As promised, all photos! I may or may not do a final wrap up on video, with interviews. We’ll see. Read the whole story in order, if you want: 1. The whole story started with the hood installation in mid-June 2. Things really got cooking [...]
Next day, I was in my grubs by 8:30 and had the sink installed by 9:30. Alexandra said, “ Don’t you have to put down a sealer or something? I’m just asking.” The beads of sweat popped out on my forehead. Getting it in hadn’t [...]
When Friday dawned we had great hopes for a transformation, and got close. As we looked over the paint job in the morning light, we found it tolerable. I saw every flaw, Alexandra told me to quit complaining, and I complied. The BR Electric guys [...]
July 13-14 Wed Thurs We left off in #5 with the kitchen in primer, ready to be painted, I hope, because that’s where I’m taking up the tale. (Number 6 was the Tile Teaser) We were a day out of synch with our schedule, but [...]
Here are the tile shots, before, after tiling before grouting and after grouting. Wow. Stuck on with thin-set, it took maybe 3.5 hours to do the job. This is prior to grouting. Watch this space for more junk on our kitchen rebuild. I’ll get around [...]
Kitchen Mission Official Day One: Schedule Scramble Windfall Day July 10 We got started a day early because I took a medical at Nationals in Reno. I got stabbed over the right knee on my attack and then in the next tenth of a second [...]
The epic kitchen renovation will start on July 12 in full stride: We got the first 31 pieces—cupboard doors and drawers—into primer. I toddled into the kitchen 9ish on Saturday and John and I pulled hardware. Kid got pretty good with the drill, I doubt [...]
The kitchen remodel actually started a few weeks ago when we bought the first appliance, a 36-inch Kenmore hood. We drug that monster home and put it in the basement in mid-May. A week later, I got the bug and set to. It was simple, [...]
The counter guy came to measure, today. I’ll write that up in a few days. Bit of a patchy day Sunday, the 19th, but I did get all nine initial pieces (five doors, 2 drawers, 2 inside shelves) sanded and their handle, hinge hole and [...]
We’re doing a renovation of our 1963 kitchen. The cupboards are varnished 3/4-inch plywood, in great shape except the finish is way old and the hardware is that once-so-fashionable faux-French beaten copper stuff. So, we’re painting the cupboards, changing out the counter tops, having the [...]