We're living in a construction zone right now - the kitchen is largely unusable. Making a huge mess right now, but it'll be worth it. But I've managed to make dinner using one burner on the stove, the oven, and the grill. Hooray, for the grill! A quick reminder of how our kitchen looked when we bought the house:
And then how it looked after we took down the wallpaper and wainscoting:
While defrosting our deep freezer a couple of weeks ago, I pulled out a tape measure and started measuring cabinets and the fridge. The result: We're moving the fridge to the wall next to the closet, and putting in a low cabinet where the fridge was. In the first picture above, you see a wine rack under the window - that's where we keep our deep freezer now (after a power failure in the basement caused us to lose the entire contents of the freezer a couple of years ago). So we'll build a box for that, with the cabinet/counter next to it. It'll open up the window, maybe give us a bit more light. And we lose less cabinet/counter in the move. So here's how it looks with the hole.
Our cabinets are custom oak. They were built on the wall. So the hole had to be cut on the wall. Now we're redoing the wiring, both for the fridge (getting its own circuit) and some outlets for the counter. GFCIs, of course. The "pressed paperboard" duct hiding behind the cardboard stapled to the wall has been removed and we're putting in a new one. Respirators and air filters and plastic sheeting were involved in the removal, just in case.
We're still working on making some decisions (floor, paint colors, etc.), but we're making progress, and I'm starting to have fun!
