In my family, it is not odd to spend a holiday weekend redecorating the house, rearranging furniture, or doing some huge project.
Since this week was Thanksgiving, we figured it was the appropriate time to demo our kitchen!
On Wednesday afternoon, my dad came over and gutted our kitchen in less than 2 hours!
For those that are new, this is what the kitchen looked like when the last owners lived here.
A few weeks ago we ripped out that ugly flooring as the first step in the kitchen remodel process.
Here is our progress from demo on Wednesday.
On Thanksgiving Day, we spent the evening putting the new sub floor down and Black Friday was spent marking the studs, leveling things out, prepping for cabinet install and painting.
Thankfully all that needed to be painted this far is the areas that will be showing and hard to reach once the new cabinets are in.
We will be spending today, (Saturday) installing the new cabinets. Sunday will be countertop and sink installation and getting the appliances back in place.
Next weekend we are hoping to be able to install the new floor (which we still need to make a final decision on), painting the rest of the kitchen the final color, and making decisions on backsplash, trim, and cabinet hardware. We did find a design for the hardware that we like and I managed to find it online for half the price so now we just need to decide if it is the one we want for sure.
I will be sure to update before the weekend is over with new pictures of the progress!
Please just keep your fingers crossed that everything goes off without a hitch and we have a fully functional kitchen again by Sunday night!
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From time to time, I like to take a moment and step back from the crazy, hectic day to day life in our home and reflect on all the great things we have been so lucky to have in our life and to our family.
This past weekend as I was preparing for our trip to Chicago, I noted that Saturday, November 17th was World Prematurity Day. On this day, I was very aware as this World Prematurity Day 2012, we celebrated our little preemie, Ellie, turning 11 months old.
When Ellie was born, at 36 weeks gestation, she had a few issues with breathing and eating but being the tough little chick that she is, she got over that rather quickly.
At 11 months old, Ellie is walking, babbling, feeding herself, drinking from a sippy and is the happiest baby I have ever met!
We couldn’t be more thankful for our little preemie!