week late...

So a little history on the happenings - or lack of happenings back there and why - back a few months when we had everything lined up ready to go, our carpenter hurt his back
so it delayed us a little but no problem - we are the kind of folks that roll with it - and then it started to rain...
We couldn't move the materials in the rain - have you seen what mdf/melamine does in the rain - not good
So again, okay no problem nothing we can do about the rain so again we rolled with it - I may have been getting a little grumpy at the lack of progress and lack of cleanliness and organization in the mudroom by now too - but again we will roll with it and just wait till it stops raining... ummm that brings us to 6 weeks later and here we are. 

so in the meantime we had a couple other quotes done on the cabinets and most came in at roughly $500 per linear foot... hmmmm - nice cabients but unfortunately not in my budget

I pulled my ikea catalog out of hiding and checked out my options there.  I was so delighted when i found the exact close enough cabinets that I wanted and at $950, they were much closer to what I had budgeted for.  But that meant transporting and once we figured all that into the number it was much higher than I wanted to spend, and my sweets started to sweat at the thought of an ikea assembly project... I don't blame him, that had me concerned too.

soooo now what.... 

I do a lot of work for a local builder/building supplier and felt silly that I had not thought to check there first.  I just figured they would be even pricier so I didn't go that route... I am glad I did, and wish I had thought of this two months ago as the cabinets would likely have arrived by now, but alas we sit and wait for these beauties to arrive.

I went with a maple door, shaker style, with a finish called "cape cod gray"  it has a very subdued look to it and of course I brought in my jumbo paint chip (the canvas I had painted with Raindance) and the cabinets felt very similar to the era that the paint reflects.  I think my plan of old farm house feel will be felt in the mudroom forsure.