More some kitchen thing

A small collection of kitchen achievements.

Outdoor vent installed (a while back) and the upper hood cover installed, so that’s all done and ready for burnt foods. 

Shallow cabinet is the only relic of the old kitchen. Fit well in the old kitchen, so we thought it might be a useful addition(see last pic in post). With some creative cutting, painting, and some random faux walnut shelves, it fit there again and became our open concept pantry.  We have a whole shelf for beans!

Shiny upper hood parts

This is where the burned food comes out

New Open Concept Pantry

Pantry 2

Open concept cupboard system

Doors with knobs and drawers with also knobs.

More kitchen work being done. Installed trim piece on the base of the upper cabinets. Counter tops lightly sanded and oiled. Looking mighty fancy.  And knobs! Now we can open our drawers and put things inside them. 

Trim installed on bottom of cabinets

Close up!

 

Sort of a house.

Officially partially moved in! First meal in our house…pizza. The fireplace works well at keeping the fire in the fireplace. We have lamp. Our dining room looks like eastern bloc interrogation room.  

Furniture

Fire!

An interrogation room?

Kitchen Update

The Kitchen is beginning/has begun/began/has now taken shape and is mostly a working kitchen.  It hasn’t taken us THIS long, I’m just lazy and don’t update enough. 

Basic location of cabinets

Hi Range! Hi Fridge!

Cabinets are up! But no doors

Still no doors

Sink and Tiny Dishwasher

Whoa! Doors

The View from outside

Shiny Fridge

Kitchen Update: Awesomeness!

Appliances delivered and mostly in place. Upper and lower cabinet frames have been built. Brown on the inside, but will eventually have black doors and covers. A few minor things to be done before we can start the actual install. Despite being full of stuff, it still feels roomy! The room is so small that pics have to be taken from outside the room to fully capture the kitchen awesomeness!

Hi Range! Hi Fridge!

Basic location of cabinets

Kitshun Florss

After many weeks of acclimatization (more than necessary) we started on the floors. The finishing nailer borrowed from the tool library had severe air leak, so went and rented a cordless nailer from Home Depot and we got the first row in! Then we moved on to the floor nailer from the tool library, which also had an air leak. After another trip to Home Depot, we installed the rest of the floor, which flew by once we had working tools!  The finished product looks great and is definitely grey, despite looking very browinish in many of the pics. 

*Certain photos edited in the style of Piet Mondrian to remove embarrassing faces, excess flab.

Wax paper underlay

Does that look straight?

Good enough!

The working nailer

Planning Ahead

Gittn’ thurr

Nailgun misfire that will be hidden under the cabinets…thankfully

Grey floors….

Really, they’re grey

I swear they are grey

Purdy

Is the floor blue & black or white & gold?

Holy Toilet Bathman!

Paint… so much white.

Install Swedish brand sink unit.  

Install Toilet and Shower Fixtures.

Rejoice! 

 

The Bathcave

The recent progression of the bathroom has been quite quick, especially compared to how everything else in our house has moved.  With now grouted subway tiles and what looks to be a snake skin floor, we are ready for the usable parts of the bathroom to go in, like toilets and sinks and fixtures, and lights. 

It’s getting there

Bathroom with Drywall and Dense Board

Tiles Up!

Tiles Down!

Now with Grout

Grouted and looking kinda like snake skin

A guy and a girl walk into a bar….

…where they meet a guy 6 beers in and hire him to be their drywaller!  Best joke ever.

And now we have drywall and a house that looks more like a house!

Come in and see our drywall

Dining room, now with BBQ

We have ceilings again!

Mud Room ceiling

We have a front wall again!

Bathroom drywall & plastering

Bathroom ceiling, now with fan!

It’s getting there

Bathroom with Drywall and Dense Board

Shower

 

 

Clean up!

We stopped most work for a few weeks because we ripped down a ceiling, covered the whole house in dust, and then decided we should test for asbestos.

Test came back negative (in a good way), so we could get back to work! The house needed a good clean and vacuum.

Dirty 😦

Clean-ish!