Loving The Life and Times In Lebanon , Connecticut
Here is the story as I remember it...
Her - Hey did you see that the faucet is dripping ?
Me - "Yup"
Her - Can we fix it?
Me - Yup... but I hate that faucet, I'll just buy another to replace it this week and while we are there maybe we should look at a sink to replace that old piece of junk that is in there now...
Her - Yeh, maybe we can just take a "look".
Then it happened, you all know the look !
As we were walking past the display kitchens on our way to look at "sinks" , she blurts it out !
" Hey honey, ya know I would really like to put in one of those nice Corian "double sinked" countertops instead !
Me - "Yes Dear"
As you can see the kitchen is now a work in progress and it happened so fast that I forgot to take any "Before" photos.
Materials I removed from the walls include 2 layers of wood laminate paneling with the latest layer being some crappy looking Home Depot kitchen panels that were very poorly installed. Then I removed old plaster and sheetrock with 3 layers of wallpaper on them. The walls are almost ready for new sheetrock.
Then I moved on to the ceiling which was tiled in that old 1 x 1 ft square accoustic stuff. Thinking that the ceiling tiles were only stapled , I intended only to get back to the horse hair plaster surface , repair it and paint it. Once I saw the tiles were also glued and 2 patches of plaster were loose I made the decision to demo out the plaster ceiling and sheetrock it.
After the demo job I realized that by the design of the house that we could easily raise the ceiling height in this room. I knew this kitchen was part of the original house in 1850, but I could never understand just how they added on to it. What they did was build an entire new roof over the existing old roof. It was a strange way to do it but now I would call it an accidental stroke of genius !
Now we can raise the ceiling higher !
Step 1. Remove plaster
and old sheetrock...
Step 2. Continue removing plaster and old sheetrock...
Step 3. Recruit your Dad to help !
Down to the old beams and wiring.
Beams removed, new joists and recessed lighting added and its now ready for insulation and sheetrock.
More to come...stay tuned !
Here is the original roofing of kitchen with the bark still on the joists and roofing planks...
SIDE VIEW OF ROOM LAYOUT
Insulated and sheetrocked, we are in cruise control now !
For the end peaks of the ceiling we went with the tongue and groove cedar planking. The colors have been chosen for the walls and we bought the ceiling fan and the lighting for over the sink area.
There is a lot more work to do but so far its more then we ever imagined it could be !!
... How we turned
into
Hells Kitchen
Kel's Kitchen
