Kitchen demolition derby

[akruckus]

Thanks all!  Glad to hear everyone has survived their own remodels!

It's going to be a BIG improvement to our little 40's farmhouse kitchen!    This is just phase 1 with tearing out walls and moving staircases, the finish work will be sometime down the road.   But having some elbow room after trying to work in that little space with gangly James is going to be DIVINE.   

So far so good with stress (knock on drywall.)   We're planning a wedding and honeymoon for this summer too.  Apparently that just wasn't enough fun and excitement, so we decided to remodel all the floors and then the kitchen on top of that.  Why not.        Biggest problem so far is keeping the dang dogs from eating the plaster chunks off the exposed lathe walls!   Punks!   

James took some convincing that building the MAK into the inside kitchen just wasn't going to be feasible.    (Even WITH a really, really big exhaust fan.)    But I let him know he's more than welcome to get going on a full outdoor kitchen for me!     The MAK has come in SO HANDY for so many things already-- No way my new home oven is going to steal all the attention.     

Good luck with the wedding and honeymoon plans, I'd offer advice but I didn't do anything besides say "yes" and "that sounds good."  I did give encouragement when she second guessed herself on something, for example, "don't worry it is going to a blast, everyone will have a good time!" and "what really matter is if we enjoy ourselves and have fun, oh and you say 'I do' at some point during the wedding "

[SmokinKat]

Thanks Aruckus!  Yeah, we're shooting for very low stress kind of a party.   There will be good beer, good food, and good people-- beyond that I don't care a whole heck of a lot!  Plus I can always spike some wine with Xanax if the mothers are getting out of control!       

[IR2dum]

Congrats on the upcoming nuptials, Kat and James. I think that this wedding will be the second letstalkbbq wedding with Smoke and Wendy being the first. Who's next?

[SmokinKat]

WHEW!   Finally have the contractors done with their part of the remodel-- now to sweep up the dust and get some finish work going.  Minor details like floors, cabinets, counters.... piece of cake.

Here is the original space,



Here it is with some walls knocked out and the staircase to downstairs being deleted. 



And here we go with a new doorway, and space for the fridge to be INSIDE the kitchen for once!



We also opened up the wall between the kitchen and livingroom, and will eventually put a breakfast bar with stools in this space.   They did a great job of matching the original arches for the house-- it makes it feel SO much bigger! 



Hardly noticed being w/o a stove for a month!  Although I am looking forward to a meal that doesn't have at least trace amounts of drywall dust in it...   

[smokeasaurus]

Nice 

[teesquare]

As long as you and James are still speaking...you did well! Remodels and - building houses is hard of "domestic tranquility"......

[Wingman]

Kat, the remodel is looking great, nice space changes.  Looks like you guys put some real thought into it and I think it takes as much thought as building sometimes.  WTG!

[Pam Gould]

Very nice Kat..love the open spaces.  Pam  .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.

[TentHunteR]

Looks like the remodel is going according to plan, and that breakfast on the MAK is making me hungry!

[Tailgating is my game]

Kat it sure looks like your kitchen has nine lives

[Smokin Don]

Nice breakfast on your Mak!!! Gotta love those pellet smokers!!! Don

[muebe]

Looking good so far Kat!