Throwback to our first Major project – Kitchen Remodel part 3

While the site Top Homeowner wasn't created for another 5 years this is where our first video started. On his personal channel he had almost 39,000 views and many messages thanking him for the help. He reposted it to our Top Homeowner YouTube channel (video above) and at this time has 4,000 views. We are finishing a few unfinished projects...yes 5 years later but some were not in our control as you will see in the posts about our bathroom remodel. Yep, when we started this project we were one of those people that thought we could get it done in 4 weeks... It is week 10 now and there is still quite a bit to go. Ok ok so we did take a couple weeks off after getting the cabinets installed. Life just became so busy and the house needed attention in other areas. Lets start back at week 5/6 installing the cabinets.

Weeks 5/6

It really only took a day to do the uppers but then we decided they weren't exactly right and started from scratch. Unfortunately our helper of the day left so we were on our own but it wasn't as bad as we feared. We learned a lot from the first attempt and YouTube became our best friend. Lowers were much harder because between the floor and the cabinets there was A Lot of leveling to do. ESPECIALLY the lazy susan. It came together but the lazy susan was our hangup all the way until the counters were installed. In fact Mark ended up making his first YouTube video about it. https://youtu.be/_yFZ0GHRCwM

We also constructed our own kitchen cabinet, from a vanity, for under the window. It turned out pretty slick and may be our favorite area in the kitchen. My husband used 2x4's to make the base and because we have a vent in the floor made an opening. I think we have more airflow now than we did with a straight vent.

Weeks 8/9

Despite not having counters we moved the appliances back in to make a more functional kitchen! Sooo wonderful to feel somewhat normal. We even hosted a lunch for about 20 people the day before the counters were installed. It wasn't the easiest but we made it. We also finished the under cabinet lighting in time.

Counter tops were installed in less than an hour, it took a bit of getting use to. We never saw an actual example before we ordered. We loved it but didn't know if we loved it with everything else...that was until the backsplash started. It gave us another push to get things done.

Ok so this was a total of 9 weeks. We finished up most of the backsplash but still no plumbing. We wanted to make sure we had another pair of eyes so we waited until my dad could come help. It is truly just finish work now but we know it needs to get done otherwise it will be a long while... ************************************* So I was going through our posts (7/3/2020) adding in some links below when I realized that the rest of our kitchen remodel was not included This kitchen turned out better than I dreamed...especially for our first major renovation. We had planned to add an island but with all the doorways and how we used the kitchen it actually worked out better without one. We wanted to keep something from the original kitchen so we decided to reuse the white cabinet that housed our small appliances and cookbooks, just moved it out of the walkway.

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