Kitchen Remodeling The Hard Way

After sending out an email about my recent home remodeling – Brenda sent me an email mentioning that her and her husband had recently completed some remodeling projects themselves.

Being the curious gal that I am… I asked for pictures. Wow… did I get pictures.

First… let me just say that this is Remodeling The Hard Way! Not one thing in this remodel was done with outside help. They did all the demolition, tiling, cabinet installation and window replacement themselves.

I had the luxury of supervising most of my recent remodeling. I will never complain about the noise again! I will learn to deal with the aggravation of a little noise or inconvenience so that I don’t have to do my Kitchen Remodel the hard way.

Anyway… here are all the pictures of Brenda’s kitchen remodel:

Ripping out a few old walls.

This old house had some “issues“.

Restoring the view with new windows.

And where do you put all the “stuff” while remodeling the kitchen?

And they installed tile themselves on the kitchen counters!

Debra,

Here are the finished countertop photos.  I think this about covers what we
have accomplished so far.  We still have a long ways to go as we plan to do
the rest of the house as well.  Just takes time and money.

Using a makeshift tile saw table.

Mixing the mastic.

Use tile spacers to keep grout lines even.

And then… They Installed A New French Door!

This is of the door we removed from the kitchen and put into our dining room.
It leads out to the garage.  This allowed us more room for cabinets in the kitchen.

I am so tired just looking at the pictures! We are all so proud of Brenda and her hubby… they took kitchen remodeling to an extreme sport.

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