Finished (under the lights)
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Finished (okay, baseboard and crown moulding still to come)
Finishing up the cabinets (7/29-8/18)
More light images
Measuring for the countertops
Still need the toe-kick
There is something missing!
Hanging those china cabinets
China cabinets hung and trimmed
Building and hanging the cabinets (7/4 – 7/29)
Oven cabinet under construction
Cabinets for the oven wall
Lily can’t figure it out
Cabinets all hung on the oven side
Base cabinets in the “cubby”
First try at the range hood cabinet.
Range hood cabinet removed – it was too tall!
Jim is wiring the wall oven.
Range hood cabinet completed
Lots of cabinets ready to be installed
Ready for the Carousel and Cooktop cabinets
What’s so funny?
Newly placed plumbing before the sink cabinet goes in
Carousel installed
The new sink cabinet in place and the under-sink supply plumbing done!
A lot of clean-up has been done
Still need the toe-kick
The rebuilding process (7/1 – 7/2)
Lights!
Look at all them lights!
Sink/Cooktop corner ready for priming
Oven wall ready for priming
Sink and cooktop walls primed
Oven wall primed
The step up from the office
The deconstruction process (4/2 thru 4/21)
more deconstruction.
One more cabinet to go on that wall
Wall cabinets gone
Removing the carousel
So, apparently there was carpeting and linoleum in the kitchen area based on what we found under the wood laminate.
Lily trying to make sense of the floor!
Got the laminate up, now for the vinyl!
The pantry framing
And now the pantry is no more!
Insulation between the kitchen and the office
Another angle
Yet another angle
Still another angle
Disassembling the pantry
The pantry
So much for the sink!
Almost gone!
Gotta disassemble this in pieces!
More deconstruction
Where does this outlet go? (4/28/2013)
Creative wiring 101.
Not exactly up to code, someone in the past decided this was the way to do a splice in a wall! That wall is at least 10 inches thick with R30 insulation squeezed between two 2×4 stud walls.
The plumbing mess (4/28/2013)
Here is what we found.
Amazed that we had any hot water flow at all! Look at trhe kink in the left pipe, especially, although BOTH were kinked!
New Kitchen Window (4/21/2013)
The old kitchen window was a single-hung vertically opening window that was dificult to open, especially when the kitchen sink was in place, so we decided to change to a slider.
Here’s what it looked like from outsde, before during the change.
And here’s what it looks like, now. And of course, the tradesmen must admire their work
We’ve had some assistance…
“What can we do, huh?” Our helpers, Kelly and Lily (left to right).