Matt's sister came up over Thanksgiving weekend to help on the house.
Can't you see the family resemblance?! We were thrilled to see her, and Sam was especially so.
We decided that the first order of business was the kitchen cabinets. The goal was to get the kitchen done before we moved in. So, off to work we went.
The before:
We wanted to remove this top right kitchen cabinet that divided the kitchen area and the dining room. It made the kitchen dark and cramped and it also closed off the dining room. We decided that if we took it down, it would open the space up and make it lighter.
With the cabinet doors off, we knocked out the wall-board covering the soffit.
We thought this job would be complete in an hour or two. How hard can it be to pull some cabinets from the ceiling, right?
So, off to work.
Matt had a plan of how to separate the cabinets so as to easily get it down while not damaging the existing cabinets that we want to keep and refinish. The cabinet builders from 1959, however, had a different plan. They decided to use a gazillion long nails in all the tightest, littlest places they could find so as to discourage any future modification. It turned into a battle of wills and crowbars.
Just so you know, iron wills and crowbars ALWAYS win. It took about 20 man hours for us to get this cabinet down, but it came down. After the crowbars had loosened everything up, I got up on the counter and kicked. that. cabinet. down.
If only we had caught that on camera! Alas, everyone else was on the floor catching the falling cabinet.
We do, however, have pictures of the aftermath.
The warriors and their spoil
The vanquished foe
The battle scars
The victory shot
This kitchen will live to see more battles, certainly. But for now, score 1 for us!
Can't you see the family resemblance?! We were thrilled to see her, and Sam was especially so.We decided that the first order of business was the kitchen cabinets. The goal was to get the kitchen done before we moved in. So, off to work we went.
The before:
We wanted to remove this top right kitchen cabinet that divided the kitchen area and the dining room. It made the kitchen dark and cramped and it also closed off the dining room. We decided that if we took it down, it would open the space up and make it lighter.With the cabinet doors off, we knocked out the wall-board covering the soffit.
We thought this job would be complete in an hour or two. How hard can it be to pull some cabinets from the ceiling, right?
So, off to work.
Matt had a plan of how to separate the cabinets so as to easily get it down while not damaging the existing cabinets that we want to keep and refinish. The cabinet builders from 1959, however, had a different plan. They decided to use a gazillion long nails in all the tightest, littlest places they could find so as to discourage any future modification. It turned into a battle of wills and crowbars.
Just so you know, iron wills and crowbars ALWAYS win. It took about 20 man hours for us to get this cabinet down, but it came down. After the crowbars had loosened everything up, I got up on the counter and kicked. that. cabinet. down.
If only we had caught that on camera! Alas, everyone else was on the floor catching the falling cabinet.
We do, however, have pictures of the aftermath.
The warriors and their spoil
The vanquished foe
The battle scars
The victory shot
This kitchen will live to see more battles, certainly. But for now, score 1 for us!
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