putting up the wall cabinets

We determined that keeping the cabinets level would mean a significant drop as the cabinets goes across the wall. About 6 inches total from one end to the other.

We wanted them to start about an inch off the ceiling, so the rail got put up at about 3 and a hlaf inches down. We hooked up the first two cabinets. It seems that they should be shimmed at the bottom but I don't remember seeing that in the instructions. I will have to hit IKEA FAN's site and ask about that.


























We are stacking wall cabinets, a 39" with a 15" on top. This was a mistake, I should have ordered 12" cabinets for the top. We are going to have very little space between the bottom of the cabinets and the counter top. (Maybe it will keep us from storing everything on the counter?)


After the first 39" cabinet went in, a bigger mistake appeared. A double switch for the light over the sink and the garbage disposal are right in the middle of the next cabinet. Why I didn't just measure when my husband put the box in, I will never know.

He starts coming up with solutions. We can use metal conduit and jump to another box that would put the switches on the side of the cabinet. Okay, except that I would lose a chunk of storage space in that important cabinet. What about changing the lower outlet to a double and installing the switches down there. Nice. We would still need to cut out the back of the cabinet to expose the now plated off box, but I wouldn't lose any storage space. We decide to go for that.

He cuts out the old box and then has to run into town to get all the new parts.

Later that day, before he has installed the new box, he says, "What if we just get two 30 inch cabinets and they are just higher on the wall?" That would give us that missing hieght above the counter for 30 inches on either side of the sink. Nicer.

I have to patch the wall where he started to remove the old box, but that is a small price to pay for a better idea.