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counter and the one at the right is all the counter space I have.
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Day 1 of remodeling --
everything is torn out to the bare walls.  |
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And the wall comes tumbling
down...  |
ewwww .... ugly green linoleum that was original to
the house. |
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WOW -- what a mess Day 1 was.
I'm sure Day 2 will be much better -- right?
At least we have cabinets today!
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And one corner cabinet got hung!  |
| Oops -- cabinet base is shorter
than old ones -- guess we'll need a new floor! 
And over that ugly green linoleum is the black &
white linoleum. The top layer (wood laminate) was stripped off. |
The new flooring is laminate that looks like stone tiles. |
| OK -- floor is in. What's
this? Call the plumber and move plumbing over 6 inches so sink can
be centered under window.  |
After the plumber and flooring --
electric work had to be done. Rewiring because dishwasher and
stove weren't going in the same place. Any
bets on if any cabinets get put in on Day 3
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Stay tuned ... |
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These end cabinets are all
glass doors. The doors to the corner cabinets on each end came
with plain doors and will be re-ordered.
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| Range goes here and then
base cabinets next to it. The top cabinets were wrong size and had
to be re-ordered.
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Cabinet far right of window was
wrong size and
had to be re-ordered.  |
Still another base cabinet
goes in bottom - left
Dishwasher goes in the space bottom - right
Mike and I put the shelves in this evening.
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There will be a drawer base at the
end of the kitchen where the blank space is now. Probably go in
tomorrow.  |
| I love the large base corner
cabinets with the lazy susans!
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Great place to play hide 'n seek!  |
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4 -- the guys are working half day and hopefully get the rest
of the cabinets installed. Maybe the appliances can be put
in on Monday and I can at least have a stove.
(keeping my fingers crossed)
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They put almost all of the cabinet doors on.
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| And getting the cabinets across
the bottom completed
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There will be glass on the cabinet
fronts on those
two corner cabinets, too.
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| At this end of the kitchen, there
will be a bar/counter going across. Probably long enough for 3 bar
stools.
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| I love these two corner cabinets
with the lazy susans!  |
This cabinet with the large pull
out shelves is next to my stove to hold my pots and pans.  |
Day 5 (Sunday) and I'm suppose to get the
appliances.
They'll connect the stove so I can at least cook and put
some plywood on the the tops of the cabinets so I can use them until the
counters are in. |
WOW -- I have a new window
and a dishwasher!
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| This is the wall that the
bar/counter will be attached to. Cabinets on
the one long side are 15 feet! That's a lot of cabinets!
The far end is 10 feet.
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And I can cook now!
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| It'll be a couple of weeks before
the cabinet is in. This is where the wrong size one was ordered.
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And I need a cabinet on the right
side of the window, too.
The guys put some plywood on the cabinet tops until I can get counters.
It may be a couple of weeks for that. I
had a couple of rolls of contact paper left over from 'something' that I
put down on it -- just to make it easier to clean.
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Still a lot of small work to be
done. Baseboard, trim around windows, paint, etc. Counters
should be done in hopefully 2 weeks -- maybe as long as 3 weeks.
Then the tile will be done.
In the meantime -- the guys will come
over and put the knobs on the doors/drawers as soon as I get the ones I want.
It's kinda 'roughing it' with no sink
in the kitchen, but I'll survive!
I'm very happy with what they've
done! |
Yay! The guys went ahead
and put my sink in so I'd have water in the kitchen.
It's going to be about a week - 10 days before my counters will be ready
to be installed.
And Saturday Mike and I picked out
the hardware for the cabinets and he put those on for me.
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| New sink and fixtures  |
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| Pull out trash bin -- didn't want
my trash just sitting around in my new kitchen!  |
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tops went in Tuesday 1/15  |
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