Tag: Kitchen Remodeling

Kitchen Revamp – Day 6 (and beyond)

Kitchen Revamp – Day 6 (and beyond)

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.

Kitchen Revamp – Day 5

Kitchen Revamp – Day 5

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

Kitchen Revamp (Day 3 and 4)

Kitchen Revamp (Day 3 and 4)

cat-and-finished-floorBasically 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 resultsĀ  – 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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Kitchen Revamp – Day 2

Kitchen Revamp – Day 2

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 Revamp Day 1

Kitchen Revamp Day 1

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