Demolition 2008: Kitchen pt. 2

Somehow, weirdly, I don't think that I took many pictures of the project all last week. But don't think that stuff's not been happening; here's where it is today:

So, now we have everything completely drywalled, mudded, sanded, primed, and painted. I had a bit of a freakout about the paint color, and Jesse actually painted it for me two different times. I've finally settled on Benjamin Moore's Chestertown Buff for both the DR and the Kitchen. It's actually the same color that we painted the DR a couple of years ago (that Adam so nicely referred to as the same color as a newborn's diaper contents), and I was trying to find something to go with it in the kitchen, but yellows can be so tricky. And so now I'm just doing the same for both--I like the color, it meets the needs of the look that I'm going for in the space, and it helps me make the two areas flow together nicely. Besides, you can always change paint.

In addition, we're planning a wainscot wall paneling for the DR. We found this website that sells these kits where you buy a bunch of the pieces (stiles, rails, shoe moulding, etc) and then just mount them on the wall and paint it all white so that the wall itself becomes part of the paneling. It's a relatively cheap way of getting that raised paneled "look." Of course, once we read through the site where they say that their paneling is composed of mdf boards routed with a reversible bit, we thought that we might as well buy the mdf board and the same router bit and do it ourselves (and by we I mean I thought that Adam could do it himself for me, of course.....I think that Adam is starting to feel like I don't count what his time is worth at all).




Adam set up a kind of router table on the floor of the garage, since the garage is currently quite packed with all our unboxed cabinets and other tools. He must have done about 6 hours solid work on his knees getting everything set up, adjusted, and then running the planks through the router. I think that the finished product is going to look really fabulous, however. Thank you, my dear.

Ok. So, today I will go to pick up the new windows (note to self: next time, order windows much, much earlier) so that Jesse (our friend doing the work) can put them in this afternoon. Jesse is also hoping that we can start installing the cabinets today as well--yipee!!