For an update on this post check out Kitchen Before & After Part 2 seen here!!
It is Friday afternoon and I am painting, again. I had to stop waiting for miracle 60 degree weather to sand the doors and decided to bite the bullet and do it inside again...don't tell E! This time I am doing 2 doors at once to cut down on clean up time and wasting brushes - oil primer is very hard to remove when you have no mineral spirits around! I am now waiting for the primer on one side to finish drying so I can flip them and do the other side...I hate to wait!
I figured while I am waiting I would share some Kitchen Before/After pics I have been waiting to write about. This is the post I have been dreading writing (not wanting to relive the construction experience!) but its time has come. If you have seen the Before Shots page then you know how desperately in need of a gut rehab this kitchen was...
I mean, where is the cabinet space? Where are the cabinets? What about counter space? What is going on with the whole fridge side of the kitchen?? Why is there a set of patio doors in my house?? It was a horrible excuse for a cookin' girls kitchen. Oh - and you can't even see the old fridge here as we switched that out as soon as we moved in. It was a honkin beast, I tell ya! We could not wait to start construction! Demo was the fastest and easiest part of the process...
First step was to remove the doorway that encroached into our kitchen space and take down the patio doors. It felt so open already! I'm not sure if you notice the paneling on the walls but that was the next to go...Hasta la Vista, Baby! Old stinky cabinets...smell ya later! We were left with a little something like this:
Did anyone notice my original design flaw in the second set of pics? I was so concerned about losing the side entrance to the house that in the first demo round I had them put in a door between the kitchen and family room. The very moment it was in I knew I had made a mistake. Putting a door in the middle of the room proved too awkward and made the room look really chopped up. Thankfully the guys were SUPER nice and agreed to take it out and only have me pay the cost of 2x4's to cover it back up...you can tell they may have been through this a few times with their own wives! The above pics show it all patched up again. Sweet!
We also moved the bathroom door which was on the inside of the patio doors before to the other side so it would not be in our kitchen...that would be kind of weird... Here is the shot mid move where we still had access from the original side! I'm sure I don't have to point it out but the white door is the new one...
Once those things were finished I really had to get cracking on my kitchen design. Thanks to Ikea's handy dandy planning tool I was able to do it pretty easily. Stay tuned for Part 2 of the big remodel. I have to get back to priming my doors!! By Monday I am hoping to have my doors sanded/painted and back on the closets with freshly updated hardware...
Bianca
For an update on this post check out Kitchen Before & After Part 2 seen here!!
This post is linked to Dittle Dattles Amaze Me Monday parade of posts! Check them out here!!
It is Friday afternoon and I am painting, again. I had to stop waiting for miracle 60 degree weather to sand the doors and decided to bite the bullet and do it inside again...don't tell E! This time I am doing 2 doors at once to cut down on clean up time and wasting brushes - oil primer is very hard to remove when you have no mineral spirits around! I am now waiting for the primer on one side to finish drying so I can flip them and do the other side...I hate to wait!
I figured while I am waiting I would share some Kitchen Before/After pics I have been waiting to write about. This is the post I have been dreading writing (not wanting to relive the construction experience!) but its time has come. If you have seen the Before Shots page then you know how desperately in need of a gut rehab this kitchen was...
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| Mystery Man, E, through the sliding glass doors... |
I mean, where is the cabinet space? Where are the cabinets? What about counter space? What is going on with the whole fridge side of the kitchen?? Why is there a set of patio doors in my house?? It was a horrible excuse for a cookin' girls kitchen. Oh - and you can't even see the old fridge here as we switched that out as soon as we moved in. It was a honkin beast, I tell ya! We could not wait to start construction! Demo was the fastest and easiest part of the process...
Did anyone notice my original design flaw in the second set of pics? I was so concerned about losing the side entrance to the house that in the first demo round I had them put in a door between the kitchen and family room. The very moment it was in I knew I had made a mistake. Putting a door in the middle of the room proved too awkward and made the room look really chopped up. Thankfully the guys were SUPER nice and agreed to take it out and only have me pay the cost of 2x4's to cover it back up...you can tell they may have been through this a few times with their own wives! The above pics show it all patched up again. Sweet!
We also moved the bathroom door which was on the inside of the patio doors before to the other side so it would not be in our kitchen...that would be kind of weird... Here is the shot mid move where we still had access from the original side! I'm sure I don't have to point it out but the white door is the new one...
Once those things were finished I really had to get cracking on my kitchen design. Thanks to Ikea's handy dandy planning tool I was able to do it pretty easily. Stay tuned for Part 2 of the big remodel. I have to get back to priming my doors!! By Monday I am hoping to have my doors sanded/painted and back on the closets with freshly updated hardware...
Bianca
For an update on this post check out Kitchen Before & After Part 2 seen here!!
This post is linked to Dittle Dattles Amaze Me Monday parade of posts! Check them out here!!
