Sunday, July 27, 2008

The Kitchen Project

Last Saturday morning, with a couple of my coworkers' assistance, Alex managed to dismantle the kitchen cabinets in a matter of hours.

The original kitchen, circa 1949, was small and sparse.

Original cabinets





The first piece coming down...





And how we've been surviving for the past week:





Tomorrow we will lose the sink for a few days, since the plumber will come to cap the lines and get it moved out for the new cabinet install on Tuesday. Alex has been scraping the glue from where the old laminate backsplash was mounted, and we have tile samples that we'll decide on later this week.

We had a $500 trip to Lowe's yesterday (haven't done that in a long, long time!), where we came away with an acrylic sink, a new faucet, a garbage disposal, and other miscellaneous necessities.

We're not doing anything with our floor right now - it's in good shape; it's a laminate that looks like stone (actually, it looks a lot like the tile samples we picked up yesterday).

So that's our current status. More photos to come, hopefully this week!

1 comment:

Betseeee said...

Wow, I love the deconstructionist look you have going right now. I guess this is a good time to be doing a kitchen renovation - who wants to use the stove in the summer anyway? And there's lots of fresh produce around. I hope it's finished before the first frost. ;-)

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