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It took 2.5 months, but the kitchen is finally done and we love it! It’s an old house so we didn’t really know what we would find when we tore it down to the studs. There were some definite structural issues, some very uneven surfaces, and even some bowing of the front of the house. We also discovered that the ceiling was sinking, by 4 inches! Our contractor was amazing and propped it up, but not completely because it would have cracked the walls in Lauren’s room (which is right above the kitchen), which Dave redid a few years ago, as well as crack the tiles in the girls bathroom, also a project that we had done recently.

down to the bricks
studs from the wall that was diving the laundry room and kitchen

One the wall between the laundry room and kitchen came down we realized that it was built without proper support, so we had to get a beam put in the ceiling, as well as another vertical beam put in the basement to prop up the floor. Thank God we did this project when we did. I can’t imagine what would have happened if we waited another decade.

Wall down, horrible vinyl floor gone, Sheetrock up
Center island, cabinets and floors in.

We’re so happy with how it all turned out! We have so much more space now and I live on that Center Island. The kids sit there in the mornings for breakfast, and I can talk with them while getting lunches together. We’ve gathered around it for parties, holidays, get togethers with friends, etc.

We doubled the size of the door between the dining room and kitchen, so you can now see and talk with people in the diving and living room. Before the kitchen was really closed off from the rest of the house (which I have to say was not the worst thing… but this is better).
Dave made the bar backslash out of old wine corks (which we have an abundance of)

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