Kitchen Renovaton, Day 0

Tomorrow, our floor tile arrives, and our contractor Matt starts work on our kitchen. This is work we've been eagerly anticipating since we moved into our house. At 10' by 10', our kitchen is not small. Unfortunately, the kitchen includes three different thresholds, so its layout is critical to having a functional kitchen. Ours wasn't. We've been making due with one real cabinet with a countertop, one overhead cabinet, a hutch, and a bookcase forced to double as a kitchen cabinet. Now that we both have real jobs and some money saved, it's time to make that happen.



Our work includes putting in new tile floors, adding semi-custom maple cabinets, Silestone (engineered quartz) countertops, an undermount sink, a translucent glass-tile backsplash, ceiling fixes, paint, new stove, addition of a dishwasher, a new microwave, undercabinet lighting, and switches (so that we don't have ugly lighting fixture chains). There are, of course, more details, but I can't necessarily remember them all, and I'm fairly certain that if I could, I wouldn't want to list them.

Today, we did prep by clearing out our kitchen. When Matt arrives tomorrow, he'll be greeted by us (well, Judson, anyhow, and me later), and a kitchen that is empty and ready to go, with only the oven, sink, and overhead cabinet left in place. We have our fridge, microwave, and some minor storage/workspace set up in our dining room, and most other kitchen supplies are packed in boxes.



If you haven't had the distinct pleasure of spending time in our kitchen, I hope you enjoyed these photos. They document our starting point, which my mom says is important (and she has a point if I want to be in This Old House magazine or something similar someday).