My HAPPY Place.....when I'm not...

[kimmar067]

Way over the top wonderful, Kimmar! Love everything you've done.

....thank you.

 

[kimmar067]

......sooooooo, we FINALLY started work on our kitchen, but I never dreamed that it would take so gosh darn LONG! Truth be told, construction actually began way back last year when we were in the trhroes of the bedroom construction. You see, the 2nd doorway [ or should I say door, since there was actually a door going into the hall - weird, I know...]

....and that's about how far it's gotten for the better part of almost a whole year....

 

[kimmar067]

Since the kitchen was one that you could hardly call an 'eat-in' kitchen, the plan was to remove the wall separating the kitchen from the dining room and create an open-concept eating area. However, not unlike that pesky 'domino-effect', once construction would commence, we would proceed from the kitchen, to the dining room, to the back family room, to the soon-to-be-constructed deck. The reasoning is two-fold: first, they are all interconnected, and second, we had a time constraint - namely, the permits were running out, so time was DEFINITELY of the essence...here is a picture of said wall:

 

[MICKEY'S DREAMERS]

CIAOOO Kim !!
Such a long time since I have been on line - so much happening here ...
Anyway, your kitchen-dining area is coming up ... isn't it ? AND I AM, as always, VERY CURIOUS INDEED !!!
Thinking of you , it surely isn't easy to live WITH construction work going on !!

LOADS of love from Italy !!

 

[tiggrbaby]

Can't wait to see the results!

 

[PrincessInOz]

It's going to be a fantastic kitchen and an amazing home!!!

 

[kimmar067]

I don't know what it is about 'Demo Day', but all men seem to love breaking stuff, and break they did. I had gone to school that morning, to come home to:

NO WALL..

NO CABINETS


....and no hideous wallpaper!

 

[kimmar067]

...the next step was to insure that all the floors were at the same level, so, after installing sub-flooring, the piles of red oak strips were placed into the empty room, since that was the next step....

.....I cannot get over how amazing it is when you leave in the morning, and return later in the day, to find true progress:

...and remember that door? GONE!

 

[kimmar067]

.....and, after the oak flooring was installed...

....the walls were going to be either sheetrocked or the bumps and imperfections were going to be respackled, since all the original walls and ceiling were of plaster, the norm for the early 50's [truthfully, there was NOTHING normal about the plaster job in our house. The original owners were also the original owners of a local catering hall ~The Fiesta ~ and apparently, they wanted the BEST. Heavy-gauge steel and 1-1/4" of plaster is fine if you want your home standing for the next century, but is living hell when you are replacing or removing it! ]

....now, to choose a wall color.....hmmmmmm.....

 

[PrincessInOz]

WOW!

Imagine that. I go to bed one night and wake up to find your kitchen wall and your subfloor and your floor and your walls all done. Great job to your DH for getting it done soooo quickly!!!!




It looks amazing! I can't wait to see if you chose lemon or lime or tangerine or mango or cream or strawberry for you wall colour.

 

[kimmar067]

...... why do I suddenly have a hankering for SHERBET?

 

[kimmar067]

WOW!

Imagine that. I go to bed one night and wake up to find your kitchen wall and your subfloor and your floor and your walls all done. Great job to your DH for getting it done soooo quickly!!!! ....

....they have the ultimate set of Sears Craftsman power tools....

 

[PrincessInOz]

...... why do I suddenly have a hankering for SHERBET?

If it helps, I had passionfruit gelato yesterday.

....they have the ultimate set of Sears Craftsman power tools....

On steroids!!!

 

[franandaj]

So you took out the door going to the hallway???

I thought you said the kitchen was finished...

 

[tiggrbaby]

Love the floor!

 

[LegoMom3]

Men DO love "demo day". As long as they make it nice and pretty again, have at it! Looks like great progress is being made. It's a lot of hard work but nice when you can make a house "yours."

.

 

[kimmar067]

...now, mind you, all this work was being done 'after hours'....that is, after a long hard day's work on other construction sites, but plow through they did....I knew that the proverbial light was at the end of the tunnel when, one afternoon, I returned home from school and almost bumped into THIS:

 

[kimmar067]

....oh, and BTW, I finally decided on Online, the grayish-blue wall color that would coordinate with the living room:

....they were a bit over-zealous about the paint though....too bad most of it would eventually be covered up with TILE!

 

[kimmar067]

.....the kitchen was definitely beginning to resemble a kitchen with the installation of every new cabinet:

[That cabinet below the window would eventually house a farmhouse sink, one of my guilty pleasures! ]

 

[kimmar067]

I was going for that subway tile look on the backsplash, but who knew that there are so many from which to choose?