When I last shared my kitchen remodel plans with you, this is what my kitchen looked like. A little sad. Very dark. A little outdated. A lot has changed since then. It’s been a few weeks, so I thought I’d share my kitchen remodel update with you!
Here’s a day by day update.
The day before the counter top crew arrived, I emptied out all the cabinets and removed everything from the walls and countertops.
Day 1 :
The countertop crew arrived and started demolition on day 1.
They took out the bar wall and made it counter height.
Moved an outlet that was on the bar wall, tore out the backsplash and put up new sheetrock, and rebuilt the sink cabinet to hold the new farmhouse sink.
Day 1 was hoppin’!
Day 2:
Not much was going on here at the castle, except cleaning up massive amounts of dust.
Everywhere.
The crew were busy in their workshop making the countertops.
Day 3 :
To say that I was excited for day 3 to get started was an understatement!
The countertops were installed, as well as the sink and faucet.
I am in love with the new sink!!!
She’s so shiny and pretty.
Day 4 and 5:
The original plan was to do the backsplash, then the cabinets.
At the end of day 3 we saw that the weather was going to to change drastically by weeks end.
Since part of the painting would be done in a spray tent outside, we needed to get the painting done before the weather turned cold.
We spent 2 days removing doors, hinges, drawer guides, drawers, undercounted lighting, light switch covers and covering all surfaces with ram board, paper, tape and plastic.
Once all of that was done, we sanded, scraped and cleaned all cabinets, doors and drawers inside and out.
By far the hardest 2 days so far.
Day 6:
We sprayed the base cabinets white.
I will say this was time consuming, but so much better than painting and rolling the cabinets.
We purchased a new stationary HVLP sprayer.
Not only was it affordable, but it was so well worth the investment!
This was the half way mark and I was like a kid on Christmas morning.
Day 7:
The Hubs and I had a lot of work to catch up on, so not much was done other than remove all of the tape, paper, plastic etc and give the room a good cleaning.
We still have to paint the drawers and doors.
Fingers crossed we get them done before it gets too cold.
Already it is so light and bright.
No more dark hole!
We still have a lot of work to be done.
Repair the walls where they took out the bar wall.
Paint the doors and drawers.
A few places need paint touch up.
All trim and crown molding needs to be painted to match the cabinets.
The white plug in on the island will be replaced with a black one.
The black towel rack on the island will also be painted gold.
New hardware will be installed onto the cabinets.
And a few places either need caulk or trim moulding.
Of course, everything needs to be put back into the cabinets!
Yep, a lot still needs to be marked off of our punch list, but I’m already loving what we have done so far!
Also, happy mail or should I say happy packages have started arriving.
These are my new counter height bar stools.
That’s it for the kitchen remodel update.
I’ll be sure to share more with you next week!
Until next time….
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