Finally an update on my kitchen progress!
Here is the previous thread: http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/3426566/demolition-has-begun
So, we started almost exactly 4 weeks ago. There have been a few delays that have snowballed a bit so I'm not optimistic that we will finish by our Thanksgiving target date but we'll survive either way. We've been living with the fridge, microwave and dining table in the living room so I will be glad when we get to the point where we can move back in to the 500 sf that are closed off with a zip wall right now! Our contractor is so detail oriented and I swear he remembers every single thing I say to him. His subs have been on time, polite and have done nice work thus far.
Since my last update, all of the rough electrical and plumbing were completed, drywall was repaired and skim coated and the ceiling textured, DH and I primed and painted the entire space, and in the last 2 days flooring has been going in! It seems like more happened during that time but I'm blocking it out!
Below is the laundry/mud room floor (not grouted yet)
Floors installed and sanded. Sample stains put down for us to decide on tonight. You can see where the flooring transitions to the stone in the raised part of the living room. There will be a t-molding transition piece there. We would have loved to get the floors to exactly the same height but even when we went down to the subfloor there's still a small height difference. We had the same issue in our last house in reverse where the kitchen was a bit lower and no one ever tripped so I think it will be fine.
Looking the other way into the dining area. Again, the duct will be replaced with rigid for the hood. Walls are painted Benjamin Moore Silver Lake. Cabinets will go to the ceiling and that's the last wall I painted so I didn't want to bother edging up there
Here are the stains we are debating with the white perimeter cabinet sample and the BM Kendall Charcoal island paint sample. DH likes the top one. Everyone else I've asked likes the bottom, ugh. Would you all like to weigh in here?
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Comments (27)Oh, Becky. You actually make me chuckle. How could I have possibly forgotten you!! You should only know how much I treasured our conversations on vintage stoves and what to do about rescuing my kitchen layout when my Smoothtop stove -- the "grand old dame" --involuntarily retired mid-reno. LOL! Luckily, though, some reno disaster stories really do have good endings. And I've got one of those. Truth is, I totally adore my Aga!! She's everything I could have wanted in a modern day replacement for a vintage range: great period looks matched by contemporary pro style performance. As such, I'm very, very happy! Meanwhile, my beloved Smoothtop is sitting, disassembled in my basement. I didn't have the heart to trash her but I also haven't summoned the heart to try to sell her either. She's priceless (even if she needs total restoration at this point)! My hope is that one day, I'll coincidentally meet up with an antique stove lover in the area who will be more than pleased to adopt her as a major project. In the meantime, as she sits in my basement, she serves as a nostalgic reminder of her glory days when she used to hold court in the old kitchen. And, honestly, I do send her a loving wink each time I pass by her. Sigh. But getting back to you. . . these additional photos of your kitchen are even more striking than the first batch! Without a doubt the room comes off as warm, cozy and inviting. Even better, it looks downright authentic as a real family kitchen with loads of personality! No over-designed and/or puzzling design statements going on there. And I love it! (Love that yellow paint too -- it's similar to what I chose for my own kitchen walls.) Lastly, I just have to give you a special thumbs up on the DIY work. Most of us can put together a lovely kitchen design with enough money to buy things and rely on the sage advice of the GW community and/or hire experts to do so and to put it all together for us. But far fewer of us have the time, patience and competent DIY skills to actually pull off the kinds of kitchens we would want to live in, work in and show off to others. So, whenever that happens, my thinking is that the DIYers deserve an extra bow. In short, Becky, I'm thinking you should get ready for that extra bow because, from what I'm seeing, you and DH are deserving of big applause on this one!...See MoreKitchen in progress with PICS**finally!
Comments (18)Kat3kits....oh yes! Claustrophobic doesn't even begin to describe! We have only lived here since April, but not only did that layout not work for our daily cooking, it was an Entertainment nightmare. We had to have 2 dinner parties so I could prove to DH how bad it was! Truth be told, the cabs were 35year old solid oak (maybe ash?), Amish made, they looked brand new! Hardly looked dated at all! I am happy to report, even though I chose not to reuse them, they were all donated to others who will install them and reuse them!. The appliances were a nightmare, none worked right! So happy we spent the money and lightened up the cabs and changed the configuration. It feels like its the way the house was meant to be!...See MoreFinally getting to update my 1942 kitchen - WWYD?
Comments (32)Thank you, desertsteph, greenhaven and smalloldhouse for commenting! I will work on adding measurements this evening. I know those will be really helpful to understand size/scale. After reading through everyone's excellent advice and comparing Lavender's layout to our existing space and the current floorplan, we immediately decided to nix the pull-out pantry. Given the flow of our house we much prefer to keep the peninsula at the end of the current cabinet run (I know the plan I posted doesn't show the rest of the first floor for context, so that's my fault). I think in the end we are going to end up with a combination of the two. I totally get the recommendation to move range to the same side as sink and rounding edges of peninsula, that's something to consider for sure, with little ones and puppy underfoot. (Although now I'm thinking about the sharp edges of my Room & Board farmhouse table...). Here's the deal with the stairs. The basement and upstairs flights are stacked. So, you come in the side kitchen door and you either go down a flight of stairs to the basement, or up two stairs into the kitchen. You go up the stairs to the second level from the dining room. We have four doorways in the dining room (kitchen, porch, stairwell, and hall). Since our basement is not finished and we will be entering the house from the back porch/sunroom, traffic through the kitchen is going to decrease significantly...at least until kids are older and basement is finished. I'll be back later with measurements!...See MoreUpdate on dining room progress--finally :)
Comments (15)lavender, thank you, and thanks for the vote on the stair spindles. When I have a free minute I've been taping off where the spindles meet the treads, so after the ceiling trim is up, it's a go. marti, I think she was more than half in jest, but the room is painted, so it must have worked! shadygrove and shades, thank you. Do you all realized that you get to see my new stuff before almost anyone else? I just want to say that I really appreciate everyone's encouragement. I've been busy the last couple of days, routing and painting the new ceiling trim. I put up the filler on the top of the DR cabinet this morning, then my father wandered in with a bucket of cherry tomatoes. Lol, any idea how many cherry tomatoes one has to halve to fill a dehydrator? A bunch--but aren't these the cutest little things?!...See More
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoDH will love you all. Everyone on my FB mom's group has said the darker one, lol.
FWIW, this was the inspiration pic dh found for the floors and it has very, very similar finishes to our kitchen.
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