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.