Kitchen-week 2 & 3

Weeks 2 and 3 kind of blended together. There was a lot of electric/plumbing work going on. There wasn't anything "pretty" happening, so I was ready for this phase to be over! But it was all the really important stuff that can't be skipped, that's for sure! It seemed to drag out a bit, too, because we lost 2 days due to weather and another day b/c the lead contractor had truck trouble one day. BUT, you can see here that the header was added. Also, the wall was ready to come down-it was only the flimsy drywall between the 2 rooms at this point-I was itching so see it down!! But I realized they were keeping it up as long as possible to contain the dust, so I would have to wait a little longer.

Lots of work was done inside the walls...drywall was cut away and electric was pulled out and re-wired.

Here you can see the beams supporting the wall while the header was going in.

We ran into a bit of a hiccup-as they were working on the wall they realized the floors had a slope/dip in them because the beams holding up the were positioned in between the joists rather than on them. This explained our uneven flooring in there. They went under the house and built supports to correct the problem and to ensure the new flooring would lay correctly. He said adding this might mess up the current hardwood in the LR, but luckily it did not!

Drywall down and plumbing/electrical work happening.

And lines on the ceiling for our recessed lighting that will be added. I'm excited about this!

We originally asked them to put our old cabinetry in the garage thinking that we would save it and use at least some of it in the second garage for storage/organization. After it sat for a few days, though, our thoughts changed as we realized we wouldn't be able to do this any time soon and they were awfully big things to just have laying around. So, we decided to donate the cabinetry, faucet, and sink to Habitat. Goodbye cabinets!

Ta-da!! Finally the wall was cut away in the 3rd week and we could at least envision the look we were going for. I loved it immediately!

Here you can see all the circles are cut for the recessed lighting-whoohoo!!

 Here is the header up, wall down, drywall back in place, and on the half wall you can see plumbing for the sink and dishwasher in place. This was taken on 3/29.

We left that afternoon to head to TN for Easter weekend, and we stopped by Steven's dad's place first and checked out his new woodworking shop he just had put in their backyard.  He has been working on a table for us, and we got to see it in person. We love it! We asked him to make benches so that they can slide under and hopefully save us some space. He also showed us a few of the stain mix options we had suggested. Seeing them in real life was helpful so we were able to pick what we wanted it to look like. The tops will be a gray and brown stain mix and the legs will be white. I'm excited to see it in the dinette once he finishes. So nice to have a retired handyman in the family!:)