Renovation Time!

You may remember that I told you Bob was building new kitchen cabinets for Heather and Andrew.  They have a pretty small kitchen and the current cabinets weren't in good condition.  The plan is to do one section at a time, so the kitchen isn't totally unusable for a long time.  Bob had the upper cabinets made that went over the sink, so a week ago Saturday he and Andrew tore out the old ones.

Here's the before of that area.  For some reason, there was a big bulkhead and the cabinets were hung down low.  You can see that the counters could hardly be used because the cabinets were in the way.

The old cabinets came out quite nicely.

The bulkhead wasn't so easy though, and it made quite a mess!

Then drywalling had to be done.  Bob was at their house almost every day last week, putting up drywall, mudding the seams and sanding.

Andrew put this picture on Facebook last week as Cassie was very involved in "helping"!  Bob said everywhere he went, she was with him telling him "Grandpa, I can help you!"  He loved it.  :)

Andrew did some touch up painting after Bob finished the drywall so that this past Saturday the first set of cabinets could go up.

Bob built these ones to go up to the ceiling, giving them extra storage space.

Happy to have made this much progress!

You can see where the old cabinets used to hang, all the way down by the windowsill.  Heather is already appreciating being able to use the counter space!  Trim needs to be done here yet, but otherwise the uppers are done.  Next up is starting the base cabinets!