Friday, January 23, 2009

Weekend Warriors

We began with this...


Had a little bit of this in the middle...


We now have this...


How do you spend your weekends?

Do not think for one second that we did ALL of this ourselves. The kitchen was the one room where we hired contractors to help us with the majority of the installation projects. Can you see us installing the 700-pound granite island ourselves??? That would have been awful!

I think I'm going to frame the photos of our kitchen "before" and "after" and hang them in whatever room we are currently remodelling as inspiration. The downstairs is almost finished! We still have to paint the entry and the living room, but that's nothing. We also want to install all new shelving in our two pantries...yes, two!

I'd like to thank the boys for putting up with the many contractors we've had in the house and the many cartoons we forced them to sit and watch while we demolished tile, ripped out cabinets, etc.

3 comments:

Caleb, Bree, Zane and Claire said...

It is beautiful!

Dalene said...

WOW! Please come do our kitchen. It is in serious need of an update and yours is exactly what I would choose.

Sheelagh said...

That's amazing!!!! It definitely makes my weekends seem lazy. hahaha
I can only dream of that kind of thing. John and I aren't very handy nor do we know what to do with our kids when we both need to be tackling a big job together.