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Monday, January 28, 2008
The kitchen
Certainly isn't done, but we got all the cabinets placed tonight, and gee whiz, we do awesome work. LOL. We chose Ginger maple cabinets, cork floor, some sort of blackish faux granite counters, satin nickle hardware. It has a very modern, but somehow old house look to it. I can't wait to have it done to post piccys!
We're in!
Forgive me readers, it's been almost a month since my last confession.
We moved into our new old house on 1/11 - and every night, I think to myself; "Self, you need to post on the blog..." but every night, the utter exhaustion I feel over rules the desire to type anything.
So an overview... We moved in on a Friday. Everything went well. Movers showed up on time - which was a good start. I spent time after the first hour we owned it, ripping out the carpet in the dining room. That was my first disappointment. The beautiful hardwood floors, weren't so beautiful; underneath the crusty cat p'd carpet. There were originally walls the section off the dining room into a much smaller room, and of course, when the walls were removed, the flooring was missing, so it was patched with crummy MDF. YIKES.
Saturday: We spent the day cleaning, and trying to unpack necessities. I was working on the kitchen.... Disappointment number two: There were no drawers to fit our silverware trays. This is the reason for my exhaustion and negligence in posting.... We Stripped the kitchen. Down to the walls!!!
Cabinets are out, flooring is out, Wallpaper is gone, large misplaced (although original) window has been removed (carefully) and the opening has been framed & drywalled over for a much smaller, more proportionally appropriate, and correctly placed antique stained glass window (thanks eBay!) over the kitchen sink.
So where are we today? Cabinets are going tonight. Beautiful Ginger Maple solid wood cabinets, I sourced from a place in Lancaster PA. http://www.bluerocksurplus.com/ Todd owns the business, and he was great to work with. I highly recommend him. Poor Todd, we actually mis-measured a cabinet, and need to buy a couple more to make it all fit.
Needless to say, I am tired.
One wonderful thing, tho. Although it added quite a bit more work.... I think it will be worth it. We were investigating one night, and discovered our antique hardwood strip flooring continued under the sub floor in the kitchen.... That's exactly what we needed to correct all the patches in the flooring in the living room and dining room!!!! It was quite a chore to remove the linoleum, and all the luan sub floor to get to the hardwood strips and to remove the strip flooring without breaking it, but it was impossible to find replacement, and that was motivation enough for us. We did it in several hours time.
Pictures? Yes, i have some on my digital, which is somewhere in the mess called the dining room... I will attempt to post some later this week. I will also hopefully have some more that show a kitchen that looks like a kitchen again!
We moved into our new old house on 1/11 - and every night, I think to myself; "Self, you need to post on the blog..." but every night, the utter exhaustion I feel over rules the desire to type anything.
So an overview... We moved in on a Friday. Everything went well. Movers showed up on time - which was a good start. I spent time after the first hour we owned it, ripping out the carpet in the dining room. That was my first disappointment. The beautiful hardwood floors, weren't so beautiful; underneath the crusty cat p'd carpet. There were originally walls the section off the dining room into a much smaller room, and of course, when the walls were removed, the flooring was missing, so it was patched with crummy MDF. YIKES.
Saturday: We spent the day cleaning, and trying to unpack necessities. I was working on the kitchen.... Disappointment number two: There were no drawers to fit our silverware trays. This is the reason for my exhaustion and negligence in posting.... We Stripped the kitchen. Down to the walls!!!
Cabinets are out, flooring is out, Wallpaper is gone, large misplaced (although original) window has been removed (carefully) and the opening has been framed & drywalled over for a much smaller, more proportionally appropriate, and correctly placed antique stained glass window (thanks eBay!) over the kitchen sink.
So where are we today? Cabinets are going tonight. Beautiful Ginger Maple solid wood cabinets, I sourced from a place in Lancaster PA. http://www.bluerocksurplus.com/ Todd owns the business, and he was great to work with. I highly recommend him. Poor Todd, we actually mis-measured a cabinet, and need to buy a couple more to make it all fit.
Needless to say, I am tired.
One wonderful thing, tho. Although it added quite a bit more work.... I think it will be worth it. We were investigating one night, and discovered our antique hardwood strip flooring continued under the sub floor in the kitchen.... That's exactly what we needed to correct all the patches in the flooring in the living room and dining room!!!! It was quite a chore to remove the linoleum, and all the luan sub floor to get to the hardwood strips and to remove the strip flooring without breaking it, but it was impossible to find replacement, and that was motivation enough for us. We did it in several hours time.
Pictures? Yes, i have some on my digital, which is somewhere in the mess called the dining room... I will attempt to post some later this week. I will also hopefully have some more that show a kitchen that looks like a kitchen again!
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