Tile Trouble!

Nate and Steve were at it early this morning! It is tile day...or is it? The tile we have is beautiful and the pattern is great but the quantity is not what we ordered! About a third of the way through, Nate noticed the difference in the number of tiles per case...looks like we have trouble on our hands! Now off to make it right with the showroom...to be continued!

It's all in the detials...

Lots and lots of trim and moulding have been keeping us busy lately. After measuring, remeasuring, conditioning, staining and sealing them, they are almost ready for install. Flooring is up first though!

 

Hurry up and wait

The counter top folks were out to measure for the template today and now the waiting game begins...the original time frame quoted may no longer be the case. Looks like it could be up to 3 weeks! Yikes! Certainly doesn't help the timeline!

They are here!!!

Folks the cabinets are IN and we LOVE them! It is amazing that in 8 hours the kitchen has gone from a shell to an almost livable, ready-to-move-my-spices in lookin' kitchen! Still a few more drawers, shelves and hardware to go but already they look downright a-maz-ing!

Old kitchen, new life

We have our garage back! I am so excited that the old cabinets have new life in our garage!

Thank you Smith team!

Pantry door & staining

The pantry door is in and the staining has begun! This is a preview of the stain for the cabinets...only one more week and the cabinets will be in!!!



Brotherly bonding over hoods & wonderboard

Matt & Beth came up for a few days to help with prepping the floors for tile and hanging the hood! Great progress and great company! Thanks guys!!!!

 

Sneak peek at the new cabinets

We got a sneak peek of the cabinets before they are off to the stainer and they look GREAT! See for yourself!

 Look at that island!

The new breakfast bar

Upper cabinet, dishwasher space and sink cabinet

Drywall & paint makes all the difference

The drywall is in and it really looks and feels like a real room now! Not shortly after the texture dried were we off to painting...now we will do something else rather than watch this paint dry...another Home Depot trip?

Lots of light

It was one long, dirty, dusty day but we now have new and improved lighting! Just in time for drywall later this week!

Fully dimmable LED lighting

After a bit a drywall we'll hang the new amber pendents!

Pantry is almost done...

After a long successful day the pantry is just about done. A few finishing touches and it'll be ready for drywall this week!

 

Lighting surprise!

Supervisor Niko is on duty; protective eye ware, check! Out comes the old lighting and soon enough new fancy LED lighting!

We even lucked out with the old lighting and will only have small holes to fill instead of replacing the entire wood ceiling! Yessssss!

Subfloor & pantry

Well today may warrant a double post since so much is happening...the sub floor is in and Niko (and me) couldn't be happier!

The pantry is starting to take shape and with luck it will be fully framed by tonight...measure once, cut twice...err maybe that backwards?

Appliances have arrived...

The shiny new appliances have arrived! Here's the fridge...isn't she a beauty!

I think we may have had a Costco experience...although we've measured, re-measured and factored it in the design (just like that gallon of mustard...) it just looks so much bigger now that it's home! It will be a few weeks before we can plug her in and take her for a test drive!

Passed inspection!

This week the newly framed window was put in! This may just take the edge off with how cold it's been and will certainly help with the rain! The record temp has been 49 degrees...not too bad for an open floor and window. We passed the first inspection and have the go ahead to continue electrical and to put in the subfloor!

Nate and Rene made a full day of electrical work this weekend. No surprises and no shocks! Now we have all of our new outlets placed and are ready to seal up this floor!

No more laminate flooring...ever!

We've had our fair share of removing laminate flooring (stairs, hallway, under carpet...) and will never, ever, ever think of installing this anywhere! I got to pull the ol' "bun in the oven" card and left poor Nate to all the scraping!

Plumbing away!

Rene, Steve & Nate tackled a huge amount on the to-do list with moving the gas lines, HVAC lines, water and waste! (I think they even enjoyed themselves!)

All hock-ups are in there new locations and ready for the inspector...but the weekend is not done...next maybe a window, some subfloor or is it electricity time?

 

Hammer time...

The rest of the subfloor was removed yesterday and today the wall is coming down and beams are going up! We had a break in the rain early this morning and Nate, Daddy and Steve were on the job!

last time we will see that wall!

Going...

Going...

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GONE!!!



Perfectly level = one happy engineer!