Adventure in Remodeling: chapter 2
As you know we are remodeling our house right now and have started by gutting the kitchen. You don't realize really how important a kitchen sink is until you have to live without it for a tad bit. However, before we started on the kitchen we carried out the fine art of peeling wallpaper off the walls. I don't mind telling you that, if I never see wallpaper again in my life, it would make me complete. Anyway I digress, after that fun experience I decided to scrape our popcorn ceilings off. This was quite a job but also very theraputic endeavor. Do you know that you can spray that stuff with a mixture of water and liquid softner and it just peels off like butter with a putty knife. After that was the fun part of picking out paint (thank goodness for Sherwin Williams) and priming and painting.
We bought new cabinets and called a contractor to install them. My husband got tired of waiting on the contractor after a few weeks and decided that we could do it ourselves, "really, how hard could it be" were the last words that came out of his mouth before he grabbed a hammer and started ripping old cabinets out of their stately place! Well, I'll tell you how hard it can be working with a perfectionist who wants the new cabinets to be, not only level, but exactly, perfectly, level! Anyway, three days later we have all of the upper cabinets in and most of the base cabinets down. We had to finish the rest the next day before the granite countertop people came in to measure and by the way they commended my husband on the great job of installing the, oh so level cabinets. It seems that is an important element in the world of granite countertops. They left an hour later with our new granite sink in tow and said it would probably be three to four weeks until they could come back and install said granite...ARGH!
While we are waiting for all of that, my husband decided that we would install undercabinet lighting and also thought that we should pick out tile for the kitchen floor.
That is where we are right now, still deciding on tile and waiting for the granite to come in...
To be continued.......
We bought new cabinets and called a contractor to install them. My husband got tired of waiting on the contractor after a few weeks and decided that we could do it ourselves, "really, how hard could it be" were the last words that came out of his mouth before he grabbed a hammer and started ripping old cabinets out of their stately place! Well, I'll tell you how hard it can be working with a perfectionist who wants the new cabinets to be, not only level, but exactly, perfectly, level! Anyway, three days later we have all of the upper cabinets in and most of the base cabinets down. We had to finish the rest the next day before the granite countertop people came in to measure and by the way they commended my husband on the great job of installing the, oh so level cabinets. It seems that is an important element in the world of granite countertops. They left an hour later with our new granite sink in tow and said it would probably be three to four weeks until they could come back and install said granite...ARGH!
While we are waiting for all of that, my husband decided that we would install undercabinet lighting and also thought that we should pick out tile for the kitchen floor.
That is where we are right now, still deciding on tile and waiting for the granite to come in...
To be continued.......
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