Deconstruction

This was a pretty low weekend as far as the project was concerned. Friday night Jill and I started going over everything and were quite alarmed to discover that the holes drilled for the cabinet pulls didn’t line up vertically or horizontally, and as a result all of the pulls were very noticably out […]

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It is 3:15 on a Wednesday in Mission, KS. Andy is in his office working. Enter Rick, the plumber, stage right. With Rick is Joe, assisting Rick.
[Rick] Andy? We’re just finishing up, we’ll be taking off now.
[Andy] Oh, sounds good Rick, did you get it all taken […]

Yesterday was sort of an odd day…the electricians were here nearly the entire day making everything hot, attaching light fixtures, putting on faceplates, etc. I have thought for weeks (months?) that I would be euphoric when this milestone was reached, but it was not all it was cracked up to be.
Call me […]

Apparently GMA took our faucet from the “sold” shelf and sold it to another customer, obviously a dignitary or celebrity of some sort. As a result, they had to re-order it from St. Louis. As a result, the plumber couldn’t come today, and won’t come until next week. As a result, we […]

A fresh batch of pictures for you, gentle readers. Today the fortunate sons of Specific Design Home arrived to shove handfuls of grout upon our walls. They left behind a terrific mess, but the end result was very pleasing. Before departing for … ahem… the weekend at around 11am, they even rolled […]

Backsplash tile started going up today, scheduled for grouting tomorrow and hopefully the electrician will be back on Friday to hook up power to the kitchen and new bath. These little tiles have spacers built right into them, so they are making record time in putting them up - this picture is after just […]

Things lost so far:

Kitchen Faucet. MIA, Kent has no idea where it is
Backsplash tile. David reportedly ordered weeks ago, but as of yesterday was not sure if it was in.
New bathroom countertop. In my excitement to have the kitchen countertop in yesterday I didn’t even notice that the bathroom countertop (which […]

David and Justin were here for a little over an hour this morning, installing the straggler cabinet. Just a few minutes ago the countertop installers left, and without further delay here they are…

Timing is everything right? Well, it is in the the remodeling business anyway! Andy and I have been alone here since Tuesday and boy is it lonely (hah) and a little frustrating! The countertops have delayed everything as you have read in Andy’s post. Our dreams of having this project […]

David and company are coming over Monday morning to put in the remaining cabinet (to the right of the kitchen sink) and install the dishwasher before the countertops are delivered on Monday afternoon. The dishwasher made it just under the wire, as the first load that GMA brought out was sans dishwasher. We […]