Do you remember our "kitchen" before? Yeah this one-
THIS one- Where the faucet didn't reach the sink, and things fell behind the counter through the inch of open space, and the wood countertop was moldy, and the sink was only 4" deep?!?
Say GOODBYE to that mess. Luckily they had a bunch of extra supplies left over from other projects in storage here, and I got to go through them and use them to update our kitchen!! :) I chose these huge high gloss black (probably floor) tiles and chose them for our backsplash! (Gotta admit- Patrick was the one who suggested we even get a backsplash. I didn't think that we would have a chance. I believe we now have the only tile backsplash in all of Rubengera.) Here I'm laying the tiles on the floor to show the installers how I wanted them staggered and not lined up for the backsplash.
This sink was in storage too! The WHOLE TIME! Now I would've preferred one larger vessel than the double sink, ideally a nice farm sink. But when it's free and SO much better, and right there while all the installers are too.. you say OK and smile! They had a brand new beautiful faucet to go with it too! They tried to install it into the same place on the wall. I quickly swooped in.
This is after they removed the old wood countertop.
Cutting our countertop!!!!! (See our old nasty sink back there too?!)
So here the countertop is placed in, they shelves are down, and he's tearing up the wall to re-cement where the backsplash will go.
There goes our backsplash! I actually really love the XL tile size. It's funky. :) And do you see our new sink and shiny new faucet nicely placed in the center of the sink?!!
WHATTTTT!!??!?!?!? :):):):)
You can see the 2 seams here. I tried to get them NOT to put the silicon on the TOP of the counter, just the inside, but it didn't work. They said they would scrape it off the top tomorrow. Don't ask me why. It didn't really scrape off. But whatever- I have a granite countertop!
Back to work the next day! I asked them to use the wood from the previous shelves to make open shelves, and wood brackets instead of the metal ones there before. I think an improvement! They pulled all those loose cords up under the ceiling too, so I don't have to look at those anymore.
YAY!
One more!
And here's what it is looking like today. Still not totally done. We're adding a third shelf above, and will most likely paint all the cabinetry blue! But my oh my what a drastic improvement!
That door needs to be replaced too huh...
Love,
Teri
THIS one- Where the faucet didn't reach the sink, and things fell behind the counter through the inch of open space, and the wood countertop was moldy, and the sink was only 4" deep?!?
Say GOODBYE to that mess. Luckily they had a bunch of extra supplies left over from other projects in storage here, and I got to go through them and use them to update our kitchen!! :) I chose these huge high gloss black (probably floor) tiles and chose them for our backsplash! (Gotta admit- Patrick was the one who suggested we even get a backsplash. I didn't think that we would have a chance. I believe we now have the only tile backsplash in all of Rubengera.) Here I'm laying the tiles on the floor to show the installers how I wanted them staggered and not lined up for the backsplash.
This is a stone countertop that they also had extra of! Now we had to cut it a lot and it has 2 seams along that one small countertop space, but it's MY first ever stone countertop!! Our rental had nasty 70's green laminate, that I then laminated over again with a bad faux wood laminate. They/We are calling this countertop granite. I'm totally not sure what it actually is. It's some kind of composite I imagine? But it's granite here, OK?!
This sink was in storage too! The WHOLE TIME! Now I would've preferred one larger vessel than the double sink, ideally a nice farm sink. But when it's free and SO much better, and right there while all the installers are too.. you say OK and smile! They had a brand new beautiful faucet to go with it too! They tried to install it into the same place on the wall. I quickly swooped in.
This is after they removed the old wood countertop.
Cutting our countertop!!!!! (See our old nasty sink back there too?!)
So here the countertop is placed in, they shelves are down, and he's tearing up the wall to re-cement where the backsplash will go.
There goes our backsplash! I actually really love the XL tile size. It's funky. :) And do you see our new sink and shiny new faucet nicely placed in the center of the sink?!!
WHATTTTT!!??!?!?!? :):):):)
You can see the 2 seams here. I tried to get them NOT to put the silicon on the TOP of the counter, just the inside, but it didn't work. They said they would scrape it off the top tomorrow. Don't ask me why. It didn't really scrape off. But whatever- I have a granite countertop!
Back to work the next day! I asked them to use the wood from the previous shelves to make open shelves, and wood brackets instead of the metal ones there before. I think an improvement! They pulled all those loose cords up under the ceiling too, so I don't have to look at those anymore.
YAY!
One more!
And here's what it is looking like today. Still not totally done. We're adding a third shelf above, and will most likely paint all the cabinetry blue! But my oh my what a drastic improvement!
That door needs to be replaced too huh...
Love,
Teri
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