More developments

These are photos of a long horizontal cabinet that the previous owners had put up. I wish that I had taken "before" photos of itbefore we had started the removal. It never really fit in with the traditional look of our dining room, but we always figured that it would be a huge mess to remove. Surprise surprise, if I had known how easy it was to remove and that it didn't leave a huge mess in the ceiling, I'd have removed it before.




more cabinet demolition. Soon, this will be gone and we wont have a sink for a while. That seems a little scary. I'll just have to make sure to hurry to get things done. A friend of mine who remodeled her kitchen said she used her bathtub to do dishes. I don't really want to go there, but if necessary, I guess it wont be so bad as long as I don't soak the dishes in the tub, but just simply use the water to run over the dishes. What a headache though.

Oh, and how our house stinks! When you walk in the door, immediately it smells like old, stinky, geriatric dust. It smells like an old persons house. I was thinking to maybe get some incense.

Phase 1: Free (fun) demolition

This is really exciting. I was worried we would run into a pandora's box type of situation but so far, so good. The part that makes me really happy is that the demo is free, since we're doing it ourselves. We setup a makeshift kitchen in the dining room and we're being really organized about it. Here are some photos:

Here's our makeshif kitchen and the start of the cabinet removal

check out that 60's- circa wallpaper! Bye bye, nasty faux-brick!

My husband, who's doing the demo, had to get in the photo.

Stay tuned!

The start of something beautiful

I hope we know what we're doing. I'm so scared that this is going to ba Pandora's box kind of thing.... The previous owners NAILED and GLUED the cabinets to the wall. Anyone who has done any research on installing cabinets knows you're supposed to SCREW them in!!!! Is it too late to back out?

what's the holdup?

okay, You're probably wondering why I haven't posted!! We are going to start pulling the old nasty cabinets down next week.

I am really apprehensive because once we start, we are committed, and I'm not sure what the total plan is just yet. I would like to just get all the cabinets down, make sure the walls are okay, and then put the cabinets down. One thing at a time.

Stay tuned!

Welcome!

Welcome to my outdated, dingy, outdated, dingy, dingy and outdated kitchen. In the next few months, I am hoping to have my dream (relatively speaking) kitchen. stay tuned!

here's one angle with the flash, and without. The flash, of course makes the kitchen look halfway decent. It's not though! The second photo is a truer reflection.

This is our stained, dingy so-called "rustic" wannabe tile. It's partly our fault that it looks so bad- we installed it ourselves as amateurs. I don't want to make the same mistake twice. Our new kitchen will be done PRO-FESS-ION-A-LLY!

this is probably the biggest thorn in my side. The previous owners put this nasty faux-brick up on the backsplash. We didn't know what to do in the beginning when we first bought the house, so we painted it white. what else could you do with it? But it's gross, and it's gonna be GONE!!! Yuck. I have nightmares about that nasty brick.

So, here we are. The first phase of course, is the demolition. I can't wait to get the old ugly cheap outdated cabinets off the wall. I will definitely post photos of that!

Coming soon!