Ugh! So ready for this phase of the remodel to be over! The house is permanently covered in dust and since we are still removing parts of the kitchen you don’t “see” a lot of progress. Most of the things we are doing are still behind the scenes so it is harder to keep a positive attitude when you don’t see a lot of change happening.  The thing about old houses is that you never know what you are going to find.  We ran into two huge messes- first, bass-ackwards plumbing that I showed you guys in my last post.  Now, we are contending with 110 year old electrical wiring…that has been “fixed” several times. It sucks when someone tries to fix this type of issue with no real electrical wiring competence  Besides that, we are adding several lights inside of cabinets and also under cabinet lighting so we are having to run lots of new wire anyways.  It is very time consuming to say the least.

We do have one huge change to document, however, and that is the installation of several can lights. I cannot stress the difference this has made already and they are not even completely installed yet! WATT a difference (see what I did there?!) 🙂

We also had to finally remove the cabinets from the walls in order to tear out the plaster and access the electrical components. Trying to fit the entire contents of your kitchen onto your dining room table is not fun! It hard to find anything to eat because I can never find a pot to cook in!

My typical look on Sunday!  #selfieforthewin

Goodbye laminate floor!

After many hours of work and several trips to the dumpster, we have finally gotten down to the studs.  I think I must have forgotten to take a picture but there was hardly any insulation at all in these walls. No wonder the kitchen was always so cold!

If you look closely in the upper middle of the above photo you will see the remnants of the original back door frame.  The frame was pretty tall- we think there was probably a door with a transom window. How cool would that look now?! It’s a shame that the door is long gone 😦  You will also see that the window on the left was originally much larger and a very different shape than what you see here.   Our plan is to remove the window on the left and replace it with a wood window and corresponding trim that better suits the look of this house.  We will also be removing the 2nd window in order to install a back door directly off of the kitchen.

We also rerouted the gas lines and changed the placement of the stove.  In our new design plan the stove will be centrally located on the south wall of the kitchen.

Until next time!

-L.