to be continued throughout the day/weekend.....
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Underlayment
and we're off! the first part of this process is to lay down new premium grade underlayment. so Jeremy started with a clean slate
and the install began
he's in the process now of nailing it all down, but here's the somewhat-finished underlayment.
no kidding, i could stop here, stain it & be fine if it weren't for a small detail called A BUTT LOAD OF CASH I FORKED OUT FOR THE FLOORING!
to be continued throughout the day/weekend.....
to be continued throughout the day/weekend.....
final prep
thank goodness for having Good Friday off. we needed the day to get all the todo items done before the floor install started today.
so nacho removed the old sink vent since it will be moving to the island
i patched some spots on the ceiling where the fans used to be. our ceiling is textured so i mixed good ole Pensacola beach sand (i have a 5 gallon bucket that i brought back some years ago) in with our dry wall primer paint. so i get to have a little bit of home in this house.
more importantly, we spent the evening striking a gridline on the floor so i could draw out the design for Jeremy for today.
so nacho removed the old sink vent since it will be moving to the island
My Kitchen...for now
i can't possibly move on without showing you the carnage that has become my kitchen for the past 3 weeks or more. as we've moved old cabinets out & into the garage, all their contents have to go somewhere. so we stick them........
in the laundry room
in the bathroom - which is super convenient if you'd like a latte while you drop a load!
in the living room - easy for getting to those snacks during a movie
there are some minor items in the garage & i'm using that as my litmus test for how much i really need most of the crap that was in the cabinets anyway. funny how something like this will teach you that out of the hundreds of things you have in a kitchen , you really only use like 5.
in the laundry room
Sunday, April 17, 2011
lots of catch up
where the hell have i been? oh yeah, let's see after the last post i had to head home to the Motherland because my 100-year old grand ma passed away, then i was sick the entire next week with some possum virus, and this week it's all been about catch up, no mustard, just ketchup! so here's what's happened since eons ago! oh, and to be fair most of these pics were taken mid-March but i'm always late posting so big whoop!
that Old Header between the living & dining room that used to look like this:
now looks like this:
it's funny cuz going up with the header actually makes the opening look wider. you can see we put a knee wall in to break up the space a little more for what will be the dining area. maybe it's the knee wall that makes it all look wider. i don't know, i'm just a girl & math is hard. and here's a pic of that dining corner:
the knee wall will also allow us to do something with that corner in the living room. before you couldn't really put a chair there because 1 leg would hang out over the steps - go back to the first pic & you'll see what i mean. I have to admit, it hurt to pull out the curved step that Nacho & I worked so hard to make, but it was worth the sacrifice. and speaking of stairs, here are the new ones the guys built:
we may be a little out there with this idea (okay, the whole kitchen cuz who starts their kitchen remodel off with a dog food drawer?), but we plan to make the area you see under the stairs, as well as that little pedestal thingy in the corner, into storage. I've seen some really cool configs where people have done this & the fronts of the stairs are just drawer fronts. yeah, crazy, but when you only have about 1,000 square feet of total living space, call me & tell me how creative you had to get for all your crap! there is not a square inch of this remodel that has not been considered for double duty where possible.
but it's not been all rainbows & unicorns, this adventure. no sir. with every remodel, some paint must be spilled. and with that said, i am sad to report that my beloved flooring is gone! gone! did you hear that? the sound of my spirit being broken! nacho started pulling that up a couple weeks ago. i don't even recall when, i have repressed it. as of today, all of it is gone. it is the single cruelest thing ever done to me. i don't have the strength to post that post-mortem photo. let's just remember her the way she was in happier times...
i'll miss you Wavey! and revenge will be mine!
that Old Header between the living & dining room that used to look like this:
now looks like this:
it's funny cuz going up with the header actually makes the opening look wider. you can see we put a knee wall in to break up the space a little more for what will be the dining area. maybe it's the knee wall that makes it all look wider. i don't know, i'm just a girl & math is hard. and here's a pic of that dining corner:
the knee wall will also allow us to do something with that corner in the living room. before you couldn't really put a chair there because 1 leg would hang out over the steps - go back to the first pic & you'll see what i mean. I have to admit, it hurt to pull out the curved step that Nacho & I worked so hard to make, but it was worth the sacrifice. and speaking of stairs, here are the new ones the guys built:
we may be a little out there with this idea (okay, the whole kitchen cuz who starts their kitchen remodel off with a dog food drawer?), but we plan to make the area you see under the stairs, as well as that little pedestal thingy in the corner, into storage. I've seen some really cool configs where people have done this & the fronts of the stairs are just drawer fronts. yeah, crazy, but when you only have about 1,000 square feet of total living space, call me & tell me how creative you had to get for all your crap! there is not a square inch of this remodel that has not been considered for double duty where possible.
but it's not been all rainbows & unicorns, this adventure. no sir. with every remodel, some paint must be spilled. and with that said, i am sad to report that my beloved flooring is gone! gone! did you hear that? the sound of my spirit being broken! nacho started pulling that up a couple weeks ago. i don't even recall when, i have repressed it. as of today, all of it is gone. it is the single cruelest thing ever done to me. i don't have the strength to post that post-mortem photo. let's just remember her the way she was in happier times...
i'll miss you Wavey! and revenge will be mine!
Monday, March 28, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
infatuation
i have found it & i can't stop thinking about it! who knew i could become obsessed with freakin faucet? but this thing is beautiful!
it's made by Jaclo & honestly i wish we'd never met. it's all i can think of now! one little hitch...it's super expensive. i cannot possibly justify purchasing this thing. i cannot even print the price of it. let's just say, it's about half of what my cabinets cost. shameful! i know! but i must to have! but it's still less than what SOMEBODY paid for a certain mountain bike, kiteboard, snowboard.......
it's made by Jaclo & honestly i wish we'd never met. it's all i can think of now! one little hitch...it's super expensive. i cannot possibly justify purchasing this thing. i cannot even print the price of it. let's just say, it's about half of what my cabinets cost. shameful! i know! but i must to have! but it's still less than what SOMEBODY paid for a certain mountain bike, kiteboard, snowboard.......
progression
there's really not that much to report. since we're waiting on the flooring, we can only do so much. we did pick up the cabinets from IKEA just over a week ago. so they've been sitting in my drive way for now. i like to call it Kitchen In A Can! my sister can appreciate that!
never let it be said that i'd hold up progress cuz i helped load this even with the monkey pox i was carrying that day!
nacho is trying to do anything at all at this point, so he started exposing the header between the dining room & living room this weekend.
Tucker will be glad to know, that header is coming out & going up! so we're raising that whole opening up to be flush with the ceiling like it should have been done to begin with. it's really in prep for a bigger change: the living room floor will come out to be even with the dividing wall. again, like it should have been done to begin with. and part of that opening (on the right in this photo) will be taken up by the banquet seating - you'll have to check my previous post & Sketch-Up drawing to see what i mean. so we're really excited about that.
other than that, the guys came & installed the drywall in the window area last week. what a mess! i don't mean the construction guys, i mean nacho's attempt to clean up their drywall dust! ugh!
never let it be said that i'd hold up progress cuz i helped load this even with the monkey pox i was carrying that day!
nacho is trying to do anything at all at this point, so he started exposing the header between the dining room & living room this weekend.
Tucker will be glad to know, that header is coming out & going up! so we're raising that whole opening up to be flush with the ceiling like it should have been done to begin with. it's really in prep for a bigger change: the living room floor will come out to be even with the dividing wall. again, like it should have been done to begin with. and part of that opening (on the right in this photo) will be taken up by the banquet seating - you'll have to check my previous post & Sketch-Up drawing to see what i mean. so we're really excited about that.
other than that, the guys came & installed the drywall in the window area last week. what a mess! i don't mean the construction guys, i mean nacho's attempt to clean up their drywall dust! ugh!
i'm floored
10 years later & several Sketch-Up drawings & this is what we have to show for it! yes, the flooring design is finally finished. i'm sure between our own changes & anything the flooring guy comes up with, we'll see something a little different before all is said & done, but for now it stands at this.
what that means for our timeline? i have no idea. i plan to check in with my flooring guy tomorrow or Wed to see where we're at & get an estimate on installation. i do know they are trying to find someone that can install it given the complicated curves i've put in. i've waited 10 years, i can wait a little longer. not sure if nacho & terry can cuz at this point, everything stops until this goes down.
what that means for our timeline? i have no idea. i plan to check in with my flooring guy tomorrow or Wed to see where we're at & get an estimate on installation. i do know they are trying to find someone that can install it given the complicated curves i've put in. i've waited 10 years, i can wait a little longer. not sure if nacho & terry can cuz at this point, everything stops until this goes down.
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