Catch up!

Wow, we can't believe it's been a month and half since we moved into the house, and a month since we updated anything on here!

Needless to say there's a bit to catch up on. We showed a glimpse of the kitchen as it (mostly) stands now in the previous post, but here's what's happened since the last real renovation update...which was at the beginning of July, oy.

So after getting the sink area built out, the cabinets required quite a bit of repair as we prepped them for paint.

Putty!

Re-lamination!

Serious repair.

 

Cabinet doors, all sanded all ready for putty.

Tools of the trade.

Next up was sanding and painting. You don't realize how much surface area cabinets have (inside and out) until you have to sand (and then paint) every square inch...

Keepin' the dust out of the rest of the house.

Sanding!

Deglossing! This really helped dull any varnish that was left after sanding.

Keep deglossing!

We left a time-capsule photo on the wall before we re-closed the tops of the cabinets. Let's just hope it's not us who finds this years from now.

New trim.

Status check, after all repairs, sanding, deglossing, and trim work.

For some reason we didn't take that many photos of the painting process, which either says something about our desire not to get paint on our cameras, or the fact that the 3 coats + primer we had to put on were grueling and left us with no energy to document the nightmare that it was.

First coat of paint.

Paint is magically (yeah, right) done!

Next up was the counters, we chose a birch counter top from Ikea. We really liked the warmth of the wood and the fact that it would allows us to cut and install it ourselves.

Sanding.

Polyurethane.

Curing.

Finally time to install!

Like a glove.

On to appliances!

It's alive! We picked up this gently used flat-top stove for a song at a Habitat for Humanity Re-Store.

The appliances were a bit grungy, both from the previous tenants and all the construction dust.

Transformation from repair to counters.

Christina enjoying some sustenance in our now-stocked (and cluttered looking) kitchen. Doors, drawers, backsplash, walls, and floor still to go.

So there you have it, we are now up-to-date! We'll try to make sure it's not another month between posts...