Before, During, and After Picture Gallery

After several months, I've finally built a web gallery showing nine primary views of our remodel from start to finish, highlighting some of the steps along the way, including demolition, framing, drywall, and finishing.
View the Before, During, and After Picture Gallery.

View from breakfast table

  

View inside the kitchen

  

The Bar

  

New living room look

  

Front Door Paint

 

The hood has arrived

We had a few complications, but the hood is now here, and it looks terrific! This was the last major piece to be installed in the kitchen. I think we can call this project DONE! 

New Bathroom

After all this time, I just realized that I hadn't included a picture of the new half bathroom. This is a shot of the vessel sink. We have a little nook for Shelli's koto.

This blog featured in Oregonian

Somebody discovered our blog and published a little snippet in the August 10 Oregonian. Read the OregonLive.com article. You have to scroll down to the headline that says "Blog offers a chance to remodel vicariously." Fun stuff!

In remodel news, the last major thing we are waiting for is to get the right-sized hood installed over the cooktop. It turns out that the tile needs to be a little wider, so Mosaik will fix that likely next week and then will install the hood. After that I'll snap some final "After" pictures for a "Before and After" look.

Let the unpacking begin

Now we can finally start getting rid of the boxes that we have not unpacked since May, 2005.

  

Open for business!

108 days after work started, we are ready to celebrate Independence Day with a working kitchen! There are still some minor details to complete, including replacing the hood that ended up being the wrong size, a handful of lighting details, a door, and some other stuff, but we are ready to start moving our kitchen stuff out of the basement and into the new kitchen.

  

Appliance day!

Refrigerator, ovens, dishwasher, cooktop, and hood went in today. Now, if only the dishwasher would actually work! For some reason it doesn't. Now we have to call KitchenAid.

  

Begone, Mystic Portals!

Today saw the END of our plastic barriers!

Upstairs

Downstairs

Pantry racks

Here's one instance where I actually installed something.

  

New doors installed

Over the last couple of weeks we've had Door Works installing new front doors. Not part of our original plan, but with all the other work going on we decided to replace the old drafty doors. Oh, and when the guy at Home Depot tells you "Sure, you can install your own doors. No sweat!" don't believe him! A professional from Door Works spent more than two full days installing these doors.

Bar nearly finished

What's left to do? Remove dust. Add booze.

 

Trim, stain and lacquer

The past several days have seen much work on the the trim. The carpenters installed and then the painters stained and lacquered the trim in place. The results are beautiful.

So THAT'S where all the cat food has been going.

This critter showed up in our temporary kitchen a minute ago. We heard the cat door open and shut, then heard "crunch, crunch, crunch" in the bathroom where the cat food is. We'd seen this guy poke his head in before but didn't think he'd have the cohones to chow down with us just a few feet away.
I snapped this picture after I chased him out of the bathroom. He stopped, stood up, went to the door, turned around, came back, and stood up again as if to say, "So, are you going to feed me or not? I haven't got all night."
Oops. I just had to get up and chase him out again. Had to block the cat door. Fred is going to have to ask to be let in and out until we get a ‘coon proof door set up.

Pandas - KEEP OUT

Bamboo flooring is in!

  

Bamboo floor installation begins

  

Oops!

The backsplash was a bit wide, so the tile folks came back and set things right. For some reason where they removed the tiles, it looks a little yucky! No worry, the drywall folks will come back and patch things up for us.

 

Countertop tile grout is in

Laminate countertops are also in, but they're covered with cardboard to protect them during the remaining finishing work. The green backsplash tile needs to be redone to reflect the 48" width in the plans. It's currently about 24" too wide. That will require some drywall rework and paintwork.

 

Construction Supervisor Fred

  

Tile counters and backsplash shaping up