Rapid progress?!

 Indeed, dear readers, after giving a final exam, meeting with a grad student and returning a shirt I didn't like to Banana Republic, I could have called it a day, but instead, I went straight back to work, which began with (1) adding legs to the cabinet and (2) mounting the cabinet to the wall. I think I did an amazing job securing the mounting bar, and it should be able to take about 300 lbs of force, but then you imagine an unwatched child climbing on it -- and better to have the extra support. Anyway, it took surprisingly little time to secure the mounting bar, and then the actual mounting is just... lifting it up and settling it onto the bar. 

Just hanging out

Then come the inevitable and endless finicky adjustments to get everything level, except, wait, what does that level say?

BOOM!

I then put together the medicine cabinet, which wasn't too bad, but I was not looking forward to getting it onto the wall. I could only imagine what kind of hell IKEA had prepared for me. But I started reading the directions and discovered...

Look familiar?

It's exactly the same mounting bar, and this one also just took a few minutes to install. And hanging the cabinet was as simple as lifting it up and setting it down onto the mounting. Well, followed by the hour of trying to get things level. Except once again...

BOOM!

A quick trip to the hardware store for some silicone, and then the sink goes into place:

 

The hardest part of the was probably mounting the mirror doors for the cabinet, but even that was pretty straightforward. The scariest part, however, was mounting the little shelves inside, which are very thin, made out of glass, and require a very large amount of force to snap into place. Somehow, reader, they did not break. 

 

What's left? After my two-hour long 9 AM Zoom meeting, all the plumbing is what's left. This is normally extremely difficult, but we will see.