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Updating the original 1968 kitchen complete with floral wallpaper, bright blue formica countertops, and wood paneling. We are using NYB doors, Abstrakt accents, and black Paperstone countertops.

BIG update to our NYB kitchen!

Posted Oct 14th, 08 at 4:15 pm by pgans
Updated Oct 14th, 08 at 4:29 pm by pgans

Wow, how time flies. I have been so busy at work, watching football Saturday (ok, Sunday, Monday night, and Thursday night also), and doing miscellaneous kitchen stuff that I completely let my blog go. Anyway, here's a few things that we've done in the past 2 months.

First, I got the...

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Tile & sink installed, Marmoleum started

Posted Aug 20th, 08 at 5:54 pm by pgans

Wow, it is nice to have a (semi) functioning sink again. I worked on the plumbing last night, but since the sink is quite a bit different than the old one I'm going to have to pick up some new PVC pipe. I did get the disposal to drain hooked up so I was able to test the supply lines. Plus I ran a...

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Paperstone Counters In (and backsplash)!

Posted Aug 5th, 08 at 12:00 pm by pgans

Well it's been a few days since I last posted but that's been because I've been spending every waking hour either at work or working on the kitchen. Our friends have went back to Washington so the progress will slow to a crawl during the week and then pick up on the weekends when I can work on it....

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Finshing Demo & 1st Cabinets In!

Posted Jul 31st, 08 at 8:52 am by pgans

Well over the weekend after our friends got back from their trip we finished up the demo. We took out now non-load bearing wall one stud at a time. It was a little scary considering it used to be load bearing, but all was well and there was zero sag. We went from this:

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Solar Tube and Drywall

Posted Jul 21st, 08 at 4:09 pm by pgans

Well we made some good progress at the end of last week. We took a mini-vacation with our friends this weekend and they are working elsewhere for a few days so not much going on in the next few days.

We installed the drywall, and put cables for undercabinet and under toekick lighting...

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