Monday, October 16, 2017

Kitchen Remodel

10/16/17

We are in the midst of crazy kitchen remodel - going on week 5 with no dishwasher, no oven, no real counter space....

The journey all started because I didn't like how our cherry cabinets looked after we stained all the oak trim a walnut color...the redish hue didn't match the new Gray/dark brown theme we seemed to have adopted in our house. So, I got a quote on what it would cost to paint them. It was about 20% of the cost of new cabinets. That seemed reasonable, but we had a cabinet person come in just to see what they had to say. He said that our cabinets were nice, but definitely pointed out a few things that we could do to make them more efficient, and I have always dreamed of having a big island....so we started dreaming and scheming and worked with our new BFF Alex the designer and had something worked up!

In the process of this Josh came up with the idea to reconfigure the entry way from our garage, that would make the kitchen longer (more island friendly) and allow us a much needed place to hang all the coats and kid crap! I have no vision, but now that the wall is done I love it!

I spent the entire weekend painting the newly textured ceiling, walls, pantry, new mud area....6 gallons of paint later and it looks fabulous!

Some fun memories from this journey:

- We sold the cabinets to a really nice couple that is refurbishing a school house in Creston Iowa....would be amazing to have a gym IN your house!!

- During Demo we also found the heart that was left for us by Kathy the last time we did this!

- We about broke josh's back trying to scrape off the crazy amount of quickset we used with the last tile!

- I learned to make an entire hot breakfast at once on the griddle!

- Penny and Colin brought us a tray of food because they knew we were down a kitchen, mom made us multiple dinners and had us over, and Stone's invited us over for dinner...so much kindness!

- I sold the cabinets, stove, barstools and microwave in relatively little time...thank you Craigslist!

- The damn counter took us (and by us I mean Josh) literally smashing the tiles with a hammer to get it dislodged! Jon Bellis had to come and help us carry the monstrousity out of our house with sink still attached!






















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