Kitchen Progress
(A public remodeling post)
Last week, I decided I had scuffed my foot over the high part of the subfloor too many times. So I pulled up the plywood, and starting pulling up the top layer of old floor until I found this:
Rot under everything. I should have seen this from my basement, but I just did not notice. (it was in the dark part of the ceiling down there.) This is where the old sink had been, I guess the water must have been dripping between the original floor and the first subfloor for like, oh ... 60 years! That's why the top wood was swollen and my subfloor was high in that one spot.
I ended up cutting the whole thing back to the joists, installing my own little cross pieces with joist hangers, and patching it up. (Yes, that's my basement below.)
I was still putting the plywood back down when Angus came to install the boxes he'd made!
Sink is in (just resting there now) and the dishwasher will go to the left of it. (With a custom panel.) As you can see, I have the hot water almost in, and the cold started.
The sink has a beautiful taper to it, which neither Angus or I had been aware of. I really like it ... it makes a very clunky sink a bit more elegant. Unfortunatly, it also creates a breeding ground for muck and ick to collect, so we'll have to fill it. Angus made some wood filler pieces that will go in when we're done.
Here's the blind corner unit:
DH has finally started to strip the upper cabinets. I told him he'd better get to that upper right hand corner first since it will be hard to reach once the dishwasher goes in.
Angus lent us a tool that will let us get all the paint out of the old bead w/out damaging the wood. (Tool was used on right bead, but not left.)
The cabinets had been green (not surprising) and PINK!
Right now we have a choice ... we can either use the original glass doors, OR Angus thinks he can modify the face frame so these doors will fit:
I have two of them - they were on the other pantry cabinets. (The ones that were on a wall that came down.) (And yes, that's mold on the bottom from when the basement flooded. ew.)
The glass doors looked like this:
The glass ones are pretty, and have some nice details around the glass frame (which is hard to see here.) But of course you have to keep things clean inside. Another option is to get patterned glass, but I'm not sure that a.) that would look right and b.) it would help much with the look.
If I use the solid ones, then we would not have to be as neat with our storage, but there is some beading on the cabinet up top that would not line up.
Opinions?
I finally started to figure out how to put in the microwave vent - We hadn't picked the micro when the sheet rock was done, so this area had been rocked over.
When I took the sheetrock back off, I realized I'd forgotten there's a stud right in the middle where the vent needs to go out! I need to borrow your stud-notcher, annie_v!
Angus carved into one side of the sink cabinet to make the transition from sink to side cabinets
It's pretty, but this detail might be too delicate for the size of the sink. (If you look at the first sink shot, you'll see what I mean.) I'm going to hold off on having him do the other side 'til I see what the doors etc look like. It may require something more rounded.
Also in the first sink shot, you can see that line that Angus drew for counter height when he first started. I stood back from it and was shocked at how "off" my window looked. I was pretty upset, and knew I'd notice that forever. Further, I was pissed at Joe who put in the window!
I had to go to work that day and left Angus here. When I got back he had left me this note:
Last week, I decided I had scuffed my foot over the high part of the subfloor too many times. So I pulled up the plywood, and starting pulling up the top layer of old floor until I found this:
Rot under everything. I should have seen this from my basement, but I just did not notice. (it was in the dark part of the ceiling down there.) This is where the old sink had been, I guess the water must have been dripping between the original floor and the first subfloor for like, oh ... 60 years! That's why the top wood was swollen and my subfloor was high in that one spot.
I ended up cutting the whole thing back to the joists, installing my own little cross pieces with joist hangers, and patching it up. (Yes, that's my basement below.)
I was still putting the plywood back down when Angus came to install the boxes he'd made!
Sink is in (just resting there now) and the dishwasher will go to the left of it. (With a custom panel.) As you can see, I have the hot water almost in, and the cold started.
The sink has a beautiful taper to it, which neither Angus or I had been aware of. I really like it ... it makes a very clunky sink a bit more elegant. Unfortunatly, it also creates a breeding ground for muck and ick to collect, so we'll have to fill it. Angus made some wood filler pieces that will go in when we're done.
Here's the blind corner unit:
DH has finally started to strip the upper cabinets. I told him he'd better get to that upper right hand corner first since it will be hard to reach once the dishwasher goes in.
Angus lent us a tool that will let us get all the paint out of the old bead w/out damaging the wood. (Tool was used on right bead, but not left.)
The cabinets had been green (not surprising) and PINK!
Right now we have a choice ... we can either use the original glass doors, OR Angus thinks he can modify the face frame so these doors will fit:
I have two of them - they were on the other pantry cabinets. (The ones that were on a wall that came down.) (And yes, that's mold on the bottom from when the basement flooded. ew.)
The glass doors looked like this:
The glass ones are pretty, and have some nice details around the glass frame (which is hard to see here.) But of course you have to keep things clean inside. Another option is to get patterned glass, but I'm not sure that a.) that would look right and b.) it would help much with the look.
If I use the solid ones, then we would not have to be as neat with our storage, but there is some beading on the cabinet up top that would not line up.
Opinions?
I finally started to figure out how to put in the microwave vent - We hadn't picked the micro when the sheet rock was done, so this area had been rocked over.
When I took the sheetrock back off, I realized I'd forgotten there's a stud right in the middle where the vent needs to go out! I need to borrow your stud-notcher, annie_v!
Angus carved into one side of the sink cabinet to make the transition from sink to side cabinets
It's pretty, but this detail might be too delicate for the size of the sink. (If you look at the first sink shot, you'll see what I mean.) I'm going to hold off on having him do the other side 'til I see what the doors etc look like. It may require something more rounded.
Also in the first sink shot, you can see that line that Angus drew for counter height when he first started. I stood back from it and was shocked at how "off" my window looked. I was pretty upset, and knew I'd notice that forever. Further, I was pissed at Joe who put in the window!
I had to go to work that day and left Angus here. When I got back he had left me this note: