Friday, July 3, 2009

Kitchen: Day 1

Here you go: Day 1 in all it's glory! It will mainly be photos for a while until I can muster the strength to digest all that is happening and fill you in on it.

After 11 hours, we stopped for the day. I was extremely tired, but overall it was pretty smooth. Our contractor came alone Friday morning and mentioned his crew had all taken the time off for the fourth but he still wanted to come and get the appliances for us. I watched as he single-handedly muscled them all out the door and somehow got the fridge up and into his truck. I have no idea how that happened.

Here are some photos of the day:


7:30am: the kitchen "before"


8:30am: after the appliances were removed


9:30am: getting some breakfast before at Eastern Market before embarking on the day


10:30am: at IKEA buying the cabinets



11:00am: There they are! All 88 cabinet pieces!




2pm: Finishing taking down the stove hood and the upper cabinets:


6pm: Day 1 complete




4 comments:

Patrick said...

You did'nt let Dan use power tools, did you?

Benny said...

Patrick,

Only to take the screws out. Nothing he could really get into trouble with.

Kate said...

WOW! Nice work! Breakfast, purchase, and demo all in one day. Super sweet.

Benny said...

Thanks Dude! It was pretty ambitious but well worth it!

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