Kitchen Progress

I think we are finally on the mend here. And while we were coughing, sneezing, wheezing, and generally being miserable, many things were happening in the house.

The Handy Stud actually pulled the floor up before the plague struck. Two layers of vinyl, subfloor, and one more layer of tile before he got to the actual subfloor.

He had to leave a little square under the stove for now. But we ordered the floor yesterday, and this stove will be making its exit sometime next week when the plumber comes to put in the gas line for the new stove. Since the basement is finished, they will have to cut up the subfloor to do the gas line and pull a water line for the refrigerator ice maker. Here is the floor we are going with:

It's a vinyl tile by Mannington, but it will be installed with grout to look like ceramic/stone. It looks a good bit  like the stone on the fireplace and the outside of the house. And, best of all, it's DIRT colored!!

The carpenters also removed the old cased opening, and made this lovely arch...

...and added a knee wall.

The shelf is just sitting there for now so we can see if we will like will look when finished. We think it's cool!

Looking from the kitchen into the great room. This side will have a cabinets and countetop.

And here is the new refrigerator that we found at Best Buy in the scratch & ding section, which saved us over $500. There are two dings - we figured it would look like that after two weeks in our house, at a conservative rate of one ding per week. It also gives us the relief right up front that you feel when you get the first ding in your new car - all other dings are far less traumatic. Except we always buy pre-dinged cars too. Probably for the same reasons.

I'm guessing when she reads this, my daughter may try to use this logic on me for the importance of buying pre-ripped jeans. Somehow, it just isn't the same. Case closed.