Stove Finally Put In!

The stove finally went in last Friday. Missed thanksgiving by a day but we ended up cooking it on Sunday. The last couple things that needed to happen to get the stove in was to cut a hole in the ceiling and route the vent line through it. This also means that the fan had to get hooked up upstairs. I still have to complete the final routing upstairs, right now it just vents into the storage room above the kitchen.

 

Once the vent was put in place it was time to put up the hood. This just sits on top and is toe-screwed in place.

A piece of trim was cut to cover the bottom and where the screws went though. You can see in the second picture the trim getting the same hammered copper paint that the rest of the hood has.

Here you can see the stove in place. In this picture it is still sitting on a couple of 2x4's because this is the lowest that we could get it with the lift we have. We had to use a 2x6 as a lever to lift it off the blocks and to set the legs to the correct height.

A trim piece was also made for the top of the hood to close out to the ceiling. Here you can see thanksgiving turkey sitting on the stove. 

 

 We are still waiting on a couple of hinges to finish up the door on the right. We will be working on the little stuff for a while now. This includes trimming the doors, building drawers, putting in door stops, putting on handles/knobs, etc.

Tiling the stove backsplash

 This is the tiling work that has been going on for the last couple of weeks on the back of the stove surround. We decided to just do plain tiles in a herringbone pattern over everything. This picture shows me working on one of the sides. Unfortunately, due to the fact that there is a shelf I have to start tiling almost in the center of the wall. Just a couple of blocks to hold things up and some lines to provide marks.

Here you can see the tape that is used to hold up the pieces that are tiled down.

And working on the other side. This side has some more harder cuts because it has the outlet on it.

Here are the finished pictures after it has been grouted.

You can see the hole for the vent in the top in this picture.

All of the tiles are tavertine marble so it is from old sea creatures. You can see in a couple of spots actual shells.

Building and Tiling the Shelf

We started working on tiling the backspash of the stove unit. Right along the back is a small shelf that is only about 4 inches deep. It was built up out of plywood.

We found some decotive tiles to place along the front of the shelf. We have decided to have this as the only ornamentation on the back wall. It looks quite good with the lights hitting it at a glancing angle.

A bullnose piece was used on the top corner and a full tile was used on the top.

 Here is a picture with the whole shelf done. Now it just time to start tiling the whole back and sides.

 

Snow Storm!

 It has been quite cold here the last couple of days and we had a pretty good snow all day yesterday. The first of the snow melted on the ground but then it started to stick. By this morning we had about 4" on the ground.

 Not much snow for Maine but it is a lot for the Seattle area where there are no plows. Luckily we trimmed up and put down all of the garden beds the night before. The flowers in the planters were replaced with small evergreens.

The lights on the steps also look nice with a little snow cover.

Work on the top hood

Now that most of the bottom of the unit is complete we have started building the hood that goes on top. The basic frame of the hood is made of plywood. Here you can see an early view when we just put it up on top to look at the proportions.

 

Back on the ground we added a top plywood piece and the corner pieces.

The skin is done in 1/2" bendable plywood. Here you can see the hood with one of the sides put on.

The front is almost done...only one more panel to go.

Here is the hood completely skinned and sanded in all of the corners where the two sides meet.

Another test fit on top of the unit to scribe the back portion to the wall to get cut.

We were originally thinking that we were going to paint the top unit the same green as the bottom. But, after seeing it resting in place we thought it would be good to bring in another color. The chosen color is copper. In an effort to make the unit look more like copper we placed some strips on the face with furniture brads. The idea of this is to make it look like a standing seam with rivets. In the picture you can see placing the strips on the first side.

 

Here you can see the whole unit done with the strips. You can also see some sample paints put on it.

 

Here you can see the unit getting primed.

 And the final copper coat put on. The paint turns out really cool and looks like hammered copper but it is very hard to paint because it skins over really fast and starts to separate.

Here are three pictures showing the same corner as wood, primer and copper.

Painting up in the bathroom

We took a quick break from working on the stove unit to hang a painting up in the downstairs bathroom. It is a little hard to get a good view of the painting because the bathroom is too small for our camera to capture it when we are in there. The green thing in the tub is one of our plants (we were watering).

Ceiling of Range unit

The ceiling over the range unit is tiled while it is upside down on the bottom. The tile that we chose for this is a tavertine marble. It is much more difficult to cut then just the plan ceramic tile but the result came out well.

Here the unit is after it has been grouted. We chose a darker grout to make the tiles stand out a little more.

Countertops on the Range unit

The counter tops for both sides of the range unit had been rough cut to size but still required squaring of the edge, adding an edge profile and applying a finish. The first thing that we looked at were four different edge profiles. You can see in the following four pictures the profiles that we looked at.

We used these samples to look at four different finish colors. All of them are danish oil and are actually different. The colors are Natural, Fruitwood, Cherry and Mahogany. 

Here you can see some pictures of the two counter tops edged, oiled and installed. they are held in place with washerhead screws in slots on the underside.