Inbetween

Here's what it looked like on Tuesday night. A few sheets of drywall and so long to the nasty gaping holes on the walls.

Here, Angela's dad has also laid some cement over the floor—I spent until 11pm the previous night scraping crap off to get down to the bottom layer. The next day, he laid new porcelain tiles.

Change of plans

Turns out the old countertop didn't fit the space to hold as a temporary surface. (We changed the wall depth and floor height enough that the measurements are all different.) So the guys (Gus, our contractor, and the plumber he brought on) built a temporary counter so the sink and faucet will hold until the real counter comes in. These guys do really meticulous, good work.

Things will remain more or less the same for the next few weeks—until the new cabinet doors and trim arrive and countertop is installed. In the meantime, we can complete the painting.

A small step for the contractor, a leap toward living normal again

The cabinets went in yesterday (mostly). There are a few doors and trim left to install, but they're on back order and will take a few weeks to arrive. And the old countertop was replace until the new one is installed, which also won't be for another three weeks.

So the whole kitchen reno project will probably take until the end of the month to complete, but there's still lots to do on our end: finish painting the ceiling, walls and trim. Put in the backsplash. There's some new lighting that needs to be installed (after we paint). We've updated the workback schedule and created a priority list of what tasks need to be completed in which order. It's a relatively complex project that requires lots of little decisions to be made on the fly.

But with the old countertop in place, we can put some of the appliances back into the kitchen and have partial use of the room until everything is in place.

Some new pics will follow.