We walked through the threshold of "our home" Friday October 30th and promptly demolished our kitchen to nothing but walls and floor (and windows) on November 1st. We had electrical rewiring and walls refinished around December 13th. We had cabinets/appliances and a countertop installed/completed to form a working kitchen in time for a family holiday dinner December 27th. Jonathan, his dad and his uncle installed the kitchen floor December 30th which was followed by a long anticipated range hood installation around February 20th. March 10th we went ahead with our tile backsplash install and also completed our custom made back door using a doorlite kit. As of May 3rd we've managed to pull together the finishing touches by decorating a recently purchased tchotchkes shelving unit, setting up a new, more room appropriate, custom kitchen table, painting the interior milk deposit door and finishing the application/painting of the floor molding.
After nearly two months of dining out for just about every meal and saving leftovers in a cooler to be reheated with our microwave, it took about 4 months of kitchen projects to piece together an inviting, highly functional, pretty modern kitchen. There were battles over this and that and many a lesson learned on patience and compromise, but I think I can safely say our kitchen is finished. I realize the word "finished" is more of a hypothetical term because when it comes to home ownership, projects never really finish, instead they get close enough to completion to make you convince yourself that they're done. One room down, plenty more to go. Check out the slide show to the left for a visual trip through our kitchen re-do.
Next project to be completed: painting the front of the house before triple digits set in.
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