It's not you, it's me

We've been dealt another blow to our timeline. This time, the cabinet builder/installer is closing shop and heading north. The coup de grâce was when he noted in an e-mail that he only wishes this could have been done 4-5 months ago. When it should have been.

I'm beginning to take this personally. Maybe it's us....Nah, can't be :)

The good news is he didn't leave us too much in a bind. We've got his wonderful plan and he put us in touch with another salesman. (Am I deluding myself to think maybe this will *save* us money?) We meet with him on Thursday.

Before this snafu, Keith and I had already been debating over the color of the cabinets. We're on the same page (for once!) as we agreed that one cabinet was too red, the other too black. The new salesman directed us to Home Depot to look at a similar line (ours are Timberlake. Home Depot carries American Woodmark, a sister company).

The good news is that I think we have found the correct color. Here are the overall color choices, and our final selections with the red check mark. The Bordeaux was our original too-red selection. We're both leaning toward Java.