cabinets day 1 and 2

Wow! what a difference a day makes! Yesterday we had cabinetry sitting around the rooms and appliances in the garage. Today the house is really starting to take on it's character.
The cabinets are awesome. Ken came in Monday night. I saw the cabinets as we unloaded yesterday and they are beautiful black and natural bamboo colors. The drawers look great with the plywood and bamboo lines and the cutouts for the handles instead of hardware. Can't wait to finish the cabinets this week.
Yesterday, we also measured out the space and the leveling. We found there's quite a bit of a discrepancy along the floor - nearly 1 1/2" from 1 end of the kitchen to the dining room! The wall is slightly off-plumb but it's not too bad, we can work with it.
We started the cabinets with the corner floor piece. From there, everything else has to flow correctly so it's critical we got the corner in correctly. The corner took some time and then we made sure to measure the stove gap correctly.
We also had to cut down most of the pony wall that Bob's crew put in place. Originally they had the pony wall spanning the entire length of the floor cabinets that bordered the kitchen & family room. We really just needed a short wall for the back of the stove, where the electrical would come up and also where the gas for the stove will be. So I cut that down and re-sized it to fit the stove only. We butted the cabinets squarely up against the wall and did a little shimming and sawing to get a fairly level surface for the countertop. We'll see how good a job we did in a few days...
We are working pretty hard to make sure we get the floor cabinets all in by today. Reason being is Marble City is coming tomorrow morning to make a template of the counter, and we are hoping to approve the template and granite layout on Friday. So to meet that schedule, we are working a little backwards. We are installing the wall cabinets AFTER the floor cabinets. Normally this would be done in reverse, since the wall cabinets are easier to install without navigating around the floor cabinets. But there's not too many so it should be OK.