Our Kitchen Remodel

Demolition

Tearing out the island

Cole working with Daddy

Levi tearing off the wallpapered paneling

Levi cutting the holes for the new canned lights
Marcus giving a hand with the demo
Carson taking some boards off

The twins
Time out to play with Miss Xena

She is growing like a weed!

Part of the new island, premade cabinets.

View of the kitchen with the old island out, notice the wallpaper :)

Another view

We've been very busy to start off the new year. We decided to give the kitchen a bit of a remodel, which will be done in two phases. The first phase started this month. We will be taking down the old walls, rewiring, putting up new walls. Also, taking out the old pantry, the old island, and building a new island. Levi's brother David is doing the island work for us. Also, Levi is putting up all new lighting. The next phase, in a year or two, will be new backsplash, new countertops, and new flooring. We are excited to make this house our own, while still leaving the neat original things about it alone.

Before we did anything, there was wallpapered paneling on the walls from the 70's. We hadn't seen anything like this before. We took it all down, to find regular wood paneling beneath it. We will take that down this weekend, where we will find plaster and tear it all out down to the studs. The electricians are coming Monday to update the electric and hookup all the new canned lights Levi and his Dad installed this past weekend. I scraped the soffet only to find 6 layers of wallpaper on there...it took a whole day to get very little done. In the end we decided to just put beadboard over it, which will tie it in with other parts of the kitchen later. Yeah! No more scraping for me!

The boys have had a good time watching, and helping with the demo. We tore apart the old island last Friday night, each boy got to use the tools to help Dad tear off boards...then before long they had all of their play "tools" in the kitchen helping more.