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Showing posts with label kitchen renovation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kitchen renovation. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Making Progress...Kitchen Update



We're slowing making progress on the kitchen. I pray for rainy days...that's when the hubby works on the kitchen as his lawn service business takes priority...sigh!
The hubby and Josh are removing the plaster from the wall between the kitchen and dining room. The hubby wants to put a counter bar island in...as I said this project has a life of it's own!


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While my house was being built one of the workers signed his name and gave his info on where he lived. I love finding things like this. Gives the house some personality. In the previous picture, there is a telephone ringer box in the corner of the wall...pretty cool. We also found a pocket knife that was left in the wall by someone.

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The walls that were leading to the basement alcove and living room alcove have been removed.It makes the kitchen look so much bigger. We now need to tear out the hardwood floor to incorporate that part into the kitchen and extend the ceramic tile floor. The basement steps now are straight shot down...no more corners to have to turn and wasted space. Yeah!

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It looks like one more day of demolition and we should be able to start working on reconstruction. With the forecast of 5 days of rain...maybe lots will get done...then again the forecast is for showers...so maybe not.




Wednesday, April 8, 2009

My Kitchen Update



My friend Sharon has been bugging me for an update on my kitchen renovation. After putting in a new kitchen floor, I decided that the cabinets needed to go, the bulkheads needed to be removed, new lighting needs to be put in, a new tile backsplash installed.

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That's Josh working...looking cool while doing it. Isn't the wallpaper lovely? That was under another layer of equally bad wallpaper.

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The bulkhead is removed.

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The ceiling plaster is down. So is the lovely light.

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Half of the plaster is off the wall.

This project has taken on a life of it's own. We still have more demolition to do before we can start reconstruction. Two trips to the dump to take the construction debris away.

Yes, my hubby moves slower than molasses at the South Pole. Sigh! I may have a new kitchen sometime before the end of the year.