Kitchen renovations continued

When you last saw our kitchen the floors had been redone.  We didn't have the Fabulous 400 stove anymore, and our fridge was in the living room.

All of that is still the case - and so much more!  

Here is Todd working on our breakfast nook.  We decided to take the wood floors out of here because they were damaged in places, and because there was a weird section of board that ran across the floor boards creating a cut out line that couldn't have been fixed.  So, we are instead going to lay brick veneer in this part of the kitchen.  We think it will look really cool...!

This is where I've been cooking.  We've cooked a lot on the grill and also this Coleman camp stove of Todd's! Thank heavens we have it...

We had to take all of our cabinets down so they could be rearranged to accommodate the new sizes of appliances we bought last Saturday.  The Fabulous 400 was a 40 inch stove and we did not want to drop the money on replacing it at that size.  So, we got a smaller stove.  But we also got a larger fridge. Todd will still have to build in a bit more cabinet space, but it will be an easier job than replacing several cabinet faces like we were afraid was going to happen...

Down came the old cracked plaster walls!  They were in poor condition so Todd and his friend Mike worked to take down the plaster and replace it with drywall.  The guys also ran a water line for the fridge (since our old one didn't have an ice maker), and a gas line for the stove (our old one was electric)...

We also decided to take down the soffit above the cabinets to let us move them up a bit, and to also give us more storage space above...

Todd and Mike removing the crappy dishwasher that didn't wash to make way for our new awesome one...

Mike is a master electrician and he's done a lot of work fixing the ridiculous electrical we have...

Todd chipping away at the old chimney to expose the brick.  I worked at it too (a little) - it's a bugger!

Ta da!  The fully exposed chimney!  In this picture it still needs smoothed down and a wet rag taken to it...

Drywall up!  And Mike taping and mudding.  Todd is taking a wire brush to the chimney to get all the last bits of plaster off...

Looking the other direction toward the breakfast nook...

I had washed several dishes which never got moved from the room before the guys started sanding the drywall.  Grrrrr...

Yesterday, a blessed, blessed day - our new appliances arrived!  Lulu is overseeing the job...

Our new fridge is the stainless one on the right and our stove is on the left in front of that black fridge...

Our appliances are inside...but they are all in our living room.

I think tomorrow is our magic day to get them all hooked up!