New Kitchen Part 3

We are beginning our 3rd week of chaos. Actually, semi-chaos. The gritty, dust-all-over-the-house, trip-over-extension-cords part is mostly over. There is still dust in odd corners and still an extension cord plugged into the freezer, but we are making progress.

We smoothed over the new wallboard with mud. Then we sanded it all down. The plastic sheeting kept the dust localized.
Then we textured all the new stuff. I finally
got the hang of it towards the end.
That was Monday, last week.


Tuesday - We took the rough edges off the texturing, primed it and painted the ceiling and the walls. We got finished about 1 am. FYI - the kitchen walls are NOT white. They are "moonlight white", a very, very, very, very light yellow.


We did find time to celebrate Dana's
birthday on Tuesday. For the first time ever, she had enough chocolate and pizza to last a lo-o-o-ng time. We were reduced to lighting one lone match and sticking it in her cake since the candles are buried in a box somewhere.







Wednesday - The cabinet guy came in and installed
cabinets. I came home from school that afternoon and the kitchen was no longer a great, big emptiness. Matt even got to help set the shelves. The cabinet guy's name is Rick. He spends his winters here, doing cabinet installations. He lives in Alaska the rest of the time. Has a 4500 sq ft custom-built log home, spent his early years working on the oil line and building homes in his off-hours, and never stops talking. A very nice gentleman, and very helpful as we make this transition to a new kitchen.








So now we have cabinets. Very beautiful cabinets. They are cleaned out and the shelves are in most of them. They have no handles yet, but we'll take care of that. And I can begin moving stuff back in. The only problem is . . . I don't know where to put things. The whole layout is different.


Monday, they installed the countertop. It all fits together, the paint, the cabinets, the countertop, and the floor tile.



We ordered the stove, microwave/vent, and the dishwasher last night and they will be delivered Friday. Then we get to assemble it all. Lots of details to take care of, but we're on the downhill side of events. Wow!