Dover White, here we come

The first batch of cabinets is being delivered to the painter today, after we approved the sample of Dover White paint that Nelson brought by on Saturday. We had been looking at a small board painted with eggshell Dover White; he brought by a larger board with a semi-gloss finish, which really helped us picture the cabinets.

Dover White is warm and creamy without being cream. It looks white compared to the off-white cabinets in our master bath, and creamy next to stark drywall white. I think—I hope—it's the perfect old-house white for a warm, inviting white kitchen.

I feel strangely possessive of my cabinets, and have had momentary fantasies of visiting them at the painters'. I don't know how long the painting will take. I do know the bottom cabinets have to be in place before the countertop fabricators can come measure for granite, so they're being built first, which makes sense.

The tile floor should arrive soon, and I can't wait to see that either. It feels like Christmas every week around here, and so far, we have loved everything we've unwrapped.

P.S. Well, scratch that tile arrival date. I just called Sunderlands, who called Seneca, and we learned that our tile is in the beehive kiln right now. With meshing and everything, it's not scheduled to ship until mid-May. I hope it's worth the wait.