Kitchen Reno: Week 3 – Humpty Dumpty Sat on (Dry)Wall

For the past two weeks I've lamented long and loud about construction dust. Well. I’m here to tell you that demolition dust has nothing on drywall dust. Sticky, gritty and pervasive. It’s everywhere and it’s nasty. Luckily there’s only one more day to go for this phase of the project.

Things are coming together nicely. As you’ll see in the photos on the next page (click Read More below) our kitchen once again looks like a finished room (ok, partially finished) rather than a ramshackle old barn on the verge of falling down. Here’s a rundown of this week’s work:

• Exterior stucco repair around the new windows
  
• Re-routing the space pak tubes that provide our central air conditioning and build-out of a soffit to hold them in place
  
• Insulation
  
• Drywall
  
• And a new archway between the kitchen and dining room which replaces the old swinging door
  

The crew has also removed the oh-so-attractive dropped ceilings in a hallway and powder room near the kitchen. We are NEVER going to take on a project like this again, so figured we might as well get it all taken care of at the same time.

Please continue to the next page for photos and a preview of Week 4 activities. 

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The coming week’s work includes installation of a hardwood floor and delivery of the new cabinets. We’re super-excited to see the cabinets as we’ve made some non-traditional color choices, with a warm medium-brown wood for the majority and slate blue/gray painted wood for the upper cabinets and an accent piece or two. I sure hope we like this combo as much in person as we did during the materials-selection phase! 

Tune in again in a few days for another renovation update. I'm wishing you (and me) a dust-free week!