oday was Day 23 of the kitchen remodel. The job was estimated at 3 weeks and it looks like it will be pretty close. As of today, the bulk of the work is finished. The backsplash has been installed, lots of additional odds and ends were completed. The appliances were moved back into place. The…
he granite countertops were installed this afternoon, and I think the granite looks very good with both the floors and the wall color. The new sink was also installed. There is still work to be done. The next big thing is the backsplash, which I think will really clean the room up. Then there are…
he last few days have been relatively quiet as far as the kitchen remodel goes. On Tuesday, the granite crew was here to do the final measurements for the counters. The counters are (theoretically) being installed today. Yesterday, the painters were here and got started on repainting the kitchen with the color we selected. I…
he crew did not come by on Friday so there were no changes. But they did come by this morning to build the wall for the breakfast bar, and in preparation for installing the granite countertops next week. We also have to finalize our paint colors on Monday. You can see two of the possibilities…
loomy day here today, and about 25 degrees cooler than yesterday. Rainy, too. Fortunately, rain doesn’t affect work indoors. The crew showed up late in the morning and began installing the cabinets. And so, for the first time since the old cabinets were ripped out, the pictures today look very different from yesterday. I love…
he crew showed up around 8 am, and since I was working from home today (mostly because I had a dentist appointment this morning) I could hear them working away downstairs while I worked away upstairs. They finished the floors today, including the grouting between the tiles, which I think made a very big difference…
e were out of town for the long holiday weekend, so I don’t have pictures from the intervening days, but that is okay, because it turns out no work was done while we were gone. However, the crew was back today. They finished laying the tiles on the floor of the kitchen, and also started…
he tile crew was here for most of the day today (about 9 am – 3 pm) and completing the initial tile installation for about 75% of the kitchen. Because there is still work to be done, and certain parts of the kitchen are inaccessible, I wasn’t able to get all of the usual angles…
rogress on a couple of fronts today, although the photos look much the same as yesterday. The electrician came by today to install GFI outlets and switches into the kitchen. Our house was originally built in 1980 and so it didn’t have GFI in the kitchen, but now it does! Tomorrow, the tile guys are…
here is a certain excitement coming home each day when you know the crew has been to the house to do some work. As the workday drew to a close, I kept wondering what progress they made throughout the day. We arrived home to find some progress indeed! The bulk of the subflooring for the…
esterday was the first official day of the remodel. The crew came by to demolish the old kitchen and did a pretty good job of it. It only took them about 3 hours! The photos below were taken after the first crew left, but before the second crew1 came by to haul away all of…