These kitchen cabinets went into the same Castro District duplex as the bathroom and shower pan and the marble herringbone entryway. Compared to those, this was an unremarkable job, and it went up pretty easily.
The one wrinkle was the walls. Like a lot of older San Francisco buildings, this one had walls that were out of square, which made getting everything planed and aligned a little trickier than usual. Cabinets are built square. When the walls aren’t, the difference has to be taken up in the installation, or it shows up as gaps along the wall, doors that don’t hang evenly, and countertops that don’t sit flat. Each cabinet has to be shimmed, leveled, and fitted so the run reads straight and true even when the room around it doesn’t.
The cabinets went in over new tongue-and-groove oak floors. Installing over a finished floor takes care: the floor has to be protected during the work, and the cabinets have to sit level on it without damaging the new oak.
The owner was preparing to sell the property, and a kitchen is one of the first rooms buyers judge a home by. Clean, well-aligned cabinets over new hardwood give the whole space a fresh, finished look.
It looks beautiful at the end.
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