Demo Continues.....

It is interesting to watch the series of events when doing a remodel.  Some days it is obvious what took place, and others make you wonder.  I watch way too many of those Kitchen Crasher type shows and have a real false sense of what a project of this magnitude is really about. We have been lucky. There haven't been any major "surprises" when the walls came down, but there has been plenty of shifting of electrical, plumbing and water lines. In reality, there is no crew of guys who trip over each other to get everything done in three days.  There is just Jeff, with a little help from Lloyd, who works methodically to make sure everything is done the right way. Wow, do I appreciate that. I know I won't have a visit from Holmes on Homes to correct the work that wasn't done right.

Good news! The cabinets are being delivered next Monday. Some drywall is going up as I type this, and did I mention that I am getting a gas stove?  The line has been run and is ready to go.

Can you see that pipe coming up from the floor? It is my gas line!

If you look at the floor, it is down to the original felt and floor boards. Lloyd took up what was left of 4 floors. The current, the one before that, the one before that one and the original 1953 green with black vein linoleum, which, by the way coordinated with the black with grey vein linoleum counter top. I can still picture the Swingline can opener just to the left of the stove!

Progress is a wonderful thing.

Demo Has Started…………….

Well, we had a couple of false starts.  Demo was slated to begin on Monday, February 4^th but it didn’t happen.  Next it was really going to start on February 11^th. I was so sure of it that we called my favorite brother Terry (who is Lloyd’s brother from another mother) to come over and get a head start on the demo.  They made pretty quick work of tearing out most of the cabinets and the tile bar.

My two favorite guys after a morning of demo!

What they left was the sink, thank goodness, and a small part of the countertop. I was really excited for Monday when the work would begin. Well, Monday turned into next Monday, and then the next Monday, which turned into Tuesday, but the demo began.

I need to explain that our contractor is taking care of his father who had some serious health issues.  He needed to make sure his dad was stable before he could start work. I will not say that I wasn’t disappointed every day I came home to no progress, but I understand the importance of taking care of family. Lloyd used that time to remove most of the tile backsplash and I removed all the ugly wallpaper that needed to go on an unexpected snow day!

We are still eating very well because I have become really good with an electric frying pan and a hot plate. Master Chef has nothing on me, in fact that could be a really good idea for a reality show.  How to feed your family without a working kitchen! But I digress…

The day that the demo actually began, I came home to a tent of plastic sheeting enveloping my kitchen and I was grinning from ear to ear.

The demo has begun!!!!!