My Kitchen Renovation Finally Finished!! I put the final pictures (before and afters) at the top of the page for faster loading. Scroll down to see some of the various stages it went through. April 10, 2007 Finally my damn kitchen is done! Just in time for Christmas. I mean Easter. It turned out pretty much like what I had pictured all those many months ago Photo quality is iffy - best I could do. Before: After: Before: After: Before: After: Before: After: Before: After: Before: After: Before: (notice the pizaa box and newspaper - some things don't change. ) After: Before: After: More... The cabinets are handmade and all wood inside. Sept. 21 Some of you probably know I have been spending the past two years redecorating my house and trying to make it feel more like me and less countryish. Well most of it was just that, redecorating, pretty easy stuff. I'm pretty satisfied with the house now except for the kitchen. And to fix this is not just a redecorating job It's an old plain country kitchen with big ugly appliances meant to serve for a B&B. It's dark and gloomy and the fridge is so loud it sounds like there's a helicopter landing in the kitchen when the compressor kicks in. Anyway, the time has come and I've embarked on a pretty big remodeling job. I'm not doing it myself but I intend to help out and learn as much as I can. Windows and doors are getting moved etc so it's way beyond me. Some of you that visited wanted me to share pics of the progress so I thought I'd share it with the forum for anyone who likes this sort of thing. The first group of pics is basically how it looked on day one. Some of the drawers are gone and it's emptied so it looks barer than it actually was. Some of the pics are similar angles I just wanted to get as many as possible for the before, during and after effect. I managed to get all the kitchen shit crammed into the pantry. Sept. 22 Sept. 28 Not alot has changed other than I'm crabby with being hammered and nailed out of bed early every morning. My bedroom is right above the kitchen. I might have to relocate to the Empress Suite. After day four I was ready to have them just put it back the way it was and be done with it. They have started rebuilding the inside walls and ceiling. The major work on the outside wall and electricity starts on Tuesday. Square nails date this wood back to the turn of the nineteenth centrury the builder guy said. Oct. 4 Some big advances this week. Still the boring stuff so bear with me. The hydro has been moved outside so work on the outside wall has begun. By that I mean the main hydro wires for all the house happened to be anchored exactly where I wanted my doors to go so they had to be moved. They had to punch a hole in my bedroom wall to re-anchor the hydro wires. I was not impressed by that. I just glared at them then rolled over and went back to sleep. New windows and patio doors should be going in in the next few days. As I understand the plan, inside hydro and plumbing goes in next and then the messy drywalling part. I thought I'd miss the fridge and stove the most (actually the fridge is still there, I can't get rid of it. Ah well, my beers are nice and cold. ) but I actually miss the water and sinks the most. I have dirty dishes all over the place. Washing dirty dishes where I wash my face really grosses me out. I think I'll start using paper plates. Oct. 9 Let there be light. Oct. 13 Some of the drywall is up and everything is wired. Next week the outside wall gets insulated and drywalled, and the patio doors go in. Why does this seem to be taking forever. A Molson's accident waiting to happen. Oct. 16 - Oct. 22 I haven't posted much of what has being going on the past week, it's been a real yawner actually. Here's some pics through some recent steps... Insulation was blown into the walls, what a difference it already makes. They did all the basement walls as well and anywhere they could get to basically. Basement insulation and Sebati's marker. next came the part I had been dreading the drywalling and sanding. It wasn't too bad after all. Everything in the house had a fine coat of dust though. The ceiling is on the floor. I think they have that wrong. New door into the living room.... Walls were primed on Friday. The patio doors are really late and still won't arrive for another week and a half. Good thing they're not holding anything else up in a major way. Should be more interesting next week as the ceiling is going up and the floor is going down Walls will be painted final color too. Oct. 26 Sorry no naked carpenters The ceiling is up, not painted yet though. Floor next. Nov 2 The patio doors are in, man does that ever change the room radically. Floors start tomorrow. The cabinet bases are being built in a shop and are almost done. I feel a little panicky as this just has to be done before my Christmas do. Nov 12 The windows and doors are all framed in, the ceiling is top coated and the walls will be final coated tomorrow. It's just primer in this group of pics, the color is gonna be a deep mustardy (well you'll see soon enough ) I like the way the original wood for is used for the window and door frames, what Donny didn't have from salvage he duplicated. Keeps the room matching the rest of the house still. The schedule has changed a bit and next are the cabinets. They need to be placed ASAP so the counter top guys can come in and make measurements. The floor will be done almost last now. Seriously seems to be behind schedule to me but Donny swears it'll all be good to go for Christmas dinner. Probably 11:30 Christmas eve Actually he keeps getting distracted by little odds and ends he finds wrong with the house so I guess that's a good thing, he's very thorough. Dec 10 So it's official the kitchen won't be ready for my big Christmas dinner. I'm OK with it at this point, I dumped it all off on family and then informed them I would unfotunately not be able to make it this year. The cabinets are built but the floor is going in first. The thing that is holding it all up is the counter top. It won't be ready until January. This room is getting the same floor.