The Kitchen is DONE

We finally wrapped up the kitchen project (99% anyway).  We are absolutely in love with it.  It has been heaven to use it every day.  I feel so lucky we had the skills to get this all done ourselves.

We put in some pretty neat strip power outlets under all of the upper cabinets.  We also put in strip LED lighting.  It's really great to leave the under cabinet lights on in the evening to provide a glow in the room without every recessed light being on.

 

After we put the crown molding on, it was quite a relief to see everything come to a close.  We still need to do a back splash but I think the kitchen looks and functions perfectly fine without one for now.  That is the only thing!  Whoo hoo!

I do have my eye on this tile as a potential back splash, but I need to order a sample before I commit to anything.  I love the look of cement tiles, but they are very expensive.  This one has the look but it ceramic.  I originally wanted a subway tile but I'm feeling like that might be too boring.  No rush to decide.

Here's a link to what the kitchen looked like before our remodel if you wanted to see that again.  It's come a long way!

We've Really Slowed Down... But Still Finishing Up That Kitchen

So since the kitchen is totally functional and pretty amazing, we have totally slowed down.  We are close to done, but just a little left to do.

On the to do list is just:

• attach cabinet toe kicks
• add door trim and baseboards
• install crown above cabinets
• finish installing the under cabinet LED lighting strips
• finish installing power outlet on island 
• choose and install a back splash of some sort
• and soooome day we will open up the wall between the living room and kitchen to make a bar top, but no rush on that.

We finally put all the pulls on (except one, can you find it?).  The under cabinet trim pieces were put on as well.

The drawer for recycling in the island is up and running.  What a convenience!  This originally was designed to house our trash, but we like our old trash can that we operate with our foot and it has a nice location too.  This was a welcome change of plan.

Every upper cabinet has these awesome power strips under them instead of a socket in the back splash.  We bought different lengths depending on the cabinet it went under.  We did a little outlet overkill, but that's ok.  It's better to have too many than not enough where you need it.  Plus they are hidden, so why not?

Also the dishwasher is so cool with the built-in door panel attached.  So fancy.  ;)

I love having my little breakfast bar area for cooking bagels and making my daily iced caramel macchiatto!  These two items used to take up the entire counter in the last kitchen.  So, it's nice having their own area off to the side.

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No More Slab holes in the the Kitchen

So the Grand Canyon in our kitchen...

...has been filled.  The giganitc drain pipe is neatly in the wall now, along with its friends, hot and cold.  The electrical has been run and the old pipes were insulated properly so the cement was poured.  Now the only thing sticking out of the ground is our electricity for the island.  Exciting!
 

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All the Pipes are OUT and the Island Electrical is IN!

So over this past week Brian capped the hot and cold water pipes that were still sticking out of the ground from where the washing machine used to be.

 It is really exciting seeing no more pipes or barriers sticking up in the middle of the room!

Island Electrical
Today Brian did some more jack hammering to add an electrical box for our island.  He was worried this would be a lot of extra work but he powered through it just in one afternoon.  He also ran the conduit for the electrical and placed the box.

Fancy!

Some Less Exciting, but Important Details

Brian installed the plumbing for the refrigerator water supply.  Here is that exciting addition.  We've never had water to our refrigerator before.

One of our friends came over this weekend who is an electrician and started the majority of the electrical work.  All of the outlets are in and the wha-cha-ma-call-its (that's the technical term) to run power to under cabinet outlets once the cabinets are actually up.

Also the gas line was installed for the new location of the oven.

We are getting closer and closer to getting the walls back up!