the doors arrive in Las Vegas (no Jim Morrison)

Remember the schmancy doors/drawer fronts/side panels I had made for my Ikea kitchen cabinets? They arrived today, and hot damn, they're perdy. I went with mahogany, and believe me, they don't look like the fakey photographic veneered crap you get at Ikea- these are real wood with some kind of oil finish on them that smells super nice. I can't wait for my entire kitchen to smell this way. They aren't solid mahogany- it's technically a wood veneer over MDF, but you can't tell because it looks the same on the front, back and sides. And this is how they do it with fancy Italian Scavolini kitchens, so it's all good.

Wanna know the fun part? Unlike the Ikea frames which shipped in a zillion boxes and bags, these came individually packed, all on a HUGE shipping palette (eight-feet, I'm guessing). I had the UPS guy leave it on my driveway, unpacked it and put them all in a closet (besides the one I took the pic of, I left them all in their packing material). That took a while.

The fun part was that once I had all the doors inside, I was left with a ton of cardboard and the giant palette. The cardboard I just cut down, tied up and dragged to the curb: garbage day is tomorrow... handy! But the palette... well, you can't just throw that in a garbage can. Contemplating my options, I realized the only thing I could do was dismantle it, then cut up all the wood into garbage can-sized chunks. That was easily over an hour of smashing away with a four-pound sledgehammer and sawing with a 7 1/4" circular saw. I am now very sore :( This is the part they don't tell you about your Awesome New Glamorous Kitchen™.