Archives for August 2009

Are you tired of pictures of my kitchen yet?  Cause I’m kind of tired of posting them.   But you know that can o worms I referred to?  Well, the worms?  They do multiply. 

See the plan was to go Saturday to buy that gas stove from the appliance store we found via Craigslist.  But then Saturday morning the digital panel of our microwave conveniently messed up.  If you know the time, you can see parts of the line and understand it but just to look at it, you can’t tell what it says.  The microwave still works.  You just have to really pay attention to what you’re doing.  Well, when we got to the appliance store we also realized that we should buy a stainless steel hood AND they had some over the stove microwaves. Why not kill two birds with one stone and go ahead and buy a microwave while there was a good deal and also eliminate the need for a hood.  Go us.  Here is the lovely set sitting in our garage.

But then.  We get it home to find out if we installed it under our cabinet, it would be all of about 5” from the top of our new lovely stove.  So now our worms are multiplying and after much discussion, we decide that Scott needs to cut our cabinets in half, as marked by the blue tape.  This sounds kind of easy but when you actually do it, you have to cut the cabinet, reinstall the bottom shelf, and remanufacture the doors so they are smaller.

Also not mentioned is he needs to run the gas for the stove and create another piece of cabinet at the back of the stove where there will be a 3” gap. 

So yeah, something that could have been as easy as sliding out the new stove and sliding in the new one has sort of become complicated. 

You can call the backsplash DONE.  And GORGEOUS.  If you’re in or near the Carolinas and need tile work done, please call Luke Clonts at 1-843-408-5429 or email him at lukeclonts AT gmail.com. He was meticulous in his work and did a fabulous job.  And yes, I post his information with full permission (encouragement, actually) from him.

(please ignore the spices on the toaster oven, whoops!)

The thing about renovations is once you crack it open, you usually have a can of worms on your hands.  We are at a point that the only thing left planned to do was the lighting.   However, both of us are ready to upgrade the stove and hood to stainless steel.  It’s 16 years old, the burners are uneven, the oven light doesn’t work and the timer on the stove is broken.  I don’t think we’re jumping the gun too much (and yes, I’m trying to rationalize this unplanned purchase). 

I really want a slide-in but they are expensive.  We went to Sears and realized they were easily twice the price.  But Craigslist to the rescue!  An appliance store about 45 minutes from here posted about a discontinued one, brand new with a warranty for the same price we were going to pay for a free standing one.  Plus, this one is gas.  I’m so excited!  We’re planning to go tomorrow to pick it up.

Also, I’m pretty sure I want to go with stainless steel handles now.

As for the bathroom, Scott finished measuring for the outlet/light holes on the mirror and took it to the glass place today.  We’re supposed to have that back first of next week.

So whew.   I see a light at the end of the tunnel on all this and really all that will be left ironically is lighting.  Always lighting.  I don’t know why it’s so hard for me!

Holy cow, look at my kitchen.  It’s not even grouted yet and I’m ecstatic.  Apparently it’s very hard to take a good picture of glass tile but I did what I could.  I can’t believe the difference.

In other not nearly as exciting news, Scott caulked our bathroom and wired the lighting.  I think he’s going to measure the mirrors and get them cut tomorrow.

So do you think it would work if I relocated my desk into my kitchen?