Kitchen Upgrade: Finished for the Moment

The plumbers came by to day and attached the faucet, garbage disposal and dishwasher. The next step is to get quotes for installing some new flooring.

Kitchen Upgrade: Day 3

We're 96% done! Today involved the cabinetry contractor finishing up the work that yesterday's snowstorm kept him from doing. Then around 1:00 the counter top guys came in. The only thing left is for the plumber to put in the faucet then reattach the garbage disposal and dishwasher. I really like the look of the molding on the top. But you can really tell that the appliances are old. So which is next, flooring or appliances?

 Upon careful inspection you can see that the cats have been released from their prison.

Kitchen Upgrade: Day 2

The morning snowstorm and the ensuing traffic problems delayed the contractor this morning, so he wasn't quite able to finish his work today. The countertops are scheduled to arrive between 11:30 and 1:30 so he should have enough time to, if not be finished, be far enough along that they won't be in each other's way.

There's not much left to do. All the drawers are assembled, but not installed. The white laminate will go on the toekick and all the handles need to be attached. There's also a crown molding that will go around the top.

Kitchen Upgrade: Day 1

Day 1 is over and it's looking pretty good. The contractor stayed much later than I expected; though he also showed up later than I expected. But I think he stayed so late because he's determined to be finished in two days instead of three.

After some initial removal of a few items, demolition started in earnest.

It also revealed some awesome wallpaper that was covered up

The dust-protector kept all the sawdust confined and left an air of mystery to the proceedings.

Here's how it looks overnight. Not too different from afar from the first picture, but there was a good deal of sanding and the bottoms of the upper cabinets have been finished. most (all?) of the upper cabinet sides have the white laminate attached too.

Here's a closer look at the cabinets

Finally, here are the doors, just waiting to be attached. Incidentally, Jameson really liked seeing the hardware being screwed into the doors.

Kitchen Upgrade

After over a year of thought and consideration we are finally upgrading our kitchen (with an eye towards selling). I'm posting this after midnight so the work technically starts today. Here are the  "before" pictures.

We're just updating the cabinetry right now. We will eventually get new flooring.