Kitchen cabinet sideways shuffle

After a long, hard day, Aaron & I finally got the cabinets moved over the requisite 3" for the new refrigerator.
First, Aaron ripped out a lot of the old wall studs and replaced them and readjusted them for the shift to the right:





We plan to eventually redo this entire wall, sheetrock it on the other side (right now it's just unfinished beadboard paneling from Lowes), and tie it in more effectively and attractively into the ceiling. Since we don't want to start any more projects right now, Aaron did the minimum necessary to the wall for the meantime.

We hit one small snag, though- about 5:30, when we thought we were done, we realized that we forgot to account for the little 1/2 flange-thing on the front of the cabinets, we made the fridge opening too small. This meant we had to pull down and rehang the cabinets! I'm surprised that our supervisor didn't catch this. She must have been off napping somewhere when we made the measurements.





We went to the grocery store for a break, and then came back and started over. This time, things went much more smoothly, and no one, for example, got hit in the shoulder with a cabinet. (Ahem!) We've ordered spacers that match the cabinet, but they aren't in yet, so we're using temporary blocks of wood for now. Hopefully, we can unscrew the cabinets and bang the wood out, then slide the new piece in, but that's probably a story for another day. Here is Aaron replacing the doors on the above-fridge cabinet.





According to the other project managers, the work seems satisfactory!




We're very happy to have this project behind us, but tomorrow will be a busy day, with trying to fix the trim over the bedroom window, and putting storm windows back on the house. It should be a nice day to work outside, though, with a high of around 66 degrees, much nicer than today's windy 54!