Now that the floors are in the next big thing – getting storage in! We were trying to avoid the actual buildout of the space being too complicated and customized, so we settled on purchasing a bunch of large wardrobes & upper cabinets from Ikea as a way to get as much storage in the space as possible. A box truck and a really really long day later and we were loaded up with over 1,800 pounds of flat boxes. Exciting until we remembered that all those boxes needed to be carried up a staircase!

After all the hauling came assembling. I think I am still having nightmares about it. We made great progress over a week though – all the wardrobes got assembled as far as the basic boxes and we assembled the drawers and upper cabinets. Next we’ll start getting shelves and drawers in!

Also around the same time the 2×4 framing for the marble counter went in – our plan is to create a ‘floating’ thick looking marble counter by stacking a slab and an apron piece to make the counter appear to be 4″ thick. Later we’ll add some wood apron pieces and eventually make both or one of the apron pieces a drawer – but based on all the other things on the ‘to do’ list that will at some point in the future!