The Traveling Kiwi

Not yet before and after – more like before and step one. The kitchen has been cleared, cleaned and demolished. The girls helped me remove the sink and blast through the walls, but I was proud of how far I got by myself. you will note form the before photos there was some creative use of garage hangers and shelves.
I am waiting to hear if the cupboards I want will be available next week, I have the countertop laying against the wall and the flooring is ready to go down. My wonderful kitchen design involves finding out what the job lot of cabinets look like and installing them to fit the countertop – it will be an interesting puzzle but my budget doesn’t allow for actually buying what I want, more of a scavenger hunt.
I thought while I am waiting I would replace the vanity in one of the bathrooms and happily removed the old one this morning, unfortunately half of the rotted wall came with it and what I had thought would be a quick job has turned into a major undertaking. I will replace the thin plywood wall with drywall/gib board and find a nice cool morning to recaulk all the windows on that side of the mobile. I found a well priced small vanity but realized when I took out the old one that how the the pipes come out of the wall means it will be 6inches short of the side wall, not a problem except the wall behind is 1980s wallpaper and not in great condition. I don’t want to replace that whole wall as well and it is the same thin plywood, so I am going to build little box shelves down the side – a design feature 🙂 Some how I  am getting the impression there may be a few design features before we are done.

~ by kiwikris on July 3, 2014.

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