Keep on Truckin'

The kitchen floors are now done. They look great. Today, our electrician is roughing in the wiring for the new under cabinet lights. Tomorrow, we're going to be patching up the walls in the kitchen and getting them clean and smooth. Sunday we'll be priming the walls so that we'll be ready to paint as soon as we pick a colour.

It looks like we won't be able to do the wood floors until October :( I may not have the funds available to do them in August. We'll just have to wait and see I guess.

New Tile!

Here is the new tile, pre-grout

Kitchen's Gone!

We demolished our kitchen. It now looks like this:


This is the faucet we're putting in the kitchen. We got a pretty good deal on it.

Bye Bye Kitchen

Tomorrow is the last day in the life of our 70s kitchen. Our condo is going to feel so much different once this new kitchen is put in place. It'll be brighter, cleaner, bigger and sexier.

The new tile floor will be installed on Tuesday and will extend into the dining area, whereas previously the kitchen floor ended right at the kitchen cabinets, and there was carpeting in the dining area.

The new cabinets are to be installed the week of June 9th, and then the countertops will probably be the first week of July. We'll be in Mexico the week of June 22, so that's why there's such a delay in that.

Interior decorating...(re:) wallpaper

"Wallpaper is material which is used to cover and decorate the interior walls of homes, offices, and other buildings; it is one aspect of interior decoration."

It is also one aspect of interior decorating that should never be used. EVER.

"Interior decorating styles change over time, and eventually a person may wish to remove that once lovely wallpaper."

People should think about the people who might live in their place after they move out before applying wallpaper. You should never put up wallpaper, ever.

"Most of the methods of wallpaper removal can be aided by mechanically perforating or scoring old wallpaper with a tool called a Paper Tiger, which looks like a puck with a wheel of sharp teeth. Rolling this tool on the wall in a clockwise or counterclockwise motion effectively creates tiny holes in the surface of wallpaper, but leaves the drywall undamaged."

The paper tiger is used for removal of non-peelable vinyl papers. Peelable vinyls are 2 layer papers, the top layer peeling off to leave a paper backing, which, being porous, is removed by just wetting it."

We did have peelable 2-layer vinyl paper, however it peels off in tiny shreds. So we got the Paper Tiger. It works well. It does damage drywall. We have a lot of sanding and patching to do.

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Yesterday I took down the last remaining wallpaper that was in the dining area. It took about 4 hours to remove the paper that probably took about 10 minutes to put up.

I don't care if your designer thinks it will look "hip and amazing" or even add "charm". Listen to me as I tell you that it is all lies. Just say no to wallpaper.

More work being done

After a few weeks off, we are finally doing more work. Today I ripped out the nasty old carpet in the dining area, and also took out the tile in the kitchen. There's still tile under the cabinets, but we'll get to that when we tear down the cabinets next weekend. This tile was the same as the bathroom - tile on top of parquet. It's coming up fairly easily, except for the tile that was under the stove... that was directly on the concrete.

Just an update

We still have not painted the bathroom. I'm lazy and I don't feel like doing it right now. But we have ordered 2 of the 3 appliances for the new kitchen. They were on sale and I saved a total of $320, so I'm pleased about that. The cabinets will be installed around the 9th of June. We should have the kitchen floors tiled about a week or so prior to that. I'll be taking some time off in august, and I hope to take up the carpet and install the engineered hardwood floors at that time. Once those floors are in place all we have to do is paint and get sexier furniture and our place will be finished! YAY!


EDIT: The only reason I hadn't gotten the dishwasher when I ordered the other appliances is because it was not on sale. Well, I went on Future Shop's site last night and saw that the dishwasher I wanted was on sale for $100 off! So I ordered it. Yay, $420 off on my appliances! w00t!