I know – there is about a 2 months difference between Day 5 and this post (Day 6) of our kitchen remodeling adventure, many things have changed and many delicious dishes were cooked since, but though of bringing things to a partial closure with this post on kitchen remodeling, so we can get on discussing cooking after all.
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Semi-functional kitchen
Ok, I promise I’ll post about our final passion (COOKING) soon, and not going to bore you with my kitchen cabinetry, etc. I’ll just journal this here to have it for posterity – okay? So, bear with me for a few days.
I managed this weekend to have the 80 year old stove and our fridge (major thing) back into place and start mounting the cabinets. My goal was to have our water running (and draining) by Monday.
Was very long weekend but managed with some help from my in-laws to mount the wall and base cabinets, have the butcher-block counter-top in place and the sink functional.
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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 happy with the results – the floor blended in with the “imperfection” of the dinning room floor and character of the old house.
Even our cat was happy to finally be able to walk through the kitchen to get to his litter-box. poor guy had to stay either isolated upstairs, or down in the basement.
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Sanded Floor
A very dusty day. And tiring too. I rented a drum sander and edger to sand the hardwood floor I found underneath the linoleum. I never used a sander before and despite the challenge I went on and did it myself considering that I will of course never achieve perfection – so much more that the floor had to somehow “fit in” with the rustic, character of our old house.
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Yes, it is that time of the year. We decided that our “L” shaped kitchen needed a desperate face-lift. Nothing dramatic, except new cabinets and a finished floor. But we had to stay within our budget, so between us doing the whole thing and dear IKEA next door, we have a good chance of pulling it off!
Kitchen Before Teardown
Today we started with of course boxing everything, pulling up the old linoleum to reveal the hardwood floor (that needs to be sanded of course), moving the fridge in our dinning room, the stove out in the porch and pulling the old cabinets off the wall. It was amazing, how much you can do in a day if you want to tear down.
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