Kitchen Reno Diary - Week Four

Quite a bit accomplished since my last installment - more photo updates posted to Flickr now. The wiring and other electrical rough-ins are pretty much finished. After a weekend spent pulling old nails out of the ceiling joists, a guy came in yesterday to put up new strapping, and today the electricians installed all the boxes for the new pendant lights and mounting plates for the potlights. Tomorrow, the new ceiling is going up!

Other things: I stripped off some awful 80s floral-print wallpaper in the pantry, and A. is carrying on with pulling up the old tile floor (a miserable job, as there are three layers of plywood beneath that have been nailed down every 2" or so). I've also pretty much decided on my countertop, which will be Hanstone quartz (engineered stone) in Juniper Green. It was an easy decision in the end, since the other surface I was considering, Zodiaq quartz, was going to be $1,600 more expensive.

But the most exciting development by far is that on Thursday last week, we signed off on the cabinetry designs. I've posted all the final drawings in my Flickr album (click on any of the pics to enlarge them). So the new cabinets are now in production, and we're due for installation during the week of February 9th.

Still plenty to do before then, though. The floors are to be relaid next week, the chimney repointed and the old stovepipe hole filled in, the window trim finished, the siding reinstalled outside, and plastering aplenty to fill in all the holes in the walls. Want to get the walls painted, too. Whew.