We found an old sink and cabinets on Craiglist - found the door at a recyled materials store. Catherine tiled the floor and this wall here. I ran the wiring to the switches and put in recessed lighting, and our friend Paul did the plumbing.
This is what the old floor looks like, after we stripped off the paint, sanded it and here's a couple coats of polyurethane. We believe it was used as the floor of a machine shop.
After we demolished the old kitchen, which wasn't much to speak of, other than a cool stove - The room looked like this.
I believe Jeffrey Dahmer summered here.
Anyway, now the room is really... poised to come together. We started in July, and it's now October. I don't think we'll be done before December.
Why does it take so long? One is that we wanted to put a radiant heated floor in our kitchen - and that was a lot of work. we cut the room in half, cut out part of the floor and placed radiant heating tubes and poured concrete. We managed to run tubes under part of the wood floor as well. That was quite hellish, crawling under the floorboards.
'I think I can, I think I can, I think I can' said the Little Trains--and they did get up over the hill and down into the valley.
ReplyDeleteKeep Chuggin' along !
Pappi
Wow, that really looks tough. Kitchens are indeed one of the hardest parts to remodel. MN construction managers, fortunately, were available when we decided to remodel our bathroom, so we skipped the plumbing and tiling.
ReplyDeleteBut I don't blame you, DIY is the most fun way to remodel. Minnesota is one the best cities to do DIY remodeling because it has all the resources you need, and the construction management service is excellent. Maybe next time we'll do it ourselves.