Kitchen

2014 has been the Year of the Kitchen: constantly in the background of everything else we had going on with work, travel and school, was our kitchen remodel.   We picked out the cabinets in January; received them in February; and finished the last of the install in September.  In the intervening months our formal living room/William's play room was stacked with cabinets in boxes and the kitchen had a combination of old, missing, and new cabinets.  It wasn't as disruptive as it sounds, since a lot of the early work was behind the walls for insulation and lighting, etc, and we were only without a sink and dishwasher for a few weeks waiting for our countertops.  This was thanks to John installing all of the top cabinets, then the bottom cabinets not attached to the dishwasher/sink, and finally the sink section the last week.  We left the footpoint the same, so didn't have much except the sink/garbage disposal to reroute.   New lights, paint, cabinets, countertops, sink, and microwave were all added.  The other appliances had already been replaced by us since we moved in five years ago.  On our 2015 agenda will be new flooring to replace the white tile and probably a backsplash. 

Post-remodel:

 

Pre-remodel: 

The construction:

 We unrecovered two layers of vinyl under the tile that had to be dismantled to get to the subfloor.  The new cabinets are installed on top of a new layer of wood flooring in anticipation of wood floors being installed in 2015 throughout the kitchen.

Wallpaper and yellow paint were behind the cabinets.

We had to start in the corner to make sure the cabinets were level in each direction.  The new wall color is called Patience.  Oh, the irony!

We had 19 boxes total:  18 with cabinets and one large trim piece for the island.