My New Kitchen - Part 1

The next space in our house remodel that I would like to show you is our kitchen; however, there are so many pictures that I decided that I would divide it up into two posts - This post will show what the kitchen looked like before and the process we went through.

Now, before I go any further, these first pictures are pictures of pictures - so the quality is pretty bad.  However, I wanted you to see what the kitchen looked like when we bought the house.

Isn't the wallpaper just bea-U-ti-ful???  Not!  Then put that awful wallpaper with "peachy - pink" cabinets!  Well, let's just say that something HAD to be done!

This is a side of the kitchen that had 'some' of the angled walls - remember I have said that none of the walls in this house were straight - this included the kitchen. (BTW, isn't my son-in-law cute?) In the background was the space that was suppose to be the dining room.

Now you can see where Mountain Man took the cabinets out and placed them in the middle of the room to see if where we wanted to put the island would work.  Please check out the lights and the fan.

We have finally moved into the demo phase of the project.  That awful wallpaper was still on the wall, but Mountain Man and I worked on removing that awful stuff at night when I got off work.  (Last year I worked at the local middle school teaching World History, Science, and Intensive Math.)  It only took about two days to get the wall paper down.  While we didn't have to worry about some walls since they were being replaced but these are outside walls.  We did not replace the drywall on these walls.

Here you can also see that the ceiling is down.  We tore out all those old lights and raised the ceiling as much as we could.

Walls are starting to go back up on Day 4.  The half wall shown above will be the side of the island.  To the left will be the new pantry. 

Now, to cut costs we kept the footprint of the kitchen the same.  It had a good flow between the appliances (you know - that triangle thing they always talk about) and even with the placement of the island it does not interfere.

Drywall going up.

Wood floors installed.

New can lights and chandelier over island installed.



Kitchen cabinets are being installed.

New washer and dryer are being stored in the living room -

 we used places wherever as storage while the work was being done.

Work still in progress

We decided to use an IKEA kitchen.  We went to a local cabinet maker and to one of the home improvement box stores and got estimates. 

All the prices were at least three times as much as the kitchen from IKEA (in fact, one was over four times as much!).  We decided to go with the IKEA kitchen, not only because of the price, but also because it had a 25 year warranty.  We had seen this kitchen in the store and it looked great.  We figured, that with as much traffic that this kitchen got in the store and it still looked great - Mountain Man and I couldn't faze it.

This is where I am going to leave you for this week - next week I'll show you the finished kitchen.

Have a great week and be sure to come back next Wednesday for "My New Kitchen - Part Two"!








Hugs -


Carol




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