How to cut holes?

I’m trying to cut a hole for a sink using box select/with and without face select but it’s not coming up.

Here’s the mesh:

And here’s what i am trying to do:
http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/model-texture-and-render-a-photorealistic-kitchen-in-blender-and-yafaray/ (step 21)

Thanks.

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You’re not supposed to be selecting anything, you’re supposed to be adding loops. Use CTRL+R and add an edge loop. THEN you select vertices.

The reason you can’t select anything is because there’s nothing to select yet.