kitchen remodel: day 36
Braden’s smoker made a lot of great meals for us, but it was time for a new one. After a lot of research he decided on this one… As soon as we got it home we put it to good use smoking our first chicken. It was delicious!
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We were both craving something sweet, so I decided to make brownies in our new oven. They came out of the oven looking delicious, but tasting like plastic. 🙁 After running the oven empty for a while the plastic taste is gone… now I just have to make another batch of
new smoker
Now that is a refrigerator! In case you forgot here are the old and new side by side…
kitchen remodel: oven fail
Everything is finally coming together…! * Got the call today that our new cabinets are at Home Depot and ready for us to pick up! * Called the granite place to tell them we decided on Ubatuba * Cabinet hardware for the new cabinets is ready for me to pick up at Lowe’
kitchen remodel: refrigerator
We took an outing today to go check out our granite choices. We got to walk through the warehouse and look at huge slabs of it, which is much better then looking at the little samples at Home Depot. But this is what we’re dealing with… a ton more
kitchen remodel: update
Today was a flurry of activity in the kitchen… The counter guy came out to make templates for our granite. I was interested to see how he was going to do this. I was somewhat expecting the cool lasers with the dots that they use on all the DIY and
kitchen remodel: granite
That’s all folks… well, for now anyway. Surprisingly they kicked it into gear today and got almost everything done. The only part left are the toe kicks, and they will do those when they come back in a few weeks to install the new cabinets. I’ve always complained
kitchen remodel: day 10
Today is the first day its starting to feel like a kitchen! We spent the weekend with an abnormally long peninusula, a stove in the middle of the floor and a dishwasher up against the dining room wall. Today everything except for the refrigerator was put in its place, the
kitchen remodel: counters
I can’t believe its taken 7 days to get to this point… The kitchen is definitely coming together… but there is still a lot left to do. I have a feeling its going to take them at least 3 more days to complete the stuff that is left! Then
kitchen remodel: day 9
Last night I called my Home Depot guy in a bit of a panic over the peninsula cabinets. He told me it was no problem to return the ones I have and order new ones… and if we weren’t happy with it now, we probably never would be so
kitchen remodel: day 8
Today was tile laying day. Luckily we had just enough tile left over from when we did the living room 5 years ago. Its a good thing I saved it, and knew where to find it in the garage. Braden’s first reaction to the kitchen when he got home
kitchen remodel: cabinet dilemma
This week has been full of emotional highs and lows. This morning was a high… the pantry cabinet was installed and the bar area cabinets are in! I also found out I got some special features that I wasn’t expecting… like sliding pantry shelves and a sliding shelf in