Kitchen CONSTRUCTION

Here's the construction in all its glory! These are mostly pictures Josh took with his iPhone and sent to me so I knew what the heck was going on and could see the progress since I took the kids out of town for a large part of the job to keep them out of the way. I was here when the cabinets were installed, though. :)

Hardwood being ripped up. Underneath the concrete  it sat on was some white linoleum.

Under the white linoleum which was attached to a layer of subfloor there was another layer of beautiful linoleum. I can't believe anyone covered it up!

Mold in the sink and where the floor was sinking.

The lovely living room. Haha

 Linoleum. Isn't it pretty?! Straight from the 70s, when the house was built.

If you look closely (click the pictures to make them bigger) you can see the washer, dryer and other laundry room stuff down below.

Hardi backer. Hopefully we don't have any more floor issues!

 Starting the tile!

Tiled kitchen. Yay!

 First wall of cabinets are in!

A little further...

All the cabinets are in!

Once they were all in the countertop guy called and said he was on his way to come measure. Since we had such great notice and he was cracking weird jokes the moment he got here I wasn't a huge fan. But he did say he'd try to get us done fast because we had no sink (or counter) and young kids. 7-10 business days, closer to 7, he told me. 2 weeks. Because of his short notice when he came to measure we weren't sure how much notice we'd have when he was going to come install.

I woke up one morning to the kitchen sink on the deck covered in snow. I was afraid Murphy's Law was going to send him that day! NO!! Business day 13. 2 1/2 weeks I had no kitchen. We had lots of microwaved food, used lots of paper plates, and ate out quite a bit as well!

The counters are in! Hooray! Look at all that space!

Finished product!