Here's a bit about where we are on the kitchen. We made all of our decisions and I picked out everything I wanted in a kitchen with no ideas on what the pricing was. When the pricing finally came back from Matt our builder ~ it was a little high (chuckle, chuckle no it was ah . . . way out of the budget.) So we had to make some modifications! I sacrificed a few things (the granite I REALLY wanted) we made a few adjustments and tweaks and picked out some new materials. That process took a bit. But all the decisions were made and I'm THRILLED with all our choices.
This week a lot of progress was made.
Ev tore out the old linoleum flooring to make way for our new tile:
Before he could tear it out we let the kids have a marker party on the floor:
Ev tore it out this past weekend 1/7 & 1/8
Then they came in this week Mon - Wed and redid the electrical. They put in the recessed lighting (one of the things I was praying would fit in the budget ~ and it DID!) and rewired & positioned all the switches and brought everything up to code. The inspector came on Wed and all was well!
My new switches are GFI (don't know what that means) and have cool lights on them :)
Recessed lighting and the ceiling all ripped out:
The whole kitchen is sealed off with plastic and then zippers at all the doors so we can zip it open when there's no construction and then they can zip it closed while they're working. We were getting sick of the plastic look so the kids and I took a whole afternoon to die cut snowflakes and decorate one of the sheets of plastic:
We continued on with the marker party and decorated another doorway :)
the A-1 asbestos guys chipped in when we weren't looking and left us a smiley!
With the open ceiling and no walls it got pretty cold in the house. They just came out today and put in insulation ~ it's much warmer now! I'll post those pics later.
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Wow, Tezie- Crazy. What a blessing it turned out to be. The rest of your house and everyone in it are fine and you get a really nice new kitchen. :)
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