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Upshaw 2008 - 2009 Kitchen Remodel

2Nov08 - Dining room before demo	Living room from front door before demo	Living : storage room
Fireplace ready for demo	Main beam next to fireplace	Door into kitchen before demo
Kitchen nook before demo	Another view of the kitchen nook	Kitchen door to outside
Pantry on left; door into guest room before demo	Guest room door and wall before demo	Our pantry is bare
Kitchen refridgerater and stove and cabnets	Full view of kitchen before demo	Another view of kitchen
Kitchen and corner of kitchen nook	Stove, cabnets, and hood before demo	Dishwasher and sink before demo
Microwave, oven, and stove before demo	3Nov08 - kitchen from dining room during demo	kitchen from dining again
Door into kitchen from dining during demo	Kitchen sink, non-cabnets during demo	non-stove, oven and microwave during demo
Kitchen sink during demo	4Nov08 - Brick fireplace on the floor	Ignore the fireplace behind the curtain
More brick on the floor	Fireplace from the front door during demo	More brick
Kitchen is gone	Pantry is almost gone	Kitchen with no stove, oven, etc
Kitchen with no sink, dishwasher, etc.	Brick on the floor	Stripped down pantry
5Nov08 - Kitchen entry from family room	Dining entry from family room	All that's left of the fireplace
Door into kitchen from living room	Living room after demo of chimney	Got roof?
Kitchen view towards family room	Pantry is gone	Dining room after demo
6Nov08 - New ceiling	No more fireplace	View from living room to kitchen without fireplace
View from kitchen to living room	7Nov08 - View from living room towards family room	Kitchen and dining room after demo
Kitchen nook after demo - working on a new door to guest room	View dining:family room from Kitchen	Door into guest room - soon to go
Arlyn comes from school to discover her kitchen is gone.	New wall on right, viewing hallway into kitchen	Dining room view of family room
Ready to move door to guest room	Living room with no fireplace	Kitchen viewing the family room
9Nov08 - View of family room from living room during Arlyn Bday party	11Nov08 - standing on old fireplace area	wall between front door and old fireplace
hallway to kitchen	entrance to family room	new doorway to guest room off kitchen
view from kitchen to dining:living rm	13Nov08 - pass through wall from dining to kitchen	hallway
new entrance door to guest room	framing of new pantry	framing of vertical cabinets
20Nov08 - pass through more complete	framing for cabinets above pass through	stripped to the studs-window stays
new ceiling above in kitchen	new "temporary" guest room door	view from kitchen door to family room
23Nov08 - pass through with lighting cans	pass through toward back door	guest room door next to back door
view of pass through from back door	4Dec08 - Drywall going up
		11Dec07 - Drywall done and mudding started.
13Dec08 - Mudding almost complete
	16Dec08 - Painting started	Kitchen floor covered with felt in preparation for self-leveling the floor.
17Dec08 - Kitchen leveled (self-leveling concret) in preparation for the cabnets and eventual tile
19Dec07 - Cabnet installation started.
30Dec08 - Tile partly in - no grout yet.
4Jan09 - Tile, cabnets, and lights coming together	5Jan09 - The floor is finished
		13Jan09 - more cabnets, room for refridgerator
		14Jan09 - refridgerator finally in!
Now we need a stove...
Got almost everything but that stove!	ready for a new floor	The kitchen from the living room
26Jan09 - the dining room floor is refinshed and we have a stove!	The garbage compactor also works as a swim suit dryer.	Bench seat in the breakfast nook
View the new living room floor from the kitchen
		30Jan09 - The bench seat is now part of the living:dining room. This side is the dining room.
This side is the living room	The new entryway just inside the front door.	While we are tiling the entryway we did the bathroom, too
Entryway, hallway, bath on the left.	The new pantry	Breakfast nook bench seat is now painted
View of the stove	New hand-made light in kitchen	New hand-made lights over sink
17Feb09: FINISHED (well, except some small details - notice missing plate on box holding 3 switches and GFI under cabnet. Holding up final inspection!)	View from dining into kitchen	View from kitchen to dining and living rooms
The new pantry full of stuff	View kitchen from the breakfast nook	View of kitchen and family room from breakfast nook
Breakfast nook	Kitchen sink with new hand-made lights	New Refrigerator
View of microwave cabnet from family room	Dining room table with bench on left	Living room with dining and kitchen behind it
Living room on right, hall way to kitchen on left	Living room	View after entering the front door. Kitchen on left.
Polly finally uses her new kitchen!