Kitchen Takes Shape

Before: Loose Bricks

It's been just over a month since the work started on the house. The very first day involved ripping out the old appliances and general demo in the kitchen. Since then most of the efforts have been on getting the upstairs ready and some of the other larger projects. We've finally made a bit of progress getting the kitchen ready to roll.

One of the trial and error projects was fixing the loose bricks in the kitchen. The brick is a thin paver probably about an inch thick. They were laid down directly over the plywood subfloor with mortar. Needless to say the plywood flexes and the bricks don't so several were popped loose. The guys had to pop them out, clean out the hole, and then reattach them using mastic which will hopefully be a bit more flexible than the mortar.

Before: Broken Window

Before: Upper Cabinet Gone

   Next up was patching some serious holes in the wall and prepping to paint over the khaki brown color. While the color was ok, there were many bad spots where the wall was cracked, dinged or otherwise damaged. we decided that if were were going to have to patch and paint anyway we might as well make a color change. The guys pulled down the upper cabinet unit so we could check out the situation with the backsplash. Sadly it was in rough shape as I had predicted. Whenever they did the last renovation they just busted up the wall to run the electric. To make the upper cabinet sit back flush to the wall they busted out the to bullnose tile. It would be a huge deal to have to repair, so we'll end up covering it over somehow.

AFTER: Coming together!

The new counter tops were installed this past week, so we finally have a sense of what it will look like all put back together. The new paint color is up, new window is in, and new pendant lights are hung. All that's left is to install the new backsplashes, reattach the upper cabinet, and install the appliances. We may actually have a kitchen by the time we move it!