Not long after our new basement room was finished we started thinking about what we could do with our kitchen.
Actually, we started thinking about the kitchen before the basement was finished. We told ourselves that the basement would be this year’s project and we’d tackle the kitchen next year. We were pleased with the work our carpenter did on the basement and told him we’d call him next year for the kitchen.
But about a month after the basement was done we figured, why wait?
Our kitchen is small and horribly ugly. It’s always been kind of embarrassing to have company come over and see it.
Wow, the grime from that stove has done a number on those cabinets and walls! But that's ok...that wall and those cabinets will soon be history.
The plan is to knock out the wall between the kitchen and the dining room. We’ll leave the counter that’s on that wall, creating a bar separating the two rooms.
Kris really took charge of this one. She met with the kitchen designer and took the lead on picking out the cabinets, counter top, fixtures, appliances, etc. I helped pick things out from samples and pictures she brought home, but I really have to give her a lot of credit on this.
This corner will soon hold more cabinets and counter space.
And now she’s pretty much single handedly ripping out the kitchen floor! We were going to pick out a new tile to replace the awful tile that was there. Then Kris started taking some of it up and we realized there was hard wood underneath (actually, there is ugly tile, then a layer of plywood, then a layer of uglier tile and then hardwood). So we’re going to get down that hardwood and have it refinished.
Anyway, tomorrow morning (later this morning, actually) the demolition will begin. Hopefully our new kitchen will be ready soon!
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