The remodel of the kitchen is finally and visibly underway. We really started several weeks ago with planning and design with Kim Annable, and Jeff Wooster has been building our cabinets in his workshop. Kim also scraped all the old nasty finish off the pantry; with a new, flat finish, the beautiful cherry wood is really going to glow. And we picked out new Thermador appliances several weeks ago from Home Appliance: gas cooktop, electric convection oven, microwave, and warming drawer.
This is how the kitchen looked up to yesterday evening. Kind of sad that our "before" pictures were our "after" pictures less than a year ago. We didn't think we'd need to remodel so soon...this picture of Sunny and me was taken just last January and I can see I have my construction clothes on.
But yesterday we emptied all of the cabinets and today Brian and Christopher began demolition. It's a big mess and has entailed removing the dishwasher, range, and microwave, so no more cooking for awhile.
Demolition will continue for another couple of days, then the new cabinets and cabinet doors will be installed on Thursday. On Friday we should be able to get Brian from Solid Source to come out and template our granite countertops. I think the new appliances will be installed on the 12th but we should be able to use the old ones until then once demolition is done.
Choosing the granite was a process in and of itself. We were sent to Mont Granite to choose from I don't know how many colors of granite; I had no idea there was such an amazing diversity. We finally narrowed it down to four then made our final decision on Saturday. This is what we chose:
It's called "Fire Bordeaux" - is it gorgeous or what? I'd like to take a piece of whatever's left over and put it on a wall somewhere.
This is how the kitchen looked up to yesterday evening. Kind of sad that our "before" pictures were our "after" pictures less than a year ago. We didn't think we'd need to remodel so soon...this picture of Sunny and me was taken just last January and I can see I have my construction clothes on.
But yesterday we emptied all of the cabinets and today Brian and Christopher began demolition. It's a big mess and has entailed removing the dishwasher, range, and microwave, so no more cooking for awhile.
Choosing the granite was a process in and of itself. We were sent to Mont Granite to choose from I don't know how many colors of granite; I had no idea there was such an amazing diversity. We finally narrowed it down to four then made our final decision on Saturday. This is what we chose:
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