You guys. Turns out, getting parts of your kitchen remodeled (and then repeatedly walking in and out of said room) is better than waking up to check your stocking or Easter basket or Valentine envelope or birthday table pile (what?) in terms of Immediate Gratification Awesome Feelings.
Let's review what we had been working with:
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| Man oh man, those cabinets are purty. That counter is a little wonky, though. Can we get a close-up? |
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| Yup, that sure is an impossible-to-remove stain. Boy, that must've been a joy to live with! |
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| I can't stop staring at those rad cabinets! But there sure is a lot of that fugly countertop, huh? |
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| Warped, stained, unevenly seamed Formica. Let's hear some offers, boys! |
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| Yeah, it's over there too, offending my coffee maker. |
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Peej had been fully prepared to use the jaws of life to remove the counters.
Turns out, it's super easy to remove a counter if it's never been attached to anything, ever. |
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Anyone need a die? Some shelf liner? How about a flat razor?
(What kind of establishment have we stumbled upon?) |
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P.J. uses a power saw in the kitchen. Sure, he'll chase loud teens from our lawn and threaten
car alarms in his boxers, but a sawing in the kitchen at 9pm? The girls'll be fine. (They were.) |
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P.J. was pleased/dismayed to find how easy sink removal was.
Because the sink had never been bracketed or attached to our flimsy Formica.
Our cast iron sink was just hanging out on old particle board. Hooray!
(Also, Peej is wearing my Dad's flannel and it makes me wicked happy.) |
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Yesterday morning, guys from The Home Depot showed up and saw that P.J. had left some nice, neat
holes just right for new quartz countertops to fit atop of. So here's what they left us. (A shiny sink, too!) |
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| Hey there, pretty lady. |
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| It's so clean and sturdy and looks like a real kitchen where people could even live and prepare food! |
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| Here is where there was oh-so-recently a stained countertop. It is no longer. |
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| Let's be in love forever. |
Next up: Backsplash! Water re-connection!
And that fun moment where I never let anyone use the kitchen ever again.
10 comments:
"Let's be in love forever" - hahahaha!!
P.J.'s face is priceless in the picture where the counter top just magically lifts off. I can just hear him . . . "Really? I was going to use the jaws of life, dangit!"
Ps. Your kitchen is gorgeous! That was so smart to repurpose the existing cupboards rather than just buy all new ones. Thrifty, very thrifty! And green too!
Yay! We have quartz countertops too!
When remodeling my mom's house we found all sorts of treasures in the walls, like Jack-in-the-Box drink cups, beer cans, razors (what is it with razors?!), a Playboy magazine, and random chicken bones. Behind her old medicine cabinet was the leftover wallpaper from the other bathroom (because the garbage can was too far?) Anyhow, it looks AMAZING!!! Yay!
I am so happy for you guys for so many reasons. I LOVE PJ in dad's flannel shirt, I LOVE his knee pads. I LOVE that the girls did not wake up even though electric saws were used. I ABSOLUTELY love your reflection in the counter tops. Stølat!!
I'm in a relationship with my counters and it's complicated.
He was definitely bummed he didn't get to bring out the artillery.
Countertop twins!
Isn't it bizarre what people shove behind things? That's a weird question I just typed.
That's a lot of love, mama. I accept.
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