We are currently working on the flooring in the kitchen so that we can begin to build some of the cabinets for the sink and for the range. In the mean time we have begun to draw out the concepts for both of the cabinet units. The first one that we were planning on building is the range unit. It will sit between the bathroom door and the door that goes into the laundry room and outside. We bought the lights/switchs/fan/corbels for this yesterday so we should be ready to go once the floor is complete. Kristen's goal is to get this done by Thanksgiving!
Here is a picture of the other wall where the sink is. The biggest thing here will be adding the windows to the wall. There is not that much room if we modify the windows to look like this so we probably will not have any overhead cabinets in this area. This unit still has quite a bit of work to go before it is complete but it is a good start. The brown thing on the left is supposed to represent the fridge unit.
Outlet in the bathroom…….oh yeah I did route a wire for the outlet in the bathroom. Now I just wonder where it is….Good thing Kristen has a good memory and we had taken pictures earlier when all of the wall was uncovered.
Here are some pictures of installing the tub and toilet in the bathroom. We knew when we took to original measurements that the tub was going to be a tight fit…and it was.
We brought it in place on wood blocks and then added the feet in place before lowering it down to the floor all while lining up the water and drain lines.
There was a bunch more room for the toilet to go in.
The temporary cabinet is just temporary but it should work until the fir cabinet gets built.
Here is a picture of the fir cabinet concept that we are looking at putting in.
Now that the downstairs bathroom is nearly done (just waiting for the cabinet) We have started to rip up the floor in the kitchen where there was just plywood. We bought a bunch of old fir flooring that is probably from the same time period as our house to splice into the existing fir floor.
Here is a picture showing all of the flooring lined up on the kitchen floor.
Here is a long string of pictures showing the slow progress of cutting back some of the existing flooring and plywood and putting the new (old) flooring down.
Should be able to finish laying it down this weekend on the other side so that we can sand it up to see how well the old matches the new (fingers crossed).
In the tv room upstairs, the baseboard was finished and all the trim sanded, filled, and painted. This was mostly due to Kristen's parents working while we were at work. There were lots of layers of old paint and holes. The worst part was the awful caulking job someone had done. After all the messy old caulking was removed, the window look so much better! You can see the old caulk in a couple of the pictures - it is all over the plastic window frames.
The tub was a challenge because it was such a tight fit. It was a process to move in place - pictures we may share later. We bought beautiful older looking hardware - fitting of our very old bathtub. Hooking up the sink And we have water! The cabinet is yet to be built - there is a temporary plywood box for now.
In part of the kitchen, there are fir floors like the rest of the house. There is also an L-shaped area that is just plywood. All of it was covered by a layer or two of linoleum and lots of glue. You can see in the picture below the line where the fir stops and the plywood begins.We removed the linoleum from the kitchen floor and will eventually be laying "new" flooring that we got from the Seattle ReStore. It may be difficult to integrate it with the existing floor but we'll tackle that when we get to it. There was way too much adhesive used so it took a lot of scraping to get all the paper backer off and the wood cleaned up some.
We now have a usable kitchen again! There were so many counters in the way that we had a narrow 2 foot wide path through our whole kitchen. While Kristen's parents were here, that changed. The island was cut out and two set of cabinets were removed to create a center island and lots of space around it. The dishwasher also got hooked up - after more than a year since its delivery in August 2009. It is not permanently in place but is functional.
On Friday we went to Seattle, first to the Space Needle, then walked to the Pike Place Market and around downtown. That night we went over to Jetty Island. There were quite a few kite boarders out enjoying the wind and warm temperature. This island can be seen from our house but is a three minute ferry ride from the marina.
We put the finishing touches on the baseboard. The top molding was glued on and held in place with some boards nailed into the board below. Then, the excess construction adhesive was cleaned off, the bottom piece was added, and the joints were caulked. It was all painted and then silicone caulking went around the top next to the tiles.
We bought beautiful older looking hardware - fitting of our very old bathtub.
Hooking up the sink
And we have water! The cabinet is yet to be built - there is a temporary plywood box for now.
We removed the linoleum from the kitchen floor and will eventually be laying "new" flooring that we got from the Seattle ReStore. It may be difficult to integrate it with the existing floor but we'll tackle that when we get to it.
There was way too much adhesive used so it took a lot of scraping to get all the paper backer off and the wood cleaned up some.
The dishwasher also got hooked up - after more than a year since its delivery in August 2009. It is not permanently in place but is functional.
That night we went over to Jetty Island. There were quite a few kite boarders out enjoying the wind and warm temperature. This island can be seen from our house but is a three minute ferry ride from the marina.
