Monthly Archive for June 2010
floor excavation
Today I took up a section of my kitchen floor. Partially to find out how hard it would be (short answer= HARD), partially because I wanted to feel like I was making progress, since all this planning with no action has finally gotten to me, and partially because I was just bored. Note – bored Jill is dangerous, destructive impulses appear and get followed instead of ignored. Anyway, I’m calling this an excavation because I got to see the history of the floor in all the different layers of linoleum.
planning a kitchen remodel
The kitchen is a pretty big project. I’m a confident DIY kind of person, but even so, this is a big project. So there’s a lot of planning happening at the moment. I’m sorting out what order everything will happen in, what I can do myself and what I need to hire out, talking to contractors, setting up the budget, and generally obsessing over details.
the kitchen arrives
So, last I wrote, I had a door front and 14 packs of knobs. Now my basement man cave (really just an empty room, but that’s what we’ve been calling it) looks like this:
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