We're almost finished, floors this week, not sure when cabinets will be finished since we're still waiting on Armstrong to get the replacements right.

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We are 2 weeks into renovations. So far, we have demo'd, enlarged opening between kitchen and DR, replaced window and door, put plywood subfloor down, sheetrocked and started taping. This weekend, wood floors are going down and I am very excited to say that our cabinets were delivered this morning! They are piled up in my living room and probably won't be installed until next week. It's is really coming along now! It's pretty difficult living in such a mess though with no kitchen. I have learned however that if you put your mind to it, you can cook just about anything in the grill!

We're earlier along in the process. Everything is ordered, ready to go. Cabinets are scheduled to arrive Aug 1, so I will set up a delivery date after that...Appliances are ready to be delivered whenever I ask.. I have a deposit down on the countertop..

Anybody notice that it seems like we're the only ones out there doing remodels? HD, Lowes, Expo are really *dead*... At least we're doing our part to boost the economy.

I'm in the finishing stage: fill nail holes, touch up paint, some molding to do. The end seems to take the longest.

Oh fun! Love this thread on BAH! Great idea Cindy,

We are a new build. Our cabinets are installed and they just templated for the soapstone. Paint is done... Just waiting on counters, appliance and backsplash.

This is looking into the kitchen from the living room

On the far right is the cabinet for our Advantium and small reach in pantry

and on the far left is the nook with built in secretary.

Looks like everyone is making good progress! jaymielo, you kitchen colors are so similar to mine. My walls will be almost the same shade of yellow, my cabinets are almost that color (a little different style though), and the floor is identical! Are you staining your floor or finishing it natural? Is it white oak? It looks so much like my floor.

Hi Cindy, This kitchen floors are QS red oak. The cabinets are QS white oak. The floors will be natural, with just 3 coats of poly. They did the treads on the stairs last weekend and I was actually surprised at how much it "warmed up" the wood. I'm so used to seeing them look almost white. I think it will be a good contrast against the cabinetry though.

The wall color is SW Humble Gold. I would never have picked it without the assistance of the Decorating forum. It turned out just as I was picturing it in my mind.

I bet you are ecstatic to pick up your cabinets. I know we were thrilled when ours finally arrived. Can't wait to see pictures! Jaymie

That's funny....we did red oak on the cabinets (not quartersawn though) and white oak on the floors! I love the way quartersawn oak looks. It is just SO different from plain sawn oak. Different, and VERY attractive!

Floor, cabinets,painting done. Tomorrow is granite templating day, with counter installation scheduled for a week from tomorrow. Then hopefully contractor will return to do plumbing connections and backsplash. Electrician also to but in lights and switches. With any luck I'll have pictures to post in about a week and a half!

Uh...well, my reno is now *scheduled*. (That's progress, right?)

We start October 6th. :-)

Pre-reno progress: Ordered the cabinets & countertop last week. Hope to get the bathroom plumbing supplies ordered over the next two weeks. (What?! There are rooms besides kitchens?!?) Looking at appliances, but think I have time to obsess about that for a while. Do have to get serious about tile and lighting.

We completely gutted our '80's kitchen at the beginning of July and as of this week we only have a few things left. I'm so excited we're almost done! We have granite to be installed, finalize hardware choices, and finish undercabinet lighting. Oh and the plumber needs to come and hook up my sink after the granite is installed. We already went over budget so I'm going to delay backplash tile until later in the year.

Still stalled. SIL has the palm sander so we can't move forward on much (Hubby is also going to be combining floor refinishing jobs). Hubby also needs a better guide / router table so he can finish our custom back splash. He is working on rebuilding the drawer boxes today so we'll see how that goes. 7+ months without a stove and counting...

Uh, can I rejoin this since progress has finally been made ? I believe the first progress thread I joined was at THANKSGIVING. Gah.

Jailbird Contractor is still in jail. He has a court date next week, then (if he gets out) he will be treated to the sight of a Flatcoat pursuing him relentlessly, baying for blood. Well, for the money he owes me, anyway. A little blood would be nice though :-)

New contractor does good work but seems to be rather spotty as far as attendance goes. He seems to have produced multiple children with multiple women, and has unscheduled last-minute childcare duties that have prevented him from turning up for the past three business days. I wouldn't mind so much if a) he told me about this ahead of time, and b) he would call me before 3pm to tell me he wasn't coming to work today, especially when I have taken a vacation day and wanted to discuss some things with him. I am happy that he takes his parenting duties responsibly, but I think I deserve a little more respect than that.

Argh. What is it about this business that seems to attract folks who can't be at least somewhat punctual ?

OK, rant over. Most that Contractor #2 has accomplished has been great. Running water in kitchen, yay ! electricity too ! Lights and gas, even !

Countertop is in, backsplash is up and grouted (and I finally decided I loved it ... it was a bit jarring when the grout was new, but I think it dried lighter and now blends better with the room).

Today I bought 200 ft of door trim, and the doors have all gone out to be hung with the pretty door hardware I bought LAST YEAR.

We are in the home stretch. Cabinets are installed, counters installed, backsplash installed, plumber is hooking up sink/dw and cooktop today. Painting & trim are done (inside). The big remaining things are electric & floor which should be done in the next few days to a week.
I can't say enough about how great my contractor has been - timely, responsive and here every day! The whole project will have taken about 2 months and I think that is pretty good considering the extent of our remodel (gut reno, moving windows, doors etc)

I have my cabinets installed now (Yay!), the room is painted and the lighting is in. The countertop is supposed to be installed this Thursday. If that happens, then I will also have a working sink and dishwasher. Thursday just can't get here soon enough!

Next the floors will be installed - Bruce Park Ave Makore. They are currently on order from an online company (I forget which one but I could look it up if anyone would like to know).

So far, so good. My goal is to be done before school starts. Fingers crossed. LOL

great backsplash flatcoat!!

...drooool.... Flatcoat! Love your backsplash! I have a thing for diamonds.

As for me, cork floor tiles arrived just minutes ago! They need to acclimate so I'll install this weekend. Cabs should be coming any day now. (And the only reason I'm not stressed about the fact that they're about a week late already is I wanted to get the floor down first. I will be freaking out about it as soon as the floor is installed. :)

Started late June, so it's been about a month exactly. Slider was replaced with french doors first, too facilitate the process. We've ripped out the old cabs, counters, ceiling, soffits, too many layers of floor to count. Electrical & plumbing is done. Drywall is in, mudded, and sanded. Priming the walls & ceiling and painting the ceiling is happening tomorrow. We may be able to actually hang a cabinet before we go on vacation.

We are getting close! Just little details to work on.My ktichen is NOTHING compared to everyone else's, but I love it just the same. It's my small, bright, happy place to cook,commune and be happy! And yes...it's messy :) The last one is pre-crown molding, but I don't have another picture yet that shows the cleanup sink.

Coming around the clubhouse turn at high speed! We started demo April 9, went to the studs and subfloor of our 1930 Spanish in a 350-square foot project. Our ancient house required extensive re-wiring, re-plumbing and re-framing--we removed a wall, opened a huge arch in a second wall, moved and enlarged 2 windows, and enlarged 3 doorways. Walls are finished, doors and windows in, crown molding up, sinks set, cabs and soapstone countertops in, floors done, big Liebherr frig in, now they are painting, painting, and still painting. We also replaced the central heating system while the walls were open. All that's left to do is some finish carpentry, install the range, DW and washer/dryer, final plumbing and electrical, and of course more painting. We are soooo ready to be done with paper plates!! Our GC has been great. So has everyone on this forum. Pics soon!

Well - we've just begun (even though we should be half way there) Old floors pulled up and ready for Ditra subfloor system, half the ceiling down, cabinets to be ordered later this week - they are in stock at Ikea, floor tiles should be in by Friday, put deposit on granite today. I'm still able to use my kitchen, but not after Saturday when we will remove the appliances and demo the cabinets (that part should be fun). For all the heartache we've gone thru over the loss of our deposit, I'm really starting to have fun with this.

I'm still feeding my family with an old stove, plywood counters and a fridge. Ugh. I called the woodworker/cabinet guy to inquire about his progress and he said he hasn't gotten to it yet. I nearly died. His work is incredible, his price is unbelievable and he only works when he wants to.

Well... shudda been finished by now- still can't get over my BIL phoning from the road (half hour away with wife and kiddies)- "Is your kitchen finished?"- that was exactly ONE YEAR AGO today!!!

When they came, we had no kitchen, so progress has been made! Granite (3rd try) was supposed to be removed and new installed yesterday- no surprise, fabricator says he had no idea (when I phoned to check on them Saturday). Girl who booked it was let go Wednesday, and the place has been in a shambles organization wise- my KG left for holidays Thursday, when I phoned back Monday (yesterday) girl on the desk thought they were installing my granite... had to fill her in...had an unsatisfactory conversation with the owner several phone calls later- bottom line- I have a functioning kitchen, and they are replacing all my granite at N/C to me, so I'm low on the priority. Once granite is resolved then, they'll start on finishing my cabinets- second carpenter they hired has gone AWOL. So, needless to say all those finishing touches like CM, light rails, peninsula panelling, etc, are still delayed, as they can't go up till the last two cabinets get delivered...
Last summer we had a stream of house guests- no kitchen- hey I told them it was camping with all the amenities!!!

I've haven't posted any pics of my kitchen yet so this is kind of exciting for me.
Besides the appliances - which are DH's choice (he is paying after all and does most of the cooking)- this is a pretty modest and budget friendly remodel.
Since we're not living there yet and it's a 6 hour drive and 3 states away, things have been a little slow going.
We were able to take the cabinet doors with us and paint them at our current home.
Our next trip is in 2 weeks so we hope to finish up a great deal at that time.

Still to be done - in no particular order:
*Backsplash
*Finish painting cabinet boxes - we kept the original cabinets and reworked some of them.
*Install cabinet hardware
*Hang cabinet doors - being retrofitted with concealed hinges for 3/8" overlay doors from Rockler
*Install diswasher
*Hook up icemaker
*Hook up sink - we had to leave after the granite was installed so we didn't have time
*Paint the window
*Build a wine rack/cabinet above the refrigerator
I'm sure there's more.

Please accept my apology for some of the crummy pics - I'm definitely not a photographer :-)

~ November 7, 2007 - Closing day - the PO's kitchen from the RE listing ~

~ July 21, 2007 - Waiting for the granite (old rugs protecting the floor) ~

~ July 21, 2007 - Later that day, after the granite is in ~

~ Sometime in January ~

~ After the Granite (no doors yet) ~

~ My design board ~

~ My inspiration kitchen - the cover of a Shenendoah Cabinets catalog ~

I'm putting the finishing touches in my kitchen this week. A few things may take longer as I'm waiting for lights and the refrigerator panel. We started renovating the kitchen, master bath and other parts of the house in February and we just moved in this weekend. Yea! Hopefully, I will have pictures to post by next week!

flatcoat,
LOVE,LOVE, LOVE your backsplash! Very different.

Everyone's progress looks fantastic!

I guess I'll take some pics tomorrow :) Finally, things are rolling along and somewhat quickly. I've given a drop dead date of Aug 15th for final inspections (We're NO WHERE near that) so everyone is freaked out...and actually showing up to work :) I think the fact that I now spend every free second over on the site helps. There's nothing like the sight of a homeowner with a limp wrist (I claim it as from writing too many checks, but really it was an injury after a ladder failure a couple of months ago..broken bones, missing pieces, blah blah...now I'm bionic) Any hoo the one armed owner trying to balance a jar of paint and paint the trim seems to be inspiring the folks to work :oP

Final tweeking on cabinets was fixed today and the new pieces will be in on Tuesday of next week and the next Tuesday as well. So hopefully we'll template granite in the baths in a couple of weeks. The artist is starting on the walls tomorrow, including the kitchen. The stainless counters were templated today and due in two weeks. The backsplash will be finished next week around the chickens (range bs) and the subways on the rest of the walls.

The plumber remains a mystery, promising to visit in the dead of the night, yet never showing. He may go by the wayside if he's not appeared by Friday.

Oh I have toilets (ok not in the kitchen, but still it's a big day) so please, drop by and pee in my house :oP

THe floors are still in limbo but we figure the cabinets will be set by next week (with all their trim) and the window seat started.

I am moving in September 1 or people will die.

Everyone's kitchens look so great. I especially love to see renovations. Take an older, dated kitchen like joanie did and turn it into something wonderful.

Igloochick....you are TOO funny! Isn't it amazing how excited we get about little steps...like toilets?? When DH and I built our first house we were around 22 years old. We moved in with MIL after our mobile home burned down and we built the house ourselves. Well, I told DH we were moving into our new home on July 1st, no matter what...and we did. There was no toilet that first day though....or sheetrock either for that matter, but anything was better than spending another day at MIL's house. I'll never forget our first winter in that house. There was no furnace yet and we heated with a kerosene heater and a wood stove made out of a 55 gallon barrel. It got so cold the water in the toilets froze. Gosh those were the good old days.....lol!!

Love hearing about everyone's progress. I am almost there. Still waiting the knobs and pulls, blind cabinet hardware stuff and my hood.

My Bosch hood is missing in action. Was supposed to be here last week. They called during the time it was supposed to arrive to let me know it wasn't (waited all day at home for it before they let me know--don't you love that?). Of course that was after they (or a computer) called to let me know (three times!) it would definately be in! Now it is still on backorder.

I could buy the hood elsewhere for several more hundreds of dollars but refuse to pay more than I did. Of course this was after Lowe's smashed my other hood. The one bright spot in it is that I went from stainless chimney to glass for the hood so I can see my beautiful granite backsplash. Of course, substantially more $ for the glass as opposed to the all stainless. Yup, my expensive gene is working overtime! So, it has meant a two month delay while I wait for it. I am hoping it will actually show up on August 9th and hopefully not during the big annual fig fest around here. We wait all year for our fig fest! I will be happy to not have ceiling insulation falling on my stove (not good when one is cooking).

I am still missing one light bulb for my under cab lights. Granite guy broke it when installing the granite. Speaking of granite, they should be templating for my fireplace next week. Am using the leftover granite from my kitchen to recover it. State they will try to be careful with my new flooring not to wreck that when they install the week after. So I am enjoying being almost dust free for another week. I swear I could thoroughly clean every day and that microfiber cleaning thing could still find new dust from the new drywall, granite, etc!

So, as of this date, I have new toilets, a solar-tube in the windowless WC (so one can see when one pees!), new kitchen, new roof (yes!), new flooring in kitchen, living and dining area, new fireplace surround, new tile in entry way and with any luck a tree removed from my front yard that is ruining my sprinklers and driveway with its roots. I think I will be in debt for the rest of my life but am loving my "new" house! Everything is so pretty! Can't wait to sit back and enjoy!

I really love this thread. It is so nice to track people's progress on a monthly basis.

Flatcoat, I am also a great admirer of you backsplash. You deserve it with the GC problems you've had.

igloochic, You crack me up. Good luck on that Aug 15th date. That is the date I gave my GC, but somehow, it has slipped! Unfortunately, that means the kids will be in school before we are in and I'll be driving 2 hours a day to get them there! Ugh.

kbmas0n, I love your kitchen. The cabinets are so pretty, espcially with the beadboard backsplash, calm paint color and pretty counters.

raehelen, Wow! You've had a long haul, but from what I can see, it is absolutely gorgeous. I love your light fixtures.

aipl, Ouch! I think I know that story. work beautiful, price incredible and NOT QUITE started yet. Have faith. It will be worth it.

JOanie B - Your kitchen looks great! Thanks for sharing your design board and your inspiration photo. Looks like you have it exactly as you want it. We just got our granite in yesterday and it looks great. Appliances should go in Friday. Cabinets have been installed for sometime now but we still need the backsplash, paint (no running water yet but plenty of electricity) and various odds and ends. We started planning in December but made a 360 on the cabinets so we didn't start demolition until mid June. My guess is that we'll be finished by Sept. 1 which isn't too bad IMHO.

Demolition started July 7. We're making steady progress each week. We reached our biggest milestone last Friday, when our load-bearing wall came down and I finally got a good sense of how much more open our "new" space will be.

BEFORE (looking into kitchen from dining room door):
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AFTER (same view):
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Before:

After:

igloo, looking forward to seeing some photo's.

Igloochic, you're a riot, but I have to ask: is your new bionic wrist hinged? Soft-close, maybe?

As to your inviting people over to pee in your new toilets - I totally relate. I'm already inviting people over to shower in my soon-to-be fabulous spa shower with fixed multifunction and hand-held showerheads! (So far I've got 4 takers. :-))

Well, I wish I could say we were just putting the finishing touches on, because that is certainly where I expected to be by now when we started demo in February. Far from it. We had planned to have a big party in August for my husband's 40th birthday, and to show off our new kitchen. Not so much.

But I do believe it will eventually be done, because we are no longer accepting days and days of inactivity and constant rescheduling.

Here's where we are: Our cabinets are in, but without doors. They are waiting until the end to put in the doors, to avoid damage. Our coffered ceiling is done. Our countertops are installed. Well, except for the bar height counter. Corbels were installed in the wrong place, so a whole new panel has to be made for the back of the bar, and installation has to wait for that. Par for the course. New windows are in. Most of the trim work is done. The new back porch is half-built, and has been for weeks while the guys builing it went on vacation. We have sinks with running water. And, this is HUGE -- they are almost done installing our floor. We have saltillo floors, and we had serious delays because tile that we picked in the winter, that was supposed to be in stock, was not. My KD did not check to see if it was in stock until days before the installer was coming.

We tried to find substitute tile in stock somewhere, which caused a couple week delay. When we couldn't find anything suitable and affordable, we decided to do without, but the tile guy had in the meantime taken another job, wouldn't be available for weeks. And nothing else apparently could be done until the floor was in. Upon hearing this, we threw a you-know-what fit, and told our GC that they had to find someone to do the tile work right away, we are so sick of delays. Miraculously, he found someone who started the next day, and it is almost done now.
So now that the floor is in, we can in theory put in the appliances.

So here is what is left: installing the appliances, installing all the lighting, and there is a lot of lighting, building the pantry shelves in the walk-in pantry, installing the built-in bookcases in the eating area, installing the floor in the butler's pantry, installing backsplash, finishing the back porch, installing tile, vanity, mirror, sink, toilet, etc, in the powder room, which is part of the project, installing pantry, and powder room doors, hooking up the radiant floor heating system to a new hot water heater, installing all the hardware on the cabinets, installing new basement door to the outside, and painting. Phew! There is still a LOT to be done.

I do think that it should be done by Thanksgiving. At least I hope so.

Our demo started five weeks ago. We took out the wall between our kitchen and dining room and gutted the kitchen. Everything's gone very smoothly--a few alterations to the original plan because of those pesky load-bearing walls and stubborn, won't budge pipes, but I've made peace with it.

Floors go in tomorrow (matching existing hardwood that's throughout the rest of the first floor); cabinets are arriving a week from this coming Monday.

At this moment, I'm in countertop quandry land. My vision was white marble on the perimeter and a dark wood island top. My cabinets are white. My GC and DH are very leary about my countertop picks--and I understand why. Right now I'm trying to decide if I'm going to fight for them or not. I'm going to check out stones on Friday...maybe that will offer some clarity!?!

I am still lurking here, getting some preliminary ideas before I post questions.

I have a 1930s house with a 30's to 70's mish-mosh kitchen. I am enjoying looking at the kitchens here but feel like I'm watching The Jetsons.

Well, after almost 2 months since ordering the backsplash they are finally here today installing it. My granite went in May 9th and I'm just now getting the BS...way too long of a wait. But, sh!t happens. Maybe next week I'll get a floor. You really have to PLAN FOR delays because they WILL happen.

Well, it's already August, and we are still living on the lower level. BUT this week, the hardwood floors in the upstairs master bedroom and office and the hallway were given their three coats of polyurethane, and once the baseboards are reinstalled and painted, we can take possession once more of those rooms. We are still waiting for the kitchen cabinets installation, and this is required before they will put the finish on the new hickory floors there, as well as the dining area and living room, all of which pretty much flow together.

I think we are looking at another three weeks until completion. This compressed living on the lower level of our house (with all the upstairs furniture, closet contents, office 'stuff', etc.) has been the pits, but once we can move into just a couple rooms, the situation will improve immensely.

We are done for the most part. Our floors have been installed and now we are just waiting for sanding & staining. We also need to install the fridge. The whole process will have taken a bit over 8 weeks so I don't have too many complaints. Will post photos when we are back from vacation in a week.

Ours is a new build and we just moved in on Tuesday, minus any hot water. Fortunately, the gas lines were hooked up on Friday and we now have hot water (big sigh of relief). Those cold showers were doing us in! LOL!

The kitchen boxes are almost unpacked. There are a few things that the kitchen guy needs to come back and finish - he ran out of crown moulding and needs to add it to one more cabinet, there are several missing pulls on order, the cooktop vent needs a few more fixes, and a few other things that I'm forgetting. He is due back next week sometime to finish everything up (fingers crossed).

Oh, and there is a granite backsplash missing under the window behind the sink that is supposed to go in on Thursday.

And we still don't have a backsplash in the beverage area above the ~5" granite backsplash...we are having trouble deciding what to put there.

But it's good to be home...

Patti

We're doing more than just the kitchen, also adding some bedrooms and bathrooms. We started mid-June, and the kitchen is basically in the same state it was after the first couple days - demo'ed down to the studs.

But, we are making good progress on the addition - it is almost completely framed (working on the roof). So once everything is framed in, roofed, siding, they'll start on the interior and we'll be back to kitchen progress!

As I write, the granite counters are being installed! Contractor says he'll be here tomorrow and Friday to finish - plumbing hookups, faucet, garbage disposal, backsplash, window blinds, baseboard moulding.

Well, it's the beginning of august and the cabinet carcasses are in place. The Cambria guy came out on monday and templated for the counters. Now we have to put all the drawers and doors in, lay the floors and install appliances.

Here is a link that might be useful: pics of the kitchen progress

Since I last posted about the delays on getting my granite redone, my Kitchen company has gone bankrupt- surprise- surprise! (NOT!) Anyhooow, still waiting to see if they can find and will give me my replacement granite pieces before all assets are seized. Picked up the window sills, and they look so pretty! (have them sitting in my kitchen). Have lined up a new fabricator to cut holes and install, and it actually won't be that bad $$$-wise to get old granite removed and new installed. So, if any of you have the time or inclination please add a little prayer to the granite gods for me- I think I deserve a break today... :>)