Kitchen - Demo Base Cabinets

Turns out there was no corner cabinet for the sink; a platfarm was hancked together with a facade for a door. The rest of the cabinets had a 4"x4" frame behind the cabinets!! Who is this carpenter??

Kitchen - The Floor, the floor.

The existing floor was tile, but had several cracked tiles, which was a bit bizarre... until I lifted a few. The tile had been installed directly on the original finished floor, without even sanding it. Without a doubt the worst tile job I've ever seen. The flip side is they came up ridiculously easy!

Had Jerry in to see about refininshing it. Wasn't expecting it to cost so much, almost twice what I expected, and that's him doing me a really good deal. Part of the quote included repairing the floor where the downdraft was cut for the island range, and the gaps where the larger wall opening is.

I got a box of unfinished red oak and patch the holes myself. There was also a big hole under one of the cabinets.

Kitchen - Install Lighting

The existing lighting like everything else was a mess. Installed six new lights. The old lights were split on two switches, combined all the recessed onto one switch, and will use the second switch for the island lighting. The recessed lights are pretty easy to install once you figure the locations.

Kitchen - demo ceiling and walls.

04/02
Got Cathal in for a few hours to help me demo the ceiling. There was a new ceiling over an old ceiling, but they had run lats for the new ceiling as well as the old, so taking both out increased the head room quite a bit.

Also cut the dining entry out to be much bigger.

It's amazing the amount of material that was removed. Hugh junk pile in the garden now.

The Kitchen Plan

The Kitchen is probably not as challenging a project as the bathroom, but it's a bigger inconvenience and it's definetly big.

Tasks:
Demo ceiling
Demo island
Demo dining wall
Remove upper cabinets
Install recessed lighting
Lift tiles
Remove base cabinets
Remove window
Install glass blocks
Run new electrical
Run new plumbing
Move gas line
Repair floor hardwood
Refinish floors/install tiles
Install walls and ceiling
Install crown moulding
Install new cabinets
Install countertop
Install sink
Build Island
Have a beer

Hallways done

I finally got the hallways done. Brought Giovani into do the ceilings and he ended up doing all the walls too. Came up pretty good, not perfect but a huge improvement.
I gave up on the idea of restoring the original finish on the baseboard had been replaced with pine, so would have to deal with matching stains, etc. I decided to paint it a cream semi-gloss.

The front door trim had been butchered to accomodate a surface lock, so I had extensive repair to do on that.

Installed a new dead bolt on front door.

Installed a french door from hallway to kitchen. Big difference in the heating!

Th trim job on the top window in the stairwell was a crap job so decided to redo and try and match the original trim. The problem was I couldn't use full width trim as the window was too close to a wall. I didn't want to slice the trim, so decide to mill a thinner version of the original using poplar. Came up pretty good!

Last but not least, cut a new hole into the attic, and trim out.

And we're done.