Remodel Week One

After months and months of planning, meeting with contractors, gathering information and too many decisions to remember the day finally came for our kitchen demolition!  We waited WAY too long to pack up the kitchen and let me tell you, packing up 10 years of junk drawers and cabinets was no easy task.  Here's a recap of our week.

Sunday night ~ still trying to empty out the cabinets and decide what to do with the junk

Monday morning ~ before school I had Preston sit on the sink one last time. 

I have to tell you that it was a tiny bit sad knowing that the place we bathed both of our babies was getting ready to hit the dumpster.  *I'm not sure I could ever fully move out of this house!*

By the time I got home from class all of the cabinets had been ripped out already!

A "small" uncalculated problem

Monday afternoon, the contractor showed me this.  The previous homeowners decided they needed to redo their kitchen vinyl floors; you can see why!  Only they took the lazy way out and just put the hardwoods on top of the vinyl. So this meant we ended up needing to rip out all of the flooring and redo it with ALL new hardwoods. ;(

Tuesday morning with everything gone!

Tuesday the plumber came and moved all of the pipes.  Wednesday the electrician was here ALL day redoing the lighting and moving the outlets.  Thursday the hardwoods were laid.  The contractor finished up patching the ceiling and walls to get ready for the mud crew.

My nice new hardwoods

Today the mud crew has been here all day long.  They finally finished and we are ready for the cabinets to arrive tomorrow morning at 9am. :)

So we've survived the mess and inconvenience.  Dave commented once this week that he's not sure we would have done it if we'd known what it was going to be like living out of the office and dining room.  BUT, he has done it and made it work.  We have certainly been a team this week.  I'll try to share some pictures of how we are working the system: where we're eating, prepping meals, etc.  For the record we've only eaten out once and that was because I had a mystery shop.  It's been an adventure for sure . . . one I'll be glad to be done with hopefully sooner rather than later!