Saturday 10 December 2011

Kitchen Renovation - After Pictures

The renovation is 95% complete. We are left with those miscellaneous odds and ends that no one wants to claim responsibility for, and of course there is the floor that will need to be sanded down to bare wood, stained, buffed and varnished ALL OVER AGAIN.  More on that later.  For now, here are the before & after photos.


You can see we had to keep the opening on the left and right side of the photos the same.  The kitchen spans the entire width.
  

The cooking and refrigeration side.

This shows the drastic change we made.  The wall in the before photos has been torn down.  The window on the far left is the same window.



Another before photo.  The window is in the same place in the before photo as they are after the renovation.








The stove in this before photos is in the same position, but stove itself is brand new.


The beverage centre is home to the beer and wine fridge, coffee machine and breakfast food.
 Here is the before..


And the after...


Another before and after...the dishwasher are almost in the same position as before. Only now we have two.


Before...
And after...



Thursday 1 December 2011

Kitchen Renovation - Cabinets

The cabinets were being installed on site, at our house. The cabinet guy says this is not how they normally  do things.  But they were rushed to get the cabinets in, so they could get the counters measured and installed and thing could go at a faster pace.

So that meant the cabinet frames came, and the pieces were being installed one by one are our house.  This was a long, long, long process.

I think the cabinet makers were here for three weeks.  It was pretty boring to chronicle each door frame being installed and each door handle being screwed in, so here are a few during, for the final touches have been added.







Saturday 10 December 2011

Kitchen Renovation - After Pictures

The renovation is 95% complete. We are left with those miscellaneous odds and ends that no one wants to claim responsibility for, and of course there is the floor that will need to be sanded down to bare wood, stained, buffed and varnished ALL OVER AGAIN.  More on that later.  For now, here are the before & after photos.


You can see we had to keep the opening on the left and right side of the photos the same.  The kitchen spans the entire width.
  

The cooking and refrigeration side.

This shows the drastic change we made.  The wall in the before photos has been torn down.  The window on the far left is the same window.



Another before photo.  The window is in the same place in the before photo as they are after the renovation.








The stove in this before photos is in the same position, but stove itself is brand new.


The beverage centre is home to the beer and wine fridge, coffee machine and breakfast food.
 Here is the before..


And the after...


Another before and after...the dishwasher are almost in the same position as before. Only now we have two.


Before...
And after...



Thursday 1 December 2011

Kitchen Renovation - Cabinets

The cabinets were being installed on site, at our house. The cabinet guy says this is not how they normally  do things.  But they were rushed to get the cabinets in, so they could get the counters measured and installed and thing could go at a faster pace.

So that meant the cabinet frames came, and the pieces were being installed one by one are our house.  This was a long, long, long process.

I think the cabinet makers were here for three weeks.  It was pretty boring to chronicle each door frame being installed and each door handle being screwed in, so here are a few during, for the final touches have been added.