Kitchen Remodel Begins....with the help of scrambletron

Yesterday marked the official start of work on our kitchen.

         

  Wood Arrived on Friday.        The prep left the house with a ghostly feel.

Apparently the 1950's was a great year for well made cabinets since the contractor could find no possible was to remove the nailed into the wall cabinets in one piece.  After a day of trying, the contractor gave up and we said to destroy the things.  It does make you wonder....is it such a good idea to destroy such well built, perfectly ok cabinets? Oh well!

This is how much cabinet demo happened in one day.

Now to the lovely hole in our wall...in knocking out a section to see what was behind there our contractor found a gas line 3 inches in from where we wanted to knock down the wall.  So we could lose 3" from the opening or pay to move the line 3" back somewhere to the tune of $100/in.  We decided to go for it and move the line...those 3" are important!

Bye Bye Wall!

With all the surprises and durability of a 1950's kitchen, the demo was moving a little slow.  Way too slow for scrabletron.  She decided to take matters into her own hands and start the demo herself.  Unfortunately she isn't very smart and ended up demoing part of the living room wall instead.  EBear fixed her mistakes with some plywood.

Look I helped!