Demo In The Kitchen

Good morning.

Mike and I are all over the place and my pictures are a mess.  I will try to keep my updates in some kind of order.  Right ow this is what's going on with our kitchen.  We ordered our kitchen cabinets and they are supposed to be in today…yay.  Mike and I are not even close to ready to install cabinets but we will have them:)

We also ran into a glitch with our flooring choices.  We had one tile that we liked but it was a little too light.  We were waiting on a sample of a full tile that we also liked but found out the company halted production and they don't know when they will start making them again…grr!!!  There is one other tile that is in the running but it is a bit smaller than we would like.  So we are back to square one with flooring.  Not fun.  At least we will have our cabinets to be able to take a color sample in when we look at more flooring:)  Same goes for the counter top which we still need to order.

It feels like we are moving slow to me but the drywall work is taking forever…ugh!!

Anyway….let's take you back to the kitchen demo.  Mike taking his frustrations out on the original wall oven cabinet, lol:

I clean up and he keeps tearing more out:

One side of the kitchen is almost out:

I still need the stove and the microwave so we move to the other side.  Mike takes out the old dishwasher that doesn't work:

Cutting through the countertop to get it off:

Ooh….look what we found.  The yellow is the "original" countertop in this house.  The other is what the previous owners painted it to make it look newer:

Mike loves that sledgehammer:

For about a week I worked with the kitchen as it was.  Then Mike wanted to get rid of the dumpster which means we have to get as much out of the kitchen as we can.

Wow…look at that electrical work, lol.  Mike will make it right:)

I got the rest of the knobs, handles and doors off.  Then Mike starts cutting the top again:

Now that the top is cut, Mike can lift it:

The corner base cabinet coming out:

Now for the rest of the kitchen:

Just more countertop.  Man this kitchen is big, lol:

We are taking the kitchen down to the bare minimum.  Usually when we get to this point I set up a temporary kitchen and use another sink in the house.  Unfortunately I have no other sink that I can use. They are either too small and they don't have any counter space so I told Mike we need to keep the kitchen sink until we are ready for a new one.

The last of the old kitchen cabinets:

They are almost gone:

There was a banquet table in the garage that we moved into the kitchen.  That will be my new work area.  I filled some of our grey trunks with dishes, pots and pans, and food and set them on top of the table.  That is to keep all kitchen stuff clean while we continue the endless drywall work, lol.

I am amazed at how horrendous the kitchen walls are.  We definitely have to make some repairs.  Mike bangs out some of the loose plaster:  

I will slowly work on the bad walls while Mike works on all the corners for all the new drywall.


That's all for now.  Today the dumpster was already picked up.  Yay.

Mike and I did get to relax a bit yesterday.  One of our neighbors took us out on their boat…yes ours is still in the garage:

Back to work now.  Have a great week.

Lisa:)