Kitchen

More some kitchen thing

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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.

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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!

 

Kitchen Update

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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!

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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

Drywall…There’s nothing funny about Drywall.

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Tackling the drywall on our own was something we were adamant about, at the beginning, and we got started on the kitchen. With help from some borrowed tools from the Toronto Tool Library (Drywall lift, screw gun, rotozippy thing, etc) we threw the stuff up like it was paper. Then we decided to never drywall again. 

Future site of counters and cabinets!
The Ceiling!
Future site of kitchen sink!
A fine lookin’ brick wall

Creee-eee-eepy Crawlspace #1

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Under the kitchen is a crawlspace that was full of crap. We spent 3 hours cleaning out the garbage, mouse and rat poopies, and the piles of insulation that had become an affordable housing complex for various rat families, and finally raking it flatish. I fully expected to find human bones. 

Despite the mask is still inhaled a whole rat
Just a very small amount of garbage. Very small.
Warm and toasty in the winter
East Side Insulated
West side Insulated!
Much Cleaner

 

Slip Slidin’ Away

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After a long hiatus of not posting due to laziness, We’re Back!

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Channelling our Hulk strength we removed the lovely brown trimmed, steel sliding door with the “DIY glass mosaic insert”. It weighed a lot! Time for a fresh white start! Thankfully the frame was mostly plumb and the door fit quite well in the spot it was supposed to fit. 

The kitchen… untouched by us.
So nice and airy!
Flashing
Door is in!

 

Beees??

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Or wasps or something… 

This is the second ceiling we’ve opened to find the crazy cellular cellulose colony creations of the common white anglo-saxon protestant. Luckily, they found the neighbourhood too “gritty” and fled to the Annex to be among their own kind. So we just vacuumed up their leftovers.

Note: No pics exist of the actual taking down of the kitchen ceiling, but approx. 400 sheep worth of wool insulation (we think) came tumbling down. Bahh

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