Our Kitchen as it looks tonight

Here are very current pics of our kitchen...as I took them just a minute ago. The latest projects we have done are as follows...Becks cut remaining tile from the floor project to use as our back splash, he also has cut and sealed the wood for our baseboards (they still need to be nailed, but we need a finishing nail gun) and I took off the sheet of stainless steel from above the stove and after patching the wall it is now painted the brown that the rest of the room is. Ah, almost done...for now. Upper cabinets are down the road as well as new appliances. But here are the pics.

Kitchen Remodel Continued Again...

Before laying the wonder board we removed the tile back splash from under the window.


Then the wonder board.


Notice no stove/oven at this point and the refrigerator was in our dining room. So we were cooking things in our toaster oven for a couple of weeks. You really have to start getting creative with meals.

Becks put down plywood where the cabinets would go and then began the process of cutting and laying the slate tiles. Along with grouting. Everything from the wonder board to the tiles were graphed out well before any cutting/placing took place.





Finally new cabinets were installed by Becks and a new sink. And beautiful dark gray Silestone counter tops.

Kitchen Remodel Continued

So the lower cabinets were on their way out on the last post. Here are some pictures from the demolition.





It was interesting to see how these cabinets that were hand constructed were in fact constructed. This was actually a 'part' of the cabinet!

More demolition...



Yes, we were without a sink at this point. And I was washing dishes in our small bathroom sink for the next couple weeks ;o)

Flooring all the way down to the floor boards. Wow!


Next came laying down the wonder board, but that will have to be continued on another post.

Kitchen Project

Well it has been awhile since we did much to our kitchen, but I still haven't posted pictures of what it looked like once we got the new lower cabinets and floor in. So to catch you all up on where we came from to where we are now with this room.

When we moved in...

Then I took out the harvest gold laminate back splash (which was concealed by wallpaper) and painted the walls (after puttying and smoothing), and also painted the cabinets a dark blue/gray to offset the harvest gold counters.



Next came the floors. We were hoping to find hardwood floor under the off white laminate tile, but no such luck. It was laminate roll flooring straight from the '70s on top of plywood.



After getting to a certain point, Becks realized that he wasn't going to be able to properly finish the floor unless the bottom cabinets came out. But that is for another post.

Demolition

Becks has successfully demolished our den. Soon he will be working on rebuilding the walls and also shelves for in the laundry room and for in the den. It is quite the project and has been going on for some time now. It is a good thing that we are able to live with not much space. Here is a picture of what it looked like when we bought the house...




Well, now looking over the pictures I have... I don't know if I have any from after Becks took down the wood paneling. Well it doesn't really much matter now as all the drywall is gone. Here are some recent pictures...




So as you can see a lot has been removed. Including the wall between the den and the laundry (where all of our shelves were). So now all of our stuff is placed around the room and on the stand alone shelving unit we have. Quite a mess. But hopefully soon we will be able to post pictures of more progress as the walls start to go up. The carpet will come up as well as we are looking to eventually tile this room.