Friday, March 17, 2017

Kitchen Pics and Pick-Up Sticks

Kitchen progress is really taking off!  We have pulled off the shiplap on three of the four walls of the kitchen so we can insulate the exterior wall. Soon we will sand the shiplap and seal to re-install.  

 

We have insulated the exterior wall in the kitchen, replaced all the subfloor and began laying a small section of our new flooring so we could finally build our custom sink cabinet. 

 

 

Have I mentioned how awesome our neighbors are... they come over and help us lay subfloor or even put in our heavy cast iron sink!! 

Of course, this has taken a bit longer than excepted because in the middle of this progress we had to finish gathering the branches and limbs from a tree Shae and Dustin cut down. 

 

Does anyone else remember playing the old school game "Pick Up Stix?" I used to play it all the time and thought it would be a useless skill until I had to haul off the branches of a dead sugarberry tree. 

 

Once that was finished we were able to continue the work in the kitchen. For the first time today in about 2 months, I was able to do dishes in a sink again with warm water (not in wash tubs in the backyard with freezing cold water). 

 

 

Porcelain top for our sink base.

 

Old steel work bench base...

 

Working kitchen sink!! FINALLY!

 

As we continue to plan out the details of our kitchen, I get more and more excited to see it all come together. Shae took off two days of my Spring Break so hopefully we will get much more accomplished in the next 48 hours.