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Updating a truly hideous kitchen in our otherwise lovely 1890s home...

The goal is a kitchen that will blend into our 115+ year old house without breaking the bank.
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I have a working sink once more!

Posted Mar 23rd, 09 at 8:25 pm by runpdx (Baby Ben needs a new kitchen)
Whew...it took much longer than expected yesterday. (To be fair, we were a bit distracted by the March Madness fun over the weekend.) But, finally, we got the single Domsjo put in.

Thanks goodness for this site because we tried for a good 20 minutes to install the Atlant drain with...
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Progress!

Posted Mar 10th, 09 at 6:35 pm by runpdx (Baby Ben needs a new kitchen)
Well, I have not been nearly as good at updating this blog as I had hoped. But between starting a new job, demoing and installing the kitchen, and trying to keep Ben happy and entertained, I just haven't had much spare time.

Anyway, the cabinets are hung. Overall it was a great success...
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Demo pictures

Posted Feb 18th, 09 at 12:51 pm by runpdx (Baby Ben needs a new kitchen)
Whew...we had a busy Valentine's Day weekend! Friday we ripped out the old cabinets. What a great feeling that was! Here's a pic to demo how hideous the old counters and cabs were!

We found...
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Before the dust settles (or gets kicked up, rather)

Posted Feb 2nd, 09 at 4:54 pm by runpdx (Baby Ben needs a new kitchen)
OK...Well I'm starting a kitchen blog. Hopefully it will help someone else who stumbles upon it as other blogs have been helping me.

Here's the background info on us and our kitchen project:

My name is Anne and my husband is Dan. We bought our home 5 years ago while I was...
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