Cabinets are wrong (update)

[simpsongal]

We’re so over this renovation. I have been waiting over 3 months for cabinets. They finally arrived and they’re all wrong. I ordered inset cabinet doors and they’re all overlay.

I want to cry/murder someone. I seriously don’t know wtf to do.

ETA- Let me add, my contractor already installed them while I was at the office today

ETA: So apparently that's what I ordered.  No less than 5 trips to the cabinet store, 15+ hrs and going back and forth over details.  I emailed him and we discussed inset on the perimeter.  I'm like 95% certain that's where we landed but that's not what was ordered. Same w/the island pull out - he just ordered a cabinet.  Maybe we were talking past each other?

So it's done.  I'll always wish they were different but at this point, what's done is done.

I'm just done - we had an exterminator here b/c there are squirrels in our attic.  Is it too early to start drinking?

[Susie]

It's smaller scale, but on Feb 1, we hit the one year anniversary of demo'ing our half bath.  We had the floor tile installed and the toilet reinstalled relatively quickly, but we still don't have a sink of any kind.  It's been 54 weeks of having to go to the kitchen sink to wash your hands.  

What started pretty simple became complicated because I wanted a kitchen sink installed in the space, not a "bathroom" sink (which would be shallower and smaller) since the half bath is right by the laundry room and we don't have a laundry sink anywhere (or anywhere to put one).  I wanted a place to soak stained stuff, clean gross stuff, etc., that is not a food prep area.  We were super constrained by the door frame, so the whole thing had to be custom, which takes so much longer to pick out and order and come in, etc. etc.  

At this point the cabinet has come in, but the sink keeps arriving damaged so it keeps getting sent back.  Round and round.  Without the exact sink, the counter top guys can't cut the quartz.  So here we are, a year later, still without a sink.  

I almost regret giving away the pink pedestal sink that we demo'ed.  Almost.  

Have a glass of wine or a couple and come up with a plan.  It'll (eventually) be ok.

[litasail]

I'm so sorry.

[simpsongal]

Susie I hear ya. Idk what the cabinet place will do/say. I expect big things and yet I know I’ll probably keep these and never be fully happy. Which sux bc I’ve been waiting over 10 years to reno my kitchen.

[litasail]

Feb 14, 2024 22:09:22 GMT -5 simpsongal said:

Susie I hear ya. Idk what the cabinet place will do/say. I expect big things and yet I know I’ll probably keep these and never be fully happy. Which sux bc I’ve been waiting over 10 years to reno my kitchen.

Don't settle! Stick to your guns!

[heygrey]

I am so sorry simpsongal. I would need a lot of space to rage all of my feelings tonight.

Don't settle. I know it will mean more months of waiting and living in an unfinished space, but you have put so much thought and effort into designing this kitchen exactly how you want it.


On a much smaller scale, we did a bathroom reno last spring and I had to make a different choice for flooring at the last minute. I went to Home Depot and picked a perfectly respectable, quality product. I do not love it and every time I step in that bathroom I dream about changing the flooring. I know it wouldn't matter to some people, but I love designing my home and I have a very specific vision in mind. I'm learning not to apologize for that and to wait for what I want. It really sucks living in the chaos though. I can completely empathize with that.

[mrsukyankee]

Don't settle. The company should make good. Everything else should keep going forward and they can put the order on speed. You can still store things in the cabinets w/o doors (if they take them back - which I'd tell them that they need to stay until they can be replaced by the correct ones).

[atarianna]

Do you have any other emails or signed documents laying out things? Inset vs overlay is a HUGE difference; generally cost is 30-50% more. I am sorry this happened and hope you can get it rectified somehow.

[simpsongal]

Feb 15, 2024 14:36:24 GMT -5 atarianna said:

Do you have any other emails or signed documents laying out things? Inset vs overlay is a HUGE difference; generally cost is 30-50% more. I am sorry this happened and hope you can get it rectified somehow.

No, I mean the contract controls.  He claims I went back and forth and landed on no.  We literally ordered 1 cabinet that's inset - why would I do that??

I'm letting it go.  It's a costly mistake but it's not in the contract and I wasn't charged for it.  It was only going to be like a 10% upcharge.  

I'm countertop shopping tomorrow and I have to order - I hope that goes better....I already found out my first choices are too costly.