I’m Back! With Betty Crocker Review

After an excessively long hiatus, I’m finally back!  Granted, the kitchen still isn’t completely done, but it’s close.  We had a bit of delay waiting for lights.  I had to cancel our original order and get them elsewhere.  They are being installed on Friday.  Some additional finishing touches will finally get done then too.  Then [...]

The Walls Go Back Up

We now have more of a wall for where the counter/bar is going.  This divides the kitchen from the livingroom and the dining area (where the fridge currently is).

 

 

Since I took these, the drywall guy has been back to fix the seams and also to add a texture coating on the ceiling.  That disguises the [...]

So Much Depends Upon a Red Wheelbarrow

so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens 
Okay, so it isn’t glazed in rain water, nor do we have white chickens.  But it is a red wheelbarrow in the middle of what was once our kitchen.  This was halfway through Monday of week 2. The floor has been torn up.  All the cabinets are down.  The [...]

And the Walls Come Tumbling Down…

As I think I mentioned, the wall between the kitchen and living room was a load-bearing wall.  Therefore, we couldn’t just knock it down.  Brian figured out all about floating some giant beam in the attic and attaching it to something up there.  Don’t really know the specifics – all I cared about was that he actually did get [...]

The Chaos Begins

So here’s what my kitchen looked after Day 1:
            
It was a bit of a disaster, but it’s only going to get worse.  But it will be all worth it when I have a real kitchen to cook in. 
I managed dinner of leftover chicken turned into tacos.  Heated the chicken in the [...]

Cooking Without A Kitchen

The next month should be interesting.  And fun.  We are remodeling our kitchen, and demolition starts tomorrow.  The kitchen is tiny; the counter space is nearly non-existent; the layout is terrible; and it’s ugly.  On top of all that, it feels very isolated from the rest of the living spaces in the house.  We like [...]