December 15, 2009I know it has been a while so my apologies first. We have been in a crazy state for the last month or more. Call us insane, but we decided to
remodel our kitchen during the holidays. What can we say, the price was right but the timing not so much. We completely gutted the kitchen with the help of Pops and Trainwreck. We were able to get it all gutted in the matter of 2 days. It took about the same amount of time just to empty out everything from the cabinets. We made a makeshift kitchen in our laundry room by moving in the diaper changing table for our pantry, a coffee maker, and a toaster oven. We originally had the microwave in there as
well but it kept blowing the circuit so we had to move it. The microwave and the refrigerator are in the foyer to welcome everyone. It is quite comical to see it all but we have made it work. There is a good size sink in our laundry room but we are trying to utilize paper products as much as we can. We have since also found that if we have the toaster oven going at the same time as the coffee maker then we cause electrical issues as well. So after we ripped everything out they had to get it all the way to the studs to rework the electrical and the i
nsulation. They blocked up one window and cut a bigger one over the sink. The back of our house looks like a cannon ball hit it. After we had the hardwood floors put in they decided the kitchen ceiling needed replacing. This meant tearing out sheetrock which was over plaster and putting up all new. I haven't ever seen as much dust as this was. In the meantime we decided to have hardwoods put in the kids rooms so we spent nights moving furniture out of one room into another then the next night doing it again to get the floors complete. Before this task we decided that we wanted Mike's closet to be bigger so we took out part of Landon's room and added 
it to our closet (thanks to Trainwreck and Pops). Tearing out plaster walls again to add to the dust. While we are in the midst of this we decide that since we have all the furniture out it would be a prime time to move Eli into a big boy bed. Worked so well for the naptime but not for night time. He likes to talk so it was an invitation to stay up for hours talking to anyone who would listen, and for Landon who doesn't appreciate that it made life hard. We painted Ella's room very pink and Landon decided that since we needed to paint his room anyway that we would change it completely and have had to paint over the blue ceiling that we painted it before he was born. Ella decided that she liked the blue ceiling and that she was very sad about going to sleep in a 
room with a white ceiling. At that point, all 3 kids were sleeping together until Eli just drove Landon mad and we had to move him into the other room in the pack'n'play. Now everyone is sleeping for the most part and we aren't waking to the sound of saws, nail guns, and air compressors every morning. It is certainly an exciting time but I completely didn't think about the effect it would have on our kids as we haven't really decorated for Christmas. Ella decided that we are the only house not decorated so Dad took the opportunity to hang some Christmas lights downstairs on the walls and we put up the 3 foot Christmas tree downstairs. Only problem now is that Ella doensn't want to put her decorations on a small tree she wants to put them on a big tree. Oh well, we can't win them all. Anyway, we are having lots of fun through the chaos and know in the end we will certainly enjoy the finished project.
remodel our kitchen during the holidays. What can we say, the price was right but the timing not so much. We completely gutted the kitchen with the help of Pops and Trainwreck. We were able to get it all gutted in the matter of 2 days. It took about the same amount of time just to empty out everything from the cabinets. We made a makeshift kitchen in our laundry room by moving in the diaper changing table for our pantry, a coffee maker, and a toaster oven. We originally had the microwave in there as
well but it kept blowing the circuit so we had to move it. The microwave and the refrigerator are in the foyer to welcome everyone. It is quite comical to see it all but we have made it work. There is a good size sink in our laundry room but we are trying to utilize paper products as much as we can. We have since also found that if we have the toaster oven going at the same time as the coffee maker then we cause electrical issues as well. So after we ripped everything out they had to get it all the way to the studs to rework the electrical and the i
nsulation. They blocked up one window and cut a bigger one over the sink. The back of our house looks like a cannon ball hit it. After we had the hardwood floors put in they decided the kitchen ceiling needed replacing. This meant tearing out sheetrock which was over plaster and putting up all new. I haven't ever seen as much dust as this was. In the meantime we decided to have hardwoods put in the kids rooms so we spent nights moving furniture out of one room into another then the next night doing it again to get the floors complete. Before this task we decided that we wanted Mike's closet to be bigger so we took out part of Landon's room and added 
it to our closet (thanks to Trainwreck and Pops). Tearing out plaster walls again to add to the dust. While we are in the midst of this we decide that since we have all the furniture out it would be a prime time to move Eli into a big boy bed. Worked so well for the naptime but not for night time. He likes to talk so it was an invitation to stay up for hours talking to anyone who would listen, and for Landon who doesn't appreciate that it made life hard. We painted Ella's room very pink and Landon decided that since we needed to paint his room anyway that we would change it completely and have had to paint over the blue ceiling that we painted it before he was born. Ella decided that she liked the blue ceiling and that she was very sad about going to sleep in a 
room with a white ceiling. At that point, all 3 kids were sleeping together until Eli just drove Landon mad and we had to move him into the other room in the pack'n'play. Now everyone is sleeping for the most part and we aren't waking to the sound of saws, nail guns, and air compressors every morning. It is certainly an exciting time but I completely didn't think about the effect it would have on our kids as we haven't really decorated for Christmas. Ella decided that we are the only house not decorated so Dad took the opportunity to hang some Christmas lights downstairs on the walls and we put up the 3 foot Christmas tree downstairs. Only problem now is that Ella doensn't want to put her decorations on a small tree she wants to put them on a big tree. Oh well, we can't win them all. Anyway, we are having lots of fun through the chaos and know in the end we will certainly enjoy the finished project. 
1 comment:
You are truly crazy! But I wouldn't expect anything but all out from you. Hope things are on schedule and can't wait to see it all!
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