Wednesday, January 19, 2011

KITCHEN RENOVATION

Last year we were able to start some renovations on our kitchen.  We had a modest budget considering what most kitchen renos go for, especially given the fact that I have expensive taste (sigh).  Well we decided to tackle it ourselves with the much needed assistance of my interior designer mom and her "jack of all trades" husband John.  Here is the BEFORE:

Don't you just love the canary yellow walls and the tin backsplash?  That is sarcasm, but only for those who don't like it.  For those that do like it: "It is beautiful, but we just needed our own touch!"
We gutted the kitchen around Halloween which resulted in Thanksgiving dinner moving to my sister's house in PA.


Introducing... THE HUBBY!!


You will notice that we painted the room a nice cool Tan and added some classic stripes to dress up the soffit (sp? even the correct word?) prior to the demo.  We also upgraded the oven to a beautiful GE and installed an upgraded GE microwave.  Unfortunately I don't have zoomed in pics of that, but I will put some up later.

John and Hubby aka Jim

Next we had to get rid of those wonderful fake wood plastic floors

Bode is trying to help

 It went through the front hallway and into the back laundry room and powder room.  Sounds like a lot but ripping things out is my idea of fun



After the floors we had to say farewell to the tin backsplash.  Ripping that out was so much fun!


Here is Maclin helping out



He is now 85 lbs so you can tell how old these pics are!

Mom!!  Let us in!
You can also see our deck in this shot.  We just ripped that out and got a new one so I will put that in a later post.  You can see the boards that Jim had to put in because it was falling apart.

Shout out to Ved who helped rip up the sub floor.  That job was terrible.  I followed behind and pulled out all the nails and there were about 10 nails every 5 inches... uughhh!!!

Notice the cabinets missing from the wall and the lack of a fridge.  Don't worry we used all of our cabinets and the fridge has a new home in the garage.

Speaking of the garage... here it is acting as a temporary garbage dump

You may notice the bathroom sink in there.  We re-did the powder room while we were at it, but that will be a seperate post.

I mentioned before that we didn't have a big budget so I had to be creative and really find "connections".  Our good friends hooked us up with some contacts for flooring and countertops.  We were able to get contractor pricing and that was HUGE.  We decided to get unfinished oak floors and chose a 4 inch plank.  The price was so good we did the whole ground floor!

Look at all the DUST!  We had to live in a dog friendly hotel for a week while this was getting done, but it was worth it.

Next I had to pick the stain.  I chose Jacobean because I love dark wood floors.  Cleaning them is a pain with 2 huge dogs, but oh so worth it!



Bode resting by the front door on his new floors.  More to come!!!!


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