Our new cupboards and "Nevermind Robert"

First, We've been going at this remodel for about three weeks now. It started kind of suddenly. Right after I'd posted "Help me Robert!" at the beginning of September, we actually did find some wonderful second-hand cabinets in our paper's online classifieds. The people who were selling them had just redone their kitchen, and were selling their five year old almost pristine cabinets, countertop, crown moulding and kitchen sink, even. They are medium oak, way better than I could have hoped and will be perfect for us. This miraculous stroke of luck changed the timeline on our new kitchen from about five years, to about five weeks! And they only cost us about $1800!

Here they are in our garage. We brought them home on the 13th of September, and then the next day, started taking out cupboards and tearing off sheet rock. The door for this one is on the floor next to it; they've got to be taken off anyway to put them on the wall.
This is a closeup of the countertop. It's white formica, with a corian edge at the front, and it will be great. I have no desire to ever have granite or stone or tile or meteorite countertops and am perfectly happy with these. We're going to have to puzzle piece one corner near the sink, but it's totally doable.
There are about seventeen units all together and one kitchen desk, which is in our sunroom at present. We're going to have two base cabinets left over, to use in the sewing room, but all the upper cabinets will fit perfectly the way that Ty has it configured. The only bummer is that we won't be able to fit in the crown moulding above them, 'cause raising the ceiling is simply not an option. But I'm sure I can figure out what to do with some extra crown moulding.

You can just see the corner of the new sink here above these words. It is going to be so lovely and easy to keep clean! I'm really looking forward to all of this. Below are some pictures of the floor that need to be patched with new linoleum. Again, I have no love for real stone tile floors in a kitchen. Anything you drop on them automatically shatters and they are really hard on knees and ankles. I love my stone-patterned linoleum, though! It's lovely, and tough, but very easy to clean. Here, you can see the floor in my corner pantry where the front room closet used to be. It shouldn't be too hard to patch and it's going to be out of the way so I don't care if it matches.

These areas are right in the traffic pattern where we are and will be walking everyday, though, so I hope they'll look seamless. Most of the long side will be under the base cabinets, but that short little rectangle will be right out in the open. We are hoping the company that installed it two years ago, will be able to help us, and do it right.

The blue tape on the floor marks where the footprint of the base cabinets will be.

Now these pictures are of the sheet rock that Ty put up last night. They were the panels that need no holes for electrical boxes.
This shows some of the new electrical wiring that Ty's mom did for us over last weekend. She is amazing!! Thank you so much, Mom! The wiring in this house was truly frightening in some places and she has helped us clean it up and make it safe, as well as move switches and plugs and install new lights! She also has saved us hundreds of dollars and probably prevented our home from burning down around us.
The rest of the sheet rock will be done by Friday. We're hoping to see the flooring guy today or tomorrow, and then we'll stop tripping over the turned up linoleum. The curtain over the new door to the kitchen is just waiting there while the window it should cover is still in the construction zone. Those are the colors I'd like to use in the kitchen, light red, yellow and sage green. Yeah, "light red" is a euphemism for "pink." You caught me.

So, What do you think?