more kitchen renovation

Hello readers! It has been a week since the last post, longer than we meant to take so it shouldn't surprise you to know it is Matt writing this time.

We left off last post with Katherine starting to paint. Since then we have made considerable but less impressive progress than the first week. For starters, I have been pulling back to back alerts leaving Katherine home alone to conquer the kitchen by herself.

As you can see she completed the new paint job, and what an interesting color we have picked. We are hoping it ties the dark appliances and the lighter cabinets together.

After feeling more a hindrance than a help last week, Oscar and Lola vowed to provide more assistance this time around. Here they can be seen reminding us of how quickly time passes when you are remodelling a kitchen.

Next, it was time for the manly stuff. So we invited Chris Perr, our manly friend over, and he demonstrated the proper way to align the spine when installing cabinets. In about an hour and a half we installed all of the wall cabinets.

Not pictured here are the following scenes:

1) Katherine noticing that our freshly hung cabinets are slightly crooked

2) Me being a good husband and not saying anything TOO inappropriate

3) Katherine and I taking down most of our day's hard work

4) Katherine and I putting the same cabinets back up 3 different times with varying incorrect results

5) Katherine demoing the ceiling

6) Chris Perr coming back over to help us correctly hang the cabinets

Next on the docket was floor removal. Again, I was kind enough to leave this all to Katherine. She did a wonderful enough job to leave her a spare moment to take an artsy transition picture.

When I got home, Oscar was helping quality check the cabinets and the ladder.

Lola tried to help, but quickly discovered her own paralyzing fear of heights.

Soon thereafter, Katherine and I cut the new floor to size. She used her techniques and I used my own.

Similarly, the dogs each helped in their own way.

Then, of course, they got quite tired.

Katherine glued the floor in anticipation of the appliances being delivered and installed the next day.

The dogs were none too happy about the whole "not allowed to romp in the new kitchen as we let the glue dry" rule. There may have also been some abandonment issues to resolve.

However, at the end of the day, all was well and the new room met the approval of the little guys.

 

So, all in all, we did accomplish a fair amount of work. There is plenty more to post next time to include the arrival and installation of our appliances (spoiler alert, we now have fresh ice cubes and cold drinking water somewhere in our kitchen), the replacing of the cabinet doors, the dreaded base cabinets and plumbing and the exciting and much anticipated conclusion to the on-going mystery:

What will our first meal from the new kitchen be? 

-Matt