There’s nothing like getting your kitchen back from its state of “in construction” state. It is like driving 10 miles through construction zone and finally hitting the end of it with 4 lanes opening in front of you.

Mounting the wall and base cabinets, plus the butcher block counter-top in our kitchen remodeling series.

Basically two days of lightly sanding and then applying oil-based polyurethane. All wrapped up in no more than one hour in the morning, then left to dry at least 24 hours.
In the end, we were …

I spent this next day of our kitchen remodeling in a bubble of dust produced by the drum sander. It was time to sand the floor.

Kitchen remodeling on a budget. The chronicles from start to finish of how a kitchen can get a face lift with only $2,500!