Thursday, February 05, 2009

It's Just Like Camping in Helen's Kitchen

This is a picture of one of the tiles we are having glued into the corian backsplash. We thought the mother otter and her baby were sweet and a typical scene along the California coast.
The cabinets are in and the corian counter top is being installed here. The white squares along the backsplash are for the five tiles we are having glued in. They are scenes from California.
Our "camping kitchen" also doubles as Dory's bedroom. She doesn't mind sleeping in the "kitchen"!
We even had a new window installed where there was a blank wall before. There is now so much more light in the family room! It's amazing!

On January 12, the demolition crew came in and started their work on our kitchen and family room. All the cabinets, counter tops and flooring were taken out. . . . making way for all new. We moved our "camping kitchen" into our downstairs bedroom and laundry room. We have been enjoying MANY crockpot meals during our kitchen renovation. This is the end of week 4 without a functioning kitchen and I have to admit, it's gone pretty smoothly. On Monday, a cork floor is being installed in the kitchen and family room. Then the only thing left to do is have the appliances installed. We can't wait! More pictures will follow when it is completed.

4 comments:

Megan said...

It is looking great already. I can't wait to see the pictures of it when it is all finished. I am very impressed that you are still cooking at home and not just eating out every night. I'm sure that takes some extra planning to figure out how to work without a full kitchen.

James B. Finlay said...

The kitchen looks awesome. That is exciting to have such big changes going on. I bet Dorie will be excited to have her room back.

Margaret Finlay said...

I can't believe that OSHA hasn't shut you down with Dory's bed in the "kitchen". The kitchen looks great - it will be so fun to do all of you cooking in a new place.

Unknown said...

Mom the kitchen looks great! I cannot wait until it is all done so you can make me monster cookies! :)