Monthly Archive: March 2012

Mar 31

It’s Amazing How Much Carrying Rolled Up Carpet Looks Like You’re Carrying a Body

Not a single tear was shed in tearing up this carpet.

“I should have known this was going to be hard the second I said it was going to be easy.” That single quote, uttered by yours truly, summarizes just about this entire day. We started a little after 7:30am and wrapped up around 7:30pm.  Twelve straight hours of electrical work, ripping up carpet, padding, and …

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Mar 30

Wrecking Ball

Oh, how I have longed for this moment ...

Took the day off of work to get a jump start on the kitchen demolition. My original goal was to take out half the cabinets.  Turns out that went a lot faster than I expected and we ended up removing all the cabinets and about half the doors in the house.  Right now the counters …

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Mar 27

Break All The Stuff

How I Suspect I'll Feel Once Demo Starts

We received official word this morning that our kitchen remodel starts next Monday.  There’s a lot of work we have to get done between now and then – pack up all the dishes, move appliances and furniture, empty out the fridge, etc. The most important, however? I get to take a sledgehammer to the kitchen.

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Mar 23

The Remodel Project – Acquisition of Cabinets Complete

SAMSUNG

The cabinets for the kitchen arrived yesterday.  I have to be honest, I really thought they’d look different.

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Mar 18

Paint the Town

White is the new color for the ceiling; the yellow (w/glaze) is the old.

Steph decided to do some painting of the house this weekend.  Historically, my best contribution to painting has been to get the hell out of the way and let Steph do it.*  That’s boring though so I took a few pictures.   * I did help with prep, clean up, and put up one of …

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