Temporary kitchen idea?
Several years ago, there was a flurry of questions about how to set up a temporary kitchen in a garage, etc. while remodeling a house in which one was living. I'm just wondering if anyone ever tried one of these pre-fab kitchens. This is from A.J. Madison, but I'd imagine several other sources are available.
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9 years ago
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Need ideas for easiest temporary kitchen floor
Comments (5)Here was my experience in my old cottage at MoccasinLanding. I got a sheet vinyl and laid it over the existing asphalt 9" squares original to the house. Around the rim, I had the quarter round put down. It worked VERY well, even with 2 dogs 2 cats and 16 parrots. Parrots make a lot of messes, and it was very easy to clean the vinyl sheet. When I sold the house about 2 years later, the same sheet vinyl was down, and the new owners took out everything afterward, but it still looked shiny, even with all the constant cleaning. The product was cheap, easy to put down, cleaned like a dream, and lasted as long as I needed it to. Now in this house we are doing the same sort of thing you are doing. We had the worst looking worn out damaged sheet vinyl you ever saw on the kitchen floor. The back porch also needed to have some flooring installed since we were planning to use it as it existed for a couple of years until we could unify the two spaces with a remodel. So I made a choice of 16" square sticky back vinyl tiles from Lowes (a mottled terra cotta color) and it is NOT a shinyy surface. DH installed it all himself, and it is quite nice and wears well. We now have only two dogs and two parrots, no cats, and the wear and tear is not as significant. But the product has been down about a year and looks as new as when we installed it. When the time comes we will remove all the layers of asphalt tile and vinyl tile down to the subfloor and lay new wood foundation for the porcelain tile we have already picked out. BTW, the sticky back tile has not come loose, and it is easy to clean. No shine on this product. And this picture shows how he repaired the rotted floor after we removed the old gas waterheater, and then finished laying the sticky back vinyl on the back porch....See MoreCreative "temporary" flooring idea???
Comments (13)I am also renovating while living in a very old house. I am also doing it with not one but 2 toddlers. I would say that while living with sub floor or cement is fine for adults, it is not so great for toddlers. I do have sub floor right now in my kitchen and have for about 3 months (floor is going in this month). My kids are not allowed in that room right now because there are splinters that will come up randomly if you walk in socks also it gets dirty and stays dirty you can't really mop it (and we know how much kids spill stuff). And if you have concrete is just plain hard on little knees and poor little heads if they fall. Subflooring is a good solution if you are living with it for short periods while completeing a room and moving on to the next. Our kids are used to a room being off limits for a while then being open again, gates go up and come down around here often, but as a long term solution I would look at a discount store for click laminate if you don't want a cheap carpet. I did a large room in our last rental place for under $100 in laminate we found at Ollies. Even if you don't install all the way to the walls it will give your child something to play on and something for his/her feet to run on. JMO though....See MoreCan you help with temporary kitchen floor ideas?
Comments (5)I had the same situation in my kitchen and what we did was get the absolutely cheapest wood-look laminate I could find at the time--I think it was about $1/SF. The click, floating kind so no glue or permanent adhesives needed. I figured since it would only be for a year or two and it was so cheap I didn't care that it would quickly look battered, being so cheap and all. Surprise! That el cheapo floor has held up amazingly well. We drip water on it, drop stuff, have a couple of cats, four adult size folks tromping through and it still looks great. I seriously advise considering laminate. The stuff today seems a lot sturdier than it used to be. After I did mine I discovered IKEA and they have even cheaper wood-look laminate. It really would bear consideration, especially for a short term solution. We're about to take ours up now that I'm (finally) remodeling my kitchen. But it still looks fine and could easily be left on for ???. Good luck. Ann...See Moretemporary kitchen ideas
Comments (2)I think you're right, it probably doesn't need a box. In my case, I plan on keeping it in the basement as a second oven (my small kitchen won't accommodate a double oven, so this seemed like a bargain solution!), so I wanted to get something....See More
oldbat2be
9 years agolascatx
9 years ago
cookncarpenter
9 years agozeebee
9 years agoathomesewing
9 years agoHonestly, thatâÂÂs cute, however without some ingenious use for it afterwards, I believe it would be a waste of money.
It needs a 220 outlet for the little stove. Also some way to provide (hot) water and sewage for the sink? If those resources are available in the garage why not use the old stove and set up a real kitchen including diswasher?
Our kitchen has been torn out for a year, so at this point I feel like a âÂÂtemporary kitchenâ expert! LOL. I can say without reservation, the ONLY reason that we havenâÂÂt killed each other is that there IS a working dishwasher.
Cooking, or making something to eat is fairly easy with only a hot plate, a microwave, and even nicer if thereâÂÂs an espresso maker! Clean up happens whether there is cooking, having takeout, or just making coffee. Washing and sanitizing dishes by hand for any length of time in a bathroom, laundry room, or even that tiny sink in your photo -- is much, much tougher. Even with only two of us living here, amazingly we still run the dishwasher nearly every day.
For us to make a dishwasher possible, we did a temporary conversion of a TINY powder room. We removed the sink and itâÂÂs cabinets, storing away for reinstallation. We removed the toilet and sealed off the sewage drain (who knew that would be easy). The drain pipe/toilet flange sits proud of the floor so we built a plywood platform over the top. I bought a new stainless laundry tub because I wanted one anyway for my laundry room. We placed it into a cabinet carcass and installed the old kitchen faucet. We found a full-size portable dishwasher on CraigsList. Hubby screwed two of our old kitchen cabinets to the walls that hold our dishes and coffee makings. A couple more of the old cabinets were placed just around the corner which hold food and flatware. The old refrigerator, a 21 year-old GE Profile, is still serving.
It took us an afternoon to complete the whole thing. A real contractor could probably do it in an hour.
jellytoast
9 years agocrcollins1_gw
9 years agoWe have a biiig unfinished basement that had a nasty utility sink, so our contractor pulled out the utility sink, cut the counter with the sink from our demo'ed kitchen and installed it in the place of the utility sink. Stove and micro were from old kitchen, we also have fridge across the basement (logistical problems getting everything in one place).
So we have this "luxurious" faux kitchen, complete with washer and dryer (useful for extra counter space) and, on the other side of that plastic sheet, a toilet! I finally got creeped out enough at staring at the toilet while doing dishes that I put up the plastic. Fancy.
Hubby is a pretty strong extrovert and there is no way he can survive without having guests, so we've made a lot of pretty good food here, on the gas grill and the Komodo Joe outside. But unfortunately, all the dish washing has been by hand. Wish I could have gotten the old dishwasher included in this setup!
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