It has been a hell of a couple of weeks as far as our kitchen renovation goes, and I figured it is time for an update, even if it is not a very exciting one! When I last posted about it, we had ripped out all of the brick–taking a good portion of our […]

DING DONG, THE BRICK IS GONE. Can I get a hallelujah??

After all of the demo prep work we did throughout the week, the actual demo took just a couple of hours. My brother and sister-in-law rolled up at our house shortly after 9:00 a.m. yesterday morning. Marie took Nora for a little one-on-one […]

This week, we’ve been working on preparing the kitchen for demo. We’ve tackled it in small chunks, doing an hour or two of work every night.
It started with emptying cabinets, then removing doors and hardware (in preparation for painting the cabinets, of course).
And then it escalated into removing the upper cabinets, […]

It is here, folks: It’s KITCHEN DEMO WEEK.

To see what the kitchen looked like when we moved in, see this post. And this is what it looked like earlier this week, when we started (sorta) tearing things up:
So, in other words–not that different. But like I mentioned in my original […]

A few weeks ago, I let the cat out of the bag about our ugly kitchen. This week, we’re preparing to rid ourselves of the ugly, once and for all. We’re preparing to demo. We knew we would be hosting my in-laws at our house the first weekend of February, and had plans to […]