Christmas Party

Bryson & my husband David

Hayley

Tracy, Anthony and his wife

Eric and his wife

The "other" Eric and his wife

Treavor and Keaton

Me and Hayley

Me and Chris

Hayley, Bryson, Treavor and Keaton

Trey and Craig

Beware.....there is alot of redeye because I am terrible at editing these.  We had a great time at Lincolns Sports Grille.  They had live music and tons of T.V.'s with the games playing.  I can say this was a little bit of a break that we all needed.  Friends and family together is the greatest gift of all!

Christmas party

Well....tonight is our annual Christmas party.  I have decided to stay casual (because we ARE casual) and have it at Lincoln's Sports Grill (not bar) in Oak Ridge.  I think the menu is burgers and fries type stuff.  Ofcourse there will be beer for some of them!  Pictures will be EDITED and posted here this weekend.

Friday:  Eric and Craig will be removing the old cabinets from the Holder home in order to prepare for the install on Monday.  If everyone can make it to work today we will continue to construct the Goldston job and start cutting the parts for the Mccarroll job.  I have a new job we will start next week for Jolly.

The little bit of snow and ice has put us behind about 2 days.  This time of year is bad for schedules due to weather, illness and holidays.  The holidays are important and we all need to take the time to spend with family and friends.  Forget about work and schedules...forget about finding that perfect gift for someone special....spend some time with them.  Do not go to Walmart or Target within 5 days of Christmas unless you want to create more stress.  Just have a Merry Christmas and relax!

Ramsey cabinets

Bar countertop supports

Front view of center island

Pantry cabinets with glass panel doors at center

Sink section

Merry Christmas from our office

Dovetail drawers

Making the dovetail drawers

Holder job / Door panels are in the racks

Holder job / Door parts ready to cut

Craig's Toy

Christmastime work

I have neglected to post any news for a while.  I did get some photos of the Ramsey kitchen install.  We used a black paint over solid maple hardwood, and red paint for the island.  The doors are solid maple raised panel square design.  It has raised panel sides and a very nice raised panel back on the center island.  I have a photo of the bar countertop support brackets.  The drawers are solid poplar dovetail construction with soft close drawer guides.  It is hard to see the detail on the glass panel doors.  I picked up a very nice patterned glass from State of The Art in West Knoxville.  The granite countertops were fabricated by Rocky Tops Marble and Granite.  The customer coordinated all of the materials very well.

We have since installed the cabinets for Endsley, but have not had time to get the photos taken.  However I did get a call from another customer that saw the completed job and gave it a "10"!  We have just put the finishing touches on the hickory wood job for Holder.  We will be installing it on Monday the 20th. 

The "rustic" cherry cabinets (living room built-ins) for Milner we installed on Tuesday.  Did not get any photos of it, but the customer was so impressed that he is looking forward to replacing his old kitchen cabinets soon.  This job was in Rhea County (about 1 1/2 hr. round trip), and we have done several successful jobs in that area.  Also in Rhea County we will deliver the Hickory cabinets to the Bornhoeft home hopefully on Friday.  I say hopefully because we have had a bout of unpredictable weather earlier this week and things are not looking good tonight (Wed.).

In the shop this week:  Goldston, Mccarroll and Koprince with a few odds and ends.  Koprince is the maple job we are working on that will be painted off white with a brown glaze.  The center island will be light green.  The Goldston job is maple with a chestnut stain, and the Mccarroll job is maple with a chestnut stain as well.  As a matter of fact I just sold another maple with chestnut stain today.  Maybe we have hit on something good here!

We are still doing about 7 remodel jobs to 1 new home.  Hopefully new construction will come back, but we are getting good at the remodels (lots of practice!).

Our annual Christmas party is Friday night.  Then I'm off the finish Christmas shopping Saturday and Sunday.  I haven't even mailed my Christmas cards yet!

Enjoy the photos......

End of week

We installed the Ramsey cabinets this week.  We have a little extra work to do on Monday to get this job totally finished.  It's.....complicated.  Anyhow, it turned out great!  I hope to get some photos early next week.  We will be installing the cabinets for Endsley on Tuesday, and delivering the cabinets for the Bornhoeft job toward the end of the week.  We are building the cabinets for Milner and Holder in our shop.  We will be starting the cabinets for Goldston next week.

Friday a.m. was like a fire drill.  Our evil stepchild (ritter pocket hole driller) was acting up as usual.  Never mind it is about 150 years old and gets used and abused every day.  We just keep feeding it new parts every now and then.  If I have time I'll take a picture of the shoe that we installed to buffer the moving parts below the drill bits.  So after my trip to the local machine shop to get parts fixed I encountered the usual incoming weekend fix-ups.  Drawer guides / trim / handles / hinges.  Got that under control and proceeded to stain a few odds and ends in the shop.  Ordered some countertops and made some return calls and BOOM...it was time to go home.

Today was our last day to take new orders for Christmas delivery / install.  Now we have 3 weeks (less) to get it all done.  We are having our annual Christmas party @ Lincoln's Grill in Oak Ridge.  Just burgers and fries, etc.  It will be great for all of us to get together outside of work.

Posting new photos tomorrow....