More kitchen details - Spring '18

With high school graduation coming up for our daughter, we wanted to get the kitchen as completed as possible.  With the work below, it is basically 100% done. A couple minor things left to do, but nothing real noticeable.

We are now right about 5 years after breaking ground (July).

The pendants.  These were 100% custom.  We had the shades made by a local glass blower and I made the fixtures from components.  With the sloped ceiling, we could not find a stock pendant that was sturdy enough.  The typical method for doing custom shades is to buy a stock fixture, toss the shade, and put the custom one on.  I made these from lamp parts bought online and some steel tubing.  I measured and cut each one based on the position of the electrical box on the ceiling, then had to tap threads for the lamp fittings.  Getting the lengths to end up even was the hardest part.

The setup I created to tap the threads in the tubes:

Test fitting the first ones:

Different length tubes ready for paint:

Raw fixtures installed:

And the shades.  Remember that you can click on the image for a larger one, and I highly recommend it here so you can see the shades.  They are beautiful.

The pantry door.  There is a door switch so the light goes on when you open it, and back off when you close it.  That is very handy for a pantry.  Here is the door itself:

And here is the door trimmed out plus the window over the sink trimmed out.  I needed to do that window as the next thing up was the backsplash tile

And speaking of backsplash tile....  It took a little over a week to get the backerboard up on the island, tile the island and wall counter backsplashes and grout it (plus sealing).

A couple in-progress photos:

And the complete job:

About the only remaining detail is capping off the top of the pantry door bump-out.  I just want a solid plywood shelf on top and some crown molding there to finish it off.  Not too major, and not real obvious even if I don't get it done before graduation.