« The Pictorial Progress | Main | Woeful Plumbing »
October 2, 2006
Finally Some Kitchen Progress
Now things are starting to move! We are at 65% completed with our kitchen. We decided to lay a tile countertop which we found to be easier than expected. We found the tile at Lowes, a BR Mocha (I can?t remember what BR stood for). Anyway I almost messed up because I first decided on Sand colored grout. Well after laying the tile and seeing the dark shadows in the spaces, I decided it would probably look nicer with a darker colored grout. So we exchanged the grout for one called ?Mocha?. Which I have to say did exceedingly well. So the countertops are all laid with some small exceptions, like around the back of the sink. Also today Brian built the stove thingy which is the support for the stove vent. He built the frame, put up the plywood, the sheetrock and placed the hood all in one day! I was pretty proud of the pace he followed today. Tomorrow he will grout and lay the tile for the backsplash areas, including behind the stove. Also he is supposed to putty up the new wall and also putty up our molding in the living room so we can refresh the paint on it. Well that pretty much brings it up to speed for the kitchen. I'll post pictures below, and a new post will be for the work I got done on the utility room.
Here is our kitchen in its beginning of the remodel stage:
Here it is now, of course my walls aren?t that dark, just the way the photo came out. Oh and the sink is lifted up in this photo. We since laid it back down and its waiting for some caulking to go around it:
Here is the tile right after we laid and spaced it:
Here is the beginning of the new little wall:
And here it is with sheetrock and plywood. I even laid out a few tiles to see what it will look like:
Now I know we should build a little thing to go over the hood, just not sure if we will have the time. We have SO much to accomplish! But I am hoping we can.
That's all for now!
Comments (2)
Twilightmama:Oh, it looks great, Jessica! Tilework always scares me, lol, but you guys look like you're pros! I like the idea of having darker grout, too...hides stains better!
Looking forward to following your progress...You all are doing a great job!
Posted by Twilightmama | October 3, 2006 10:53 PM
Posted on October 3, 2006 22:53
Jessica:Hey Kim! Thanks for stopping in ~ and so quickly too! =)
We were intimidated by tile as well, that?s why we choose Formica in our early remodel work.
But we came to find it?s not that bad really, at least for counters. The trickiest part was getting to "know" the tile cutter so it wouldn?t split the tile wrong. =)
Thanks Kim for all the kind words! =))
Posted by Jessica | October 4, 2006 10:38 PM
Posted on October 4, 2006 22:38
