Kitchen Remodel

For those of you who enjoyed seeing the pictures of our porch remodel here are some of the kitchen. We did the kitchen in January and February of 2006 when Jack was only 8 months old. Sometimes I wonder if we were crazy but when I see the before pictures I remember why we were so eager!

Before pictures. Note the faux brick wall, the robin's egg blue laminate counters and the 70's style vinyl floor.

The view of the wall where the oven and stove-top were. You can still see some of the faux brick on the wall to the right of the image.

An image of the area where the sink was and the bay window in the eat-in area of the kitchen. You can see the window to the left was originally in a different position and Jim had to move it again.

This is the view into the old porch. The opening to the left is where the door went (Jim had to move this too) and the opening to the right is where the refrigerator went. Jim bumped out the refrigerator out into the porch so that we could have a full sized refrigerator that didn't jut out into the kitchen.

Here's an image of my brother helping to install the new window in the middle of January...brr...

The drywall is up and prepped.

Now to tackle the floors. The whole center portion of the kitchen dipped down so we had to remove the sub floor and pulled up the joists to level out the entire floor.

Here's Jim fixing the joists. What you can see is actually the ceiling of our laundry room.

The hardwood floor goes in finally. What a valentine's day gift!

The cabinets arrive. The one thing that we decided to have done professionally. The cabinets were a costly investment so we didn't want to risk installing them incorrectly.

Cabinets going up.

Granite going in.

The sink and appliances go in.

Jim put in the picture frame molding that I wanted in the eat-in area of the kitchen and a new light fixture.

And here it is finished!