Kitchen update

Not too much to update you on, except that I feel like I am on one of those HGTV shows, where things are not quite as I expected and I could get all crazy kitchen redo lady but I don't :-) And that once you think you are done with one thing, it leads to another thing. 

Adam taking up the gross linoleum. 

It just came up in big wide sheets with only wood floor underneath! 

Fir floors underneath. Too bad our other ones are trashed and our dog would only trash these soft ones too... so in goes some tile. 

Here is an example of thinking one thing and then having to do another... we are cheap and good at destruction and taking things apart. We were just going to leave the wood floors in and tile over the top. Then our contractor saw that the subfloor looked pretty good and thought if we took the wood floors out, we could get the tile in better and have it be more flush with the other floors, so a couple days later, Adam takes out the wood floors, nails, and paper. Same thing with the ceiling tiles. We were going to just sheet rock over them, but decided take them out later... oh well! 

Our contractor is just one guy who contracts some of the more specific things out. Could we have done this ourselves, we are realizing, yes. But Oh well, he is a good guy and he will do some really nice finishing work. But right now he has just done a few little things while the plumber has been in and we are waiting for the electrician to work next.  

Again, we decided to move our water heater back about a foot to give us a bigger than normal pantry but not quite walk in... and well, the plumber could only move it 6 inches. So he worked ALL day and was only able to give us 6 inches, was it worth it. I am not sure... 

The space where the water heater came out of, moved slightly and went back in. 

water heater in the middle of the room. Also sings of the arch that will be between the dinning room and kitchen. 

Support Beam and Arch

Again, here I could have gone all HGTV crazy. The support beam was bigger than I thought it would be. And since we wanted to match the arch that is between the living room and dinning room, it had to be built under the support beam. So it's all lower than I thought it would be. But it's going to look great and we are not in the place to go changing and paying for changes like that... :-)  

Tomorrow the electrician comes back. We have to decide on tile and the place we want to get our counter tops. We are going with Absolute Black Granite. Then our contractor will put insulation in and next week they will probably start sheet rocking! Then it will feel more real! 

While some of this was happening, we headed to Birch Bay to camp and stay away from the chaos, that didn't seem to really happen. But again, oh well. Birch Bay with my parents was fun! 

S'mores!

Treats at the "C Store"

Eliza rode her bike on the "big" road. She was very careful and followed all biking road rules!