String-Or-Nothing » kitchen remodel

We’re in the final glide path to high school graduation here, plus birthdays.  We spent the weekend cleaning and gardening like crazy – and there’s still a ton to do. That means removing a...

https://string-or-nothing.com/2016/05/23/a-hectic-weekend-with-more-to-come/

We’re finally closing in on the last leg of the Great Kitchen Rehab. Cabinets are in.  Appliances are in and working.  Most of the drawer and cabinet pulls are installed.  The protective cov...

https://string-or-nothing.com/2016/05/03/so-close-i-can-almost-taste-it/

It’s been a while since the last post.  Progress has been steady all this time, but it’s been incremental, with not that much that was exciting enough to show off.  After all – one wall�...

https://string-or-nothing.com/2016/04/27/visual-progress/

The Great Kitchen Project continues!  More cabinets were delivered and have been installed.  Here you see the waay-up cabinets.  Sitting between the top of the standard height cabinets and the...

https://string-or-nothing.com/2016/04/15/one-step-forward-one-step-back/

OK, here’s the latest progress on the great kitchen rehab project.  Fernando already these pix of the completed tile floor on Facebook: The wandering washing machine has been moved back to its...

https://string-or-nothing.com/2016/04/10/floor-and-cabinets-start/

Fernando beat me to the post, but progress continues on the kitchen.  We now have walls, shown here as blueboard backing: And after plastering: Today starts the tile floor – grey 6” x 18” ...

https://string-or-nothing.com/2016/03/31/walls/

Some progress – not very photogenic, but we do march along: In these you can see the new supplemental framing, twinned to the older wood.  It’s been put up in order to create a level surface...

https://string-or-nothing.com/2016/03/25/framed-2/

Obviously re-constructing is a slower process than demolition.  But we had a small milestone yesterday – our new, larger window, presented here side-by-side with what was there before. You can...

https://string-or-nothing.com/2016/03/24/brighter/

OK.  The kitchen rehab enters the beginning of the “we’ve taken it all away – now we put it back” phase. As I reported on FaceBook, those remaining walls and ceiling bits had to go.  Th...

https://string-or-nothing.com/2016/03/22/still-bare-and-barren/

Progress!  The soffits we worried about two days ago turned out to be improvised and totally non-structural.  And the walls we wanted gone were similarly non-load-bearing.  So they are now all...

https://string-or-nothing.com/2016/03/17/bare-bones/