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Finally… A New Kitchen!

pantone175c — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:02:42 +0000

After several months of finding and conquering our inner most dark places, feats of strength, tests of wills, our new kitchen is 99% complete.

The remaining 1% = toe kicks and paint touch-up around the tile and grout.

We’re Moved In and You Missed It!!!

nernan — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:54:22 +0000

No actually we got totally engulfed in getting things together so that we could get out of Mario’s apartment by the first and into a liveable house. So this is why we haven’t updated in a LONG time, and still unfortunately I won’t be able to post pictures at this moment because I am really just killing time at work. So those will be up tonight.

But we are in with a functional kitchen and furniture to sit on… Stay tuned for more updates tonight.

Miles gets in the building mood.

pantone175c — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:35:02 +0000

Cabinets: Tall people are helpfull.

pantone175c — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:07:50 +0000

Bar Lighting and two FANCY columns

pantone175c — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:20:41 +0000

The Floor.

pantone175c — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:59:28 +0000

Brazilian Walnut. Erin and I laid it ourselves, it took use a couple of days. We worked until midnight on Saturday. We are so proud!

Down with the Wall

nernan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:26:16 +0000

Bar height wall, framed in.

So all the floors are up, trim work and cabinets out and the framers started today. I applied for our permit for construction as soon as we left the abstract company on friday, however I didn’t receive it approved until today, after the framers started framing and tearing things up. So needless to say i was getting a little nervous.

So the wall between the living room and kitchen is officially done and there are all sorts of wires just hanging down from the ceiling and now I found out that by city code we have to have smoke detectors hardwired in, how much is that gonna cost! Anyway, I guess safety first. Tomorrow the electrician will be here to do his stuff. Here’s to electricity!!! Come on in to see some pics!

Wall, from kitchen side.

Wall between kitchen and living area pre demo.

Wall between kitchen and living room, after framing.

Bar height wall, framed in.

Kitchen, from back wall.

This will someday be a bar with a great recycled glass top.

Our kitchen or premarital counseling?

nernan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:46:52 +0000

So Sunday we drove down to IKEA to finally pick up our kitchen!!! After spending way too much time shopping through the actual store and planning Miles’ room we finally went to get the boxes of which will soon be our kitchen cabinets. approximately 50 boxes of kitchen cabinets flat packed ready for us to spend several hours just putting it together. Are we really gonna need pre-marital counseling? As I stare at the back of the u-haul I am reminded of all those christmas movies where the mom and dad are yelling at each other while trying to get the christmas tree straight in the stand. This kitchen will be our tree and the tiled floor our stand. Hopefully we won’t kill each other. Here’s to great kitchens!

Demo Day 2, Where’s the water shut off?

nernan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:42:34 +0000

So Saturday was demo day 2! My mom, step dad and dad all came to help. All the carpet came up as well as tack strips, tile, and the rest of all the trim work. All went well except for one hitch, WHERE DO YOU TURN THE WATER OFF!!! Because this is such an old house there isn’t just one shut off valve, not at the water tank and not under any of the sinks. No, the only place we were going to be able to shut off the water was at the main water hole, under a foot and half of snow and ice. It took 5 of us all morning shoveling the front yard free of snow and still didn’t find it. Then my brother in-law came over that evening with my sister and my two most favorite girls in the world, he took one step into the snow where we stopped shoveling and there was the manhole! we, or Jay, found it.

Electri-fried!

pantone175c — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:53:35 +0000

Its amazing what can be found inside a wall. Today I found a random wire shoved into the wall that was in no way capped, taped or really even hidden. Since the inspector said the electric service and wiring in the house left something to be desired by todays standards, I was a little concerned…

After pulling the electric cooktop and oven I removed the bottom cabinets. I then stared locating all the electric wires and boxes so I could cap and tape them up.

220 for the cooktop – CHECK!
220 for the oven – CHECK!
Regular line for the range hood – CHECK!
Random wire sticking out of the wall – CHECK! wait… wtf?

It was just sticking out of the wall. I pulled the end out to find it all exposed!

My brother Chris decided to test it... the old fasion way.

The mystery wire accidently touched my world class butt and overloaded the grid in a 15 mile radius!

jk, It didn’t shock me. I still have no idea what the wire is for. The electrician is coming next week.