Kitchen Renovations

We are hoping to provide a fairly detailed blog over the next week of our kitchen renovations, so that friends and family can read about and see the trials and tribulations of the transformation (alliteration, whoo!). For those of you who have seen the kitchen, the change will be quite dramatic, and will result in about twice the cabinet space, and half again as much counter. Yay!!

We phoned our cabinet company last week to check on the status of our materials, which we expected to arrive and be installed in November. We were pleasantly surprised to hear that the cabinets and counter top were to arrive TODAY!!! Currently, the timeline is that installation will take place early next week. In the meantime, our to-do list includes clearing out the old kitchen (done), demo (today), drywalling (to repair plaster), mudding, taping, cleaning, prepping, priming, and painting (more alliteration!). We made a preliminary start on the demo yesterday by taking out the tile backsplash. You can see the resultant damage to the plaster in the photos below. John got up early this morning and began removing cabinets, and our goal is to have everything out and the new drywall up by the end of the day. The latter should only be a single sheet, so it shouldn't be too difficult.

In the midst of all the work to be done in the next few days, we have a choir rehearsal tonight, a concert on Saturday night, church on Sunday morning, and rehearsals on Monday and Tuesday night of next week. And Kathleen's office is moving tomorrow during the day! NO END TO THE EXCITEMENT!

Some Photos!