Kitchen Remodel Week 1

by migs

So far it’s been dusty, very noisy and flat out cluttered. I feel so helpless with this lack of organization through out the house. Other than what’s to be expected, things are going well. Seems a little slow, but I guess I’m stuck with the crap week where everything is being demolished, plumbing and electrical is being added, support beams being put in and nothing really looks good lol.

Mark is taking week 2… the fun week. It’s ok though! I’ve mastered working from home with banging noise all around. It’s called noise cancellation bose headphones :)

So here’s a pictorial update on what’s going down…


Let’s start with the before images of what the kitchen/extra room looked like prior to week 1 of the remodel:

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Pretty dated and tragic right? So Mark and I spent about 2 weekends building Ikea kitchen cabinets. It wasn’t so bad as long as you’ve set your mind to understand that it’s gonna take time to build and that some of this shit is heavy! I was so sore after day 1 of building lol. But I’m happy to say that Mark and I were able to concur this emotionally and physical journey haha! Beer and music definitely helped!

cabinets

Not pictured is our quartz “blizzard” – basically white – counter tops. The island alone is 11′ by 3′. It’s massive! There’s an extra foot of quartz on the back side of the island for some bar seating. On the counter top will be our new electric cook top with a contemporary rectangular range hood above. Also not pictured is our cool new sink! It’s not the normal stainless steel sink. It’s brown, almost a modern bronze/steel look to it which has a matte finish. I forgot what the actual material is, but it’s pretty awesome. It also has beveled edges and comes with a wood block that shifts left to right on the sink acting as a cutting board. It also came with a cool strainer that does the same thing. Stoked about that!

So now, we’re 3.5 days into week 1. Here’s how it’s looking:

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A 600 pound support beam inside the ceiling will be replacing that wall since the wall ended up being load baring. That wasn’t good news at all.

Here’s a mock up we made using both the ikea kitchen guide (had to install on parallels since it’s PC only) and photoshop to add in the flooring and backsplash. The backsplash color is actually different though. We ended up going with a green/brown vibe.

preview

The flooring is 6×24″ gray tiles that almost mimics wood. Very modern and chic and another highlight I’m looking forward to.

Also is week 1 is our new bar stools. They arrived today!

barstools

And last… and possibly least is an art installation/seating Mark and I created. Awhile back, we found some wood stumps on the side of El Torito. They had just cut down some trees. We parked and picked some up. They’re pretty heavy but really cool in my opinion. They actually sell something similar online for 100s each.

So we sanded each stump and stained them a darker color. They’re naturally tan. Last week, we headed to Home Goods and Mark found these really cool porcelain mushrooms. Usually, I’m not into that fantasy look for interior design, but they were just so unique we had to get them.

We ended up placing them on a stump that was unusable as a seat since it’s quite lower than the rest. We had planned it as an end table, but I guess now, it’s somewhat of an art piece. It looks kinda weird in the picture, or phallic even lol, but in person, it’s actually kinda cool/cute. We’re thinking of using it as bench seating possibly in the kitchen under our window. Not sure, but I thought I’d include it anyway since we finished it.

I present to you… mushroom bench lol:

mushroom_bench

So that’s week 1. I don’t expect people to actually read this lol. It’s more of a documentation for us so we can look back at this and say, wow. WTF?!

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