Pleasingly for me at least – because it’s my favourite space in any house – the kitchen is starting to take shape with the installation of the cabinets.
This is what the kitchen designer drew:
And this is how it’s looking thus far:
The shaker style cabinet doors did not disappoint!
Shaker style cabinets are something that I’ve wanted for a while. Not entirely sure when exactly, but I think it was around the time I started hooking up with Jack Nicholson. Wait, no, that was Diane Keaton in Something’s Got To Give. Although Diane’s character did have an outstandingly beautiful kitchen in her Hamptons home in that movie….
For the two or three readers who’ve followed this blog for more than the duration of a Google search, you may recall that we chose “calf skin” as the colour for our island cabinets.
I was surprised by how light the Calf Skin looks in the, erm, light. In fact, in the photo of the actual kitchen, it barely looks darker than the Whisper White of the other cabinets. That is both disappointing and pleasing. I was concerned that Calf Skin was actually too dark (see the colour selection photo above), am please that the contrast will be subtle. But I cannot help being a little disappointed and concerned that the contrast may be too subtle.
The other kitchen development is that the appliance supplier were unable to fulfil our order of two pyrolytic Smeg ovens because Smeg no longer stocks/manufactures that particular oven.
The supplier offered an alternate pyrolytic model at an additional cost that made no sense. The quote on the standalone additional oven was now $400 higher for the new model vs old. That’s a steep price rise when Bing Lee quotes both items on their website at only a $100 difference, and it’s not like they are starting off a low base – their oven pricing is about $1k more than Bing Lee. The real kicker was that the upgrade price on my first oven was now a whopping $830 more than previously. If you completed primary school arithmetic, you might have been able to point to why this is ridiculous.
Sadly, it appears the folks at the appliance supplier have not completed primary school arithmetic.
They simply could not wrap their minds around how incongruous the pricing upgrades were. Why was the credit provided on the standard oven now $430 less because an oven I wanted is no longer available?
Could it be that they gambled that at a time like this when we’re so pregnant with the deal, we would likely be price inelastic?
In the end, it was the final straw for me. I simply said no. I took the base level oven and removed the additional oven. I’ll buy it for $1k less at Bing Lee when the time comes.
Eden Brae Waldorf 50 