Kitchen Remodel: Day 16

The electrical is DONE!

Well, we still have a couple of light fixtures to install, but they won’t be here for another couple of weeks and we probably won’t even put them up until after painting, anyway.

We got appliances this weekend. The fridge is operational. All I had to do was run the water line for the ice and water dispenser. It’s awesome having filtered ice (cubed and crushed) and water in the door. So nice.

The microwave/hood will be professionally installed this week. The sales guy at Lowe’s told The Wife that I’d have “no problem” installing the dishwasher myself. Now, I consider myself decently handy around the house, but I am in no way qualified to install a dishwasher. Hopefully, that will be done this week, too, so we can wash dishes (even if we don’t have a sink).

Pics at the usual place.

Five Little Fishies: a cautionary tale a short film by Steven Jarvis

Not so hot on the heels of our last bit of cinema history comes Five Little Fishies: a cautionary tale. It is a tale of the sea. It is a tale of woe. It’s funny. It’s sad (if you’re a fishie). It’s mostly meant for the grandparents; it’s not as universally appealing as the last opus. (Just over two minutes long; 3.3MB in size; QuickTime necessary for viewing)

Kitchen Remodel: Day 12

The cabinets are being installed today! I’ve got a bunch of photos of the work on the walls (demolition, insulation, drywalling, etc.) to post, as well. The cabinets look SPECTACULAR! See the pics up on the Flickr.

The new appliances (fridge, dishwasher, microwave) arrive Saturday. I’ll have pics and comments on those Saturday night or so.

Kitchen Remodel: Day 1

Our old kitchen is GONE. See pics up on the Flickr. They:

• Tore out our cabinets,
• Tore out our bar and built-in desk (both of which will be replaced),
• Replaced our kitchen window,
• Replaced our sliding glass door in the dining room,
• Moved the laundry closet door (an ancient accordion door) to a different part of the house where a similar but damaged door hung to replace the broken one,
• (mostly) put in some bi-fold doors on the laundry closet, and
• ripped out a wall of paneling that we’re having sheetrocked.

Tomorrow, they’ll finish up the laundry closet doors, replace a chunk of the floor decking that was water damaged (thanks to our leaky but soon-to-be-replaced dishwasher), fine-tune the new sliding glass door and screen door, and rip out our crappy sheet linoleum floor. I think that’s it.

Kitchen Remodel: into the breach!

As I mentioned in a previous post, we’re remodeling our kitchen. So far, we’ve:

1. ordered our cabinets (Venicia by KraftMaid (Lustra Collection in Capri Honey Maple — you’ll see in the pictures),
2. picked out flooring (Armstrong EXCELON Imperial VCT Tiles in “Little Green Apples”)
3. picked out countertop material (Wilsonart laminate that looks like brushed aluminum)
4. ordered some new light fixtures (don’t have web links for them)
5. bought a new window and sliding glass door (boring Pella vinyl replacement windows)

Tomorrow: the demolition begins. Pictures to follow.