Kitchen Remodel

Jeff has been doing a lot of work on the kitchen.  In addition to working all day long at his job, he comes home and works 3-4 hours each day and then all day on the weekends.  He’s starting to get stressed out, but in the long run, we both know it’s going to be worth it.   Here’s some of what he’s been up to.

         

 Jeff started by demolishing the kitchen, ripping out all the cabinets and removing the drywall so that we are just down to the studs.  He’s upgrading the electrical and we installed a new water heater, which means he had to have access to both electrical and plumbing in the walls.

      

Jeff worked with a couple of guys he knows in the business to help us with the electrical and the plumbing.

 

Additionally in the dining room, we had to move the window because it was installed too close to the front door.  This is against code and the only two solutions are to move the window or install tempered glass.  Jeff chose to move the window, which meant having to rework the framing of the front wall of the house. 

Kitchen Cabinets

We ordered our kitchen cabinets and we got the call that they should be in sooner than thought.  They are due in mid-week next week.  Jeff picked out some really nice cabinets at Home Depot.   We got the American Woodmark Charlottesville collection in Cherry Spice.  The are going to look really nice in our kitchen with the stainless steel appliances.  We will pick out our flooring and countertops after we get the cabinets in.  Jeff also bought some of the stain, so that he could add custom moulding on the cabinets.  We also still have to buy pulls, as well as a kitchen sink, disposal and faucet.

 

Moved in….

Jeff and I moved in on June 10th.  Right now we are living in two of the bedrooms – one functioning like a living room/office and the other functioning as our bedroom.  Everything is really tight and there is not a lot of room to manuever around the furniture in some places.  In the third bedroom, we’ve stored most of our belongings in boxes.

 This first week as been fairly productive.  We’ve installed a new electrical panel, upping our amps to 200.  We purchased our kitchen appliances, installed a tankless water heater and ordered our cabinets.  We expect them to be delivered in about 3 and a half weeks.

 We went to Sears for our appliances. 

We purchased a gas Kitchen Aid 30″ stove with a stainless steel finish. 

We chose Kenmore for our other appliances in the kitchen.  We got a side by side stainless steel refrigerator.  

 

We also go a range hood.   

And a dishwasher.  

We ordered our washer and dryer at the same time.  Those are scheduled to be delivered this weekend.  We got the LG Tromm in white with a stacking kit.