Day 1: The Chaos Begins

The last renovation/addition project finished long after I had the time to continue blogging. Life got full, and well, it went on. But the next phase, and hopefully the last has started, the kitchen. We are removing the wall between the kitchen and dining room and reconfiguring the workflow. It has been months of machinating, calculating and research to get to this point and I am so ready to hand the ball over to our contractor, Trevor Miller at Brady 3. Here goes:

Day 1: Tearing out the Kitchen

First went the upper cabinets, of which there were very few, as a matter of fact, very few cabinets all together, not good. Then the granite. The piece that spans just 4 cabinets weighs about 300 lbs and took mucho effort to get into the garage, where everything else is going until it reaches it's next purpose. The goal is to keep as much out of the land fill as possible.

Kitchen cabinets are probably the single most expensive part of a kitchen, outside of the labor to put it all together. It took soooooooo long to get to the point of finally moving forward. Not to mention the disruption to how we move through each day, the noise, the mess, the surprises a 90 year old house hides and of course the cha-ching.

That all being said, Trevor's team of guys at Brady 3 are conscientious, organized, reliable and clean up after themselves. Hmmm... I wonder... at home... hmmm???

Then went the granite which will be re-fabricated for other ideas, like a new powder room look, antique table top and just possibly the new studio bathroom counters.

 As much planning as has gone into this day getting here, there have still been some interesting challenges, like where did that answering machine and phone go? Having everything to eat at home, darn, forgot to grab forks, no TV???? Things you walk by everyday and forget are there, like artwork on walls, cork board full of keys. It's all good though and exciting.

A bar gone era!