The kitchen is an important room in any house. It is the nerve center, the gathering place, and where we spend most of our time. Because of this, we spent a crazy amount of time and energy planning the layout for this room. It was like a giant puzzle – trying to marry an efficient and…
Category: Kitchen
The Big Kitchen REVEAL – Part 1
The kitchen is DONE! Since the kitchen renovation is the biggest single room project we have completed, we are going to split the big reveal into two parts. In this part of the reveal we will take a whirlwind history tour to show the progress from day one! If you are interested in going back to…
Kitchen Tile
In the past few posts we showed how we installed the cabinets and then cut and installed the butcher block countertop. The next step was to finally add the subway tile. Originally we had just planned to have the tile backsplash go up 18″ on the wall to the height of the shelving and cabinets….
Butcher Block Countertops – Part 2
In our last post I described the process of cutting and fitting the butcher block countertops for our kitchen. Everything went smoothly, but one issue we had was warping with both of the 12′ boards. I am assuming this happened because we stored them in the shed during a hot and humid week. After getting…
Butcher Block Countertops – Part 1
After finishing the installation of our cabinets and it was now time to cut our countertops. I think we always envisioned our kitchen with butcher block countertops, but there was a brief moment when we did consider other options. One important element that pushed us back to butcher block was the price of other typical…
The Kitchen Renovation Begins!
Our original plan was to spend the spring and summer months working on the exterior of the house. We wanted to fix the porches, add missing trim and siding, and paint the entire house. Well, that didn’t happen. We had trouble finding someone willing to help with the porches, then it just seemed silly to…
First progress in the kitchen
Most people consider the kitchen to be the most important room in the house. In the planning process, we agonized, seriously AGONIZED, over how to arrange our kitchen. If there was ever a time in the renovation when our marriage was put to the test, it was definitely the kitchen layout that caused the most…
Under New Management 