Adding a Fourth

This morning, I assembled the additional lazy susan shelf that arrived yesterday.  I unloaded and lowered two of the shelves to make room, and added the new shelf on top.  Even at an angle, it was not easy to squeeze the shelf inside, and I had to drop the lower shelves on top of each other to finally get the new top shelf inside the cabinet.  Here's how it looks at the moment, before we load up the top shelf with stuff that will require our kitchen ladder to reach.

The next task was to add the pull bars to our 2 spice drawers.  Here's one after installation:

I had just started painting the door trim when the doorbell rang.  Our counter chairs were here!  And shortly thereafter, a knock at the door signaled the delivery of our 18 gauge brad nail gun, which will be quite handy for attaching quarter round to the baseboards.

Door trim painting in progress - blue tape for edging 

Chairs and nailer staged in hallway

Sharron arrived home from work just as I was unpacking the chairs.  We got the first one assembled in time for her to give it a test drive at the island while eating dinner.  As Murphy would have it, we assembled the first chair with the foot rest misaligned (on the side instead of in front) and had to remove four bolts and set it right.  With the knowledge of how not to do it, we got the second chair assembled correctly and with a bit less effort.  Here's Sharron doing the hard part of getting the bolts started in a very tight space inside the spring-loaded swivel assembly:

Note the coaster, used as a shim, while installing bolts

Here's the finished product.  We found our new perches at the end of the island to be a good vantage point for bird watching. 

Last, but not least, I opened the box containing the brad nailer and actually read the instruction manual!  This tool will be a huge time saver (and produce superior results) in installing quarter round. 

Hitachi brad nailer with 2400 brads of various sizes