I couldn’t wait to unpack our new barstools and put them under the counter. He suggested to do another one for soap, but I didn’t want extra holes in my new counter. Once the sink was in place they drilled a hole for the faucet. I wanted to show that you can see the kitchen from the 2nd floor. The material we chose is called Frosty Carrina from IKEA.
#Brackett waterfall island kitchen install
I forgot to mention, when they did the template, they took the sink back to the shop with them to make sure they had a perfect fit before coming back to install everything. They also installed the under-mount sink. Wow, a first look at this kitchen coming to life! I don’t know if it’s just holding the seams together tightly while glue dries, or if it heats it or what, but the seams are tight after this. They used this machine attached to each piece of countertop to seal the seams together.
The sink and lazy-susan ended up using two slabs so a seam was needed to the right of the sink. I am thrilled that they were able to do the mini countertop on the same slab and reduce the number of seams in the kitchen. Here’s our sink and wrap-around counter being slid into place. Our little coffee area only needed one piece. The island required two pieces of countertop material. Oh the excitement of seeing this finally and being able to visualize sitting here! The first one to go on was our island overhang.
I guess I assumed they would just measure a lot and then transpose it to the countertops, but they used these real templates as stencils to cut the counters perfectly.Ībout a week later they showed back up with the cut counters. They took all these templates back to their shop to cut the counters. This kitchen is starting to take shape and I am more than excited about it!įor the island, he templated the entire island surface and also the overhang for the counter. You can see how he made the small section for the wrap-around counter. Here is the countertop to the left of the stove and is our lazy susan, sink, and mini wrap-around counter area. The one below is to the right of the stove and is our coffee area. Then he took a utility knife and easily cut the excess off. He laid out the strips and hot glued them together. Maybe I’m the only one who geeks out over this stuff, but I thoroughly enjoyed learning the process of coutnertops. The templating process was fascinating! I wasn’t sure how they would do it, and watching the guy work was enlightening. I was up late the night before finishing little details at the last minute. That gave me a week to get the kitchen completely ready for the templating. I called the countertop company and scheduled them about a week out. However, all the side and filler pieces on the lower cabinets were completely ready before the countertop company came out. They didn’t need every aspect of the kitchen finished, but wherever the countertop was going to touch cabinets or filler, those areas needed to be 100% finished.Īs you can see in these photos, areas like the pantry and upper cabinets are not finished with all the filler, but since the counter wasn’t going to touch those areas we didn’t need them complete. They needed the kitchen finished – including all filler pieces. IKEA also told us that if we had the countertop company come out and the kitchen wasn’t 100% ready, they would not template. They also gave us their 3rd party company that installs the counters and told us to call them when we were ready to schedule the templating. We chose our material and they did a rough square footage to come up with the cost. When we ordered our kitchen through IKEA we told them we wanted to purchase the countertops also. Here’s our kitchen, ready for countertops! We are super happy with them and am glad we purchased them through IKEA. Work! The countertops were not DIY (thank goodness) – IKEA sent a crew over to measure and install the countertops. Today is countertop day! Can I get a holla?! Yes, we are still talking about our IKEA kitchen.
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