Kitchen Update 8/2/10

Rich cut some more soapstone tonight!  2 more pieces!

Then Rich and our son Matthew (16) put the pieces in place... one on each side of our BlueStar range!

It looks so awesome!  When we treat the soapstone with mineral oil it will become almost black and show off the beautiful veining! 

Sore muscles...

Worked most of the day sanding drywall in the kitchen. Boy am I sore tonight!!!

Now... got my feet up on a pillow while I look at color scheme books!

I've got all stainless appliances and black soapstone for counters/island... so I'm going to go with warm, rich, earthy colors.

Can't wait till I can put paint on the walls!

Cabinets... mid-May....

Pantry-finished wallboarding and...

Friday was a productive day. We feel as though we made some good progress! Here's a little summary. Sorry no pics or video. I'm borrowing Rich's computer because my Macbook is down... sigh...

Pantry

We finished putting up the wallboard in the Pantry. It's all taped and ready for mudding.

Kitchen

I continued to work on mudding. Mostly yesterday I sanded the ceiling. It's official... my skin does NOT like sheetrock dust. I've got the red bumps today to prove it. Will have to protect my skin... maybe buy a special suit.

Breakfast Nook

Almost done... a few more sheets of sheetrock to go... of course... in the most difficult of places... the cathedral ceiling!

mud... mud... mud...

I'll be mudding the kitchen over the next several days!

Graying all over!

I've just finished work for the day in the kitchen. Made some awesome progress...mudding & sanding!

Oh my gosh, you should see me! My hair is no longer golden light brown... but is GRAY! I'm covered in drywall dust!

I feel really good about how work went today. Guess that I'm getting into the groove with my "Mud Artiste" hat on!

But seriously... tomorrow I will dawn a bandana on my head!

Our Kitchen has walls!

We've been working hard... I mean... with great determination!

KITCHEN

Rich and our oldest son Matthew finished putting up the wallboard in the kitchen on Saturday night. YEAH!!!!

BREAKFAST NOOK

However... the adjoining breakfast nook is still without walls/ceiling board. It's going to be a little tricky to finish because of the cathedral ceiling. We hope to get that done tonight!!!

MUD

Today, I will continue mudding & sanding the ceiling & walls in the kitchen. Can't wait to get to the priming stage!!!!

And...

I made a video to share with you so that you could see our progress... but alas... my macbook didn't like that last software update... and is... well... incapacitated right now... sadly... Can't post any more pics/video until I figure out how to fix it! Sorry!

More sheetrocking going up in the kitchen

SHEETROCK WALLS - KITCHEN

Well the kitchen is really taking shape!

Rich and his unwilling teenage helper (our older, almost 16 year old son) are putting up the walls today!

It's looking pretty good!

WARNING: MUD ARTISTE at work!

I'm doing a 2nd coat of mud in the dining room.... mudding... sanding... I AM a self-proclaimed MUD ARTISTE!!! I AM!!!!

Celebrating each step....

Goal... be ready for kitchen cabinets by the end of January!!!

So to that end...

-I finished the first coat of mud on the Kitchen Ceiling!

-Rich added bracing to the studs to support the stainless steel vent hood.

-And... another the top piece of the west wall went up!

Progress!!!!

Kitchen Ceiling.. Mud begins

Today I taped all the joints in the Kitchen Ceiling and began filling screw holes and seams with mud!

Tomorrow all seams will have their first coat of mud!

Rich is planning on starting the walls tomorrow.

Kitchen Progress!

KITCHEN...

Rich ran the wiring for the Vent Hood this morning... then the rest of the day was dedicated to putting up ceiling board in the kitchen.

I am very... extremely... happy to report that: We have a ceiling in the kitchen!!!!

MUD...

While the guys worked in the kitchen... I did some mud work in the dining room. It actually went really good today! Having the mud the consistency of sour cream really makes a huge difference in how smooth you can apply it!

I'm finally starting to feel more comfortable with it!!! Which is a good thing... because I have LOTS & LOTS of mud work yet to do!

Houston, cabinets are a GO... I repeat...

Got the final drawing of the cabinets!

Way cool!

They will be Oak with Red Oak stain. I'm going with a simple look for the doors to go with my theme of Antique Mission for the whole house.

I've decided on Red Oak stain because we love antique furniture... so whatever we pick up will on future antique adventures will "go" with the kitchen!

OK,,, so let's get to work now!