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Kitchen Remodel Part #2

May 13, 2014 by Margaret 4 Comments

When the island was complete and looked so great we were anxious, but nervous to start the next step, the stove wall. Because we were reusing most of the existing cabinets, to tackle this wall meant taking apart basically the rest of the kitchen and still be able to function in it.

There was a lot more demolition, wiring and so on in this portion. John moved plugs and wired so we could have lights above as well as under the counter. We hung onto the stove for as long as possible, it was going to be replaced by a counter top stove and a double wall oven. This part of the project started in August and the goal was to have it completed and ready to cook Thanksgiving dinner.

Along with the cabinets from the kitchen we were able to use the cabinets taken from the master bath a couple of years before. They were the same size style and height. We did have to construct a few new cabinets as well. A Cabinet to house the new bigger hood, the wall ovens and a small shelf by the sliding glass door, just for decor. We refinished the old cabinets and finished the

new ones using a wonderful product called

Rust-Oleum Cabinet Transformations. It was so easy to use and did a beautiful job.

I think the hardest decision we had was the back splash. We tossed so many ideas around but none of them seemed to be just right. Then John came home from a doctor visit and said, “I saw this great idea in a magazine in the doctors office. What about bead board?” It was the perfect answer. It gave us that bit of country look and we had already used it on the island. We found our back splash.

It was close but we accomplished our goal. The granite counter top was installed the week before Thanksgiving and the wall ovens the Saturday before.

This project took a lot of time but well worth it.

I love every inch of my new kitchen and am looking forward to the final wall to be finished.

That will be coming soon.

Mary Ellen

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Painted Floor Tutorial

August 30, 2013 by Margaret 2 Comments

What do you do when your cat gets sick
all over your light colored carpet while
you’re on vacation and stains it?

Well this happened to us. We didn’t want to re-carpet and couldn’t really afford the wood floor, that will eventually come, so we ripped out the carpet and painted the floor. Now this was not a new concept in our family we did it once before in another house.

In the last house it was a cement floor, this time it was just the plywood floor that seems to be under every carpet. In the planning of this project I looked and looked for some help and didn’t find much all in one place, thus this tutorial to maybe help others.

We enjoy our floor and hope this will help you.

Mary Ellen

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Other things you might enjoy:

Memo Board

Loaded Twice Baked Potatoes

DYI Message Center

August 23, 2013 by Margaret 5 Comments

DIY

In my kitchen/great room I had this small quite useless set of shelves. They were really to small for most books and ended up collecting whatever.

In the process of remodeling my kitchen (which will be another post) I decided that I was tired of this space and my husband and I came up with the idea of

“Message Center”.

John really dislikes magnets and other stuff on the refrigerator, so it had to be magnetic and I thought

it would be fun to have a chalkboard.

We decided to combined the two.

He carefully removed the shelves and patched up any holes, made a list and went to “Home Depot” (his favorite store).

The magnetic chalkboard was easy. We bought a large piece of sheet metal trimmed it to size and spray painted it with black chalkboard paint, (Rust-o-leum, they have great stuff). We glued it on the wall and framed it with small molding. Above and below the chalkboard John covered the walls with Bead Board. We found some great black iron baskets and hung them on the wall to hold coupons, magazines, etc. to keep them from collecting on the counters.

We found this great word art sign on our Seaside,OR weekend, and hung it in the empty spot at the top. It fits our family and gave the finishing touches. Oh, I can’t forget, the space on the floor is the perfect size for the cat’s water and food dishes.