Friday May 28 Day 54

 End of week 11 update.

Steve the painter was around most of the week doing some painting and lots of prep work. We decided to paint the laundry/garage door dark after seeing how dirty it has looked with the workers going in and out these past months. I love it. The walls are not painted yet but will be a light shade of gray.

There was a little problem with the utility bath countertop and Jen, the designer stopped in today to discuss. The top has an overhang which she designed to have cut always for the door molding and be the same on the other side. At first it seemed a little strange but I think now it is all worked out.

The backsplash over the bar is finished after an almost design error. I was out and the installer planned on putting it up in a vertical pattern instead of horizontal because it wasn’t spelled out in the designers plan. Luckily I saw it laid out and corrected before he cut anything. 

The finished result looks good. 

The appliances were delivered on Thursday and hopefully we will be able to get them installed sometime next week. The quick oven and the dryer are still on backorder.

Being that it is the Memorial Day weekend all but Steve the painter left early on Friday and won’t return until Tuesday. But we have nice weather to look forward to and 3 days of golf set up with friends.

Tuesday May 25 Day 51

 No big changes today. The painter is here working on trim and moldings. The dry wall guy came in and fixed a few spots where changes had been made and the electrician moved the switch boxes up in the two bathrooms as with the higher countertops they would have been under the backsplash.

Monday May 24 week 11 Day 50

Monday morning the countertops arrived and are installed in all but the powder room. What a difference it makes.  Unfortunately the windows are delayed and that will mean the kitchen areas will not be able to be finished until they do arrive. 

The island is huge but we love it!

Part of the hold up is the garden window which is to be replaced

Pano shot of the laundry room

Pano shot of the whole kitchen

Installation of the coffee/wine bar countertop

Finished look of bar area

Week 10 Friday Day 49 End of week report

 Wednesday the foyer work continued with the laying of the Durock material in preparation for the slate.

Wednesday,Thursday, and Friday Matt the carpenter and his Dad, Rob Steinecker continued finish work on the cabinets in both the laundry room and kitchen adding the crown moldings and baseboards, and putting all of the knobs and handles on the cabinets. 

                                   It was a good week but not a lot to show a difference in pictures yet. 

Laundry room

Laundry room back half bath

Week 10 Day 46 May18

 This morning the same 2 young men show up and begin the task of removing the foyer floor with the glue on top. This floor was nailed down and they are having a hard time removing the wood and nails. They are not nearly as friendly as they were yesterday. This is hard work. And as I later find out is even leaving wood and dust debris in the basement under the foyer. Yuck! But by the end of the day the foyer floor is definitely the original sub floor and will be ready for the tile installation. Meanwhile the carpenter has been continuing work in the laundry room. All of the upper cabinets are in place and he has started the floor moldings.

Week 10 May 17 Day 45

 Another week begins with carpenters showing up to finish hanging cabinets in the laundry room and surprise...demo of foyer floor begins. Two young men started prying up the parquet flooring which appeared to be glued down.  By the end of the day this is what our foyer floor looked like.

Not a good look.I could tell this was not the sub floor and that another layer needed to be removed. Steve sent a picture to Nick and his response was that they were not finished with the demo yet. 

May 13. The out of town update Week 9 Day 43

 So as I last published on May 3 and it is now 10 days later we are at week 9 and day 44 of the remodel. We left on May 5 to drive to Boston for Sophia’s first Birthday and my 70th. We had a great time and didn’t think about what was going on back in our kitchen. It was especially nice to use Jessica’s kitchen and make some of the things we have been missing these past months. Mainly pasta! We went out to CK Pearl restaurant in Essex, Mass. for Mother’s Day brunch with Sophia and she was a charmer in the restaurant and a very good brunch companion...meaning she sat in the kid chair while we ate and she had her own lunch. She is very interested in people watching. Maybe because of covid she has not been out much to see the world outside her home. That will change.

But back to the kitchen. Unfortunately we are now into the little changes with not much visual change. The laundry room floor was tiled and the lower cabinets were set. The countertop measurements were taken on Monday, May 10 so we expect them to be ready for installation in about 2 weeks. This week we have a finish carpenter working on moldings around doorways and windows. We were informed that our contractor lost a tiler so he is delaying the foyer floor by a week or so. In a way that isn’t so bad because it is less disruption around the house. We are still hopeful to be near completion by the end of June.

Just a few update pictures since there really isn’t much to show that is different.

Laundry room floor and lower cabinets 

Oh yes! My kitchen farm sink is in too.

May 3 week 8 day 35

 Today was a disappointment because the kitchen carpenters had another job that they had to complete a punch list on and it ended up taking them the whole day. We had one guy spent about two hours putting the frame molding around the doorways and so no real progress to see and since the island isn’t completed no counter top measurements will get to be taken until next week. The first day where I feel progress should have been made and it wasn’t. 

Thursday April 29 Day 33 week 7

 More work on the the cabinets today and starting to set the island. The laundry room and half bathroom are ready to be tiled.

April 28 week 7 day 32

 By the end of today it is really starting to look like a kitchen again. Rob and his son have completed much of the wall cupboards and began placing the island cupboards. It is slower work than I imagined but I am excited to see the cupboards out of their boxes.

The coffee /bar area cupboard colors

The wall cupboards still don’t have doors but getting a feel for the area.