We’re one month into our kitchen renovation.

On the one hand, I can’t believe how far we’ve come in just a few short weeks. On the other hand, I look at how far we still have to go, and can’t believe we’re already a month into it. I originally had the idea that […]

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, […]