Kitchen update 2 / 2-22-09

Most of this work was done last weekend, but we just finished sweeping up all the glue and splinters that were covering the floor. The wood was glued to the concrete sub floor, so to take it out we used a Superbar and a mini sledge. This was not fun, but had to come out to make way for tile.

The tools

before

Kitchen reno - update 1 / 2-22-09

The first cut is always the deepest... really it's the hardest. We thought this weekend was a good time to check out the kitchen wall. And yeah, it definitely wasn't load bearing, so we decided to rip it out. We weren't quite gangster enough to take a sledge hammer to it, but we got it out with minimal collateral damage.

Found out there are pipes and wires running through the wall in the sofit, so we'll have to keep that.

Thomas Friedman - No Way, No How, Not Here

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/opinion/18friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

Morning coffee

I know where this guy is coming from.

le Café - Oldelaf (english subtitles)
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Kitchen reno started 2-15-09

We started pulling up our floor yesterday which officially begins our kitchen renovation. The floors throughout the condo are engineered hardwood (i.e. 1/4" plywood w/ red oak veneer) that were glued to a concrete sub floor.

It was not an easy job and I'll explain how we removed those later. But first, a few before shots:


The first and second images are what you see when you walk through the front door. We're not really sure what this room was meant to be. When we first saw the condo it was staged as a den, but that doesn't make sense to us. So part of the renovation will be to make better use of the space.

This is our galley kitchen. It is very tight and just doesn't look right considering that the rest of the apartment is pretty big. And it's purple.