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Final kitchen design

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By Natalie
 
We drove down to Ikea on Saturday to finalize our kitchen order. Alice was awesome, figured out cabinet placement and told Harris what extra to build and how to hack the kitchen. Because of their current promotion, we're getting the side cabinet and the microwave basically for free.  Spend $3500 get 10% off, spend $4500 get 20% off. So if you're already at 3500, anything else you add is free.  Math is fun.
 
 

All of this is getting delivered on Saturday, so we should be good to get it installed after the floors are finished.
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  1. Mike SpringOctober 21, 2013 at 8:57 AM

    You lucked up on a sale!

    Great!

    What fun Harris is going to have assembling the stuff you bought.

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  2. NatalieOctober 21, 2013 at 9:04 AM

    I think that's the part he's most looking forward to. That, but also, at the other house we had three bottom cabinets and three upper cabs. Here we have more in just bottom cabs...and eventually will have an entire other area for linens, storage, etc. He's going to be giddy with storage space.

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