#kitchen reno

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Found in a People Against Modern Farmhouse group. FROM THIS:

TO THIS. Oh, but it's so sweet. I love it, especially the pink accents.

Love the flooring, the vintage fridge & ovens. Those are amazing finds. Love the enclosure for the fridge.

Love the cabinets, refurbished vintage stove and exhaust hood. I also love the tile backsplash.

They had to have found that drainboard sink in an architectural salvage yard.

I wonder if this works or if it's just for looks.

I wouldn't consider this modern farmhouse, though.

[naomiknight-17]

I wake up and my coutertop's gone

Can't have shit in Toronto

[departmentofinteriors]

[fruitless-vain]

Ending point for today, going to have to add a beam so we can move a beam ever so slightly over since the wall is not built quite the way we thought but so long as that goes well the current coffee nook plans should work just fine

Also the ceiling beam does not extend through to the coffee nook so I can actually change those plans and add more storage there. AND the electrical is routed through the back wall which is exactly where we want to move the outlet to which means easy peasy electrical work!

[dreamhome00]

[theworldoffostering]

I used to love living in a small town. Seriously. Loved it! I loved the community and the connections with other people. Now it has just become emotionally painful.

When we went to see Frozen II on opening weekend, we attended a private invite-only event. Surprisingly to us, Ms. 6’s former adoptive family was there. So painful for Ms. 6 to see that they have added children to their family, but didn’t keep her. They didn’t even make eye contact with us, so no interaction between anyone in our family and them. However, super awkward, and admittedly left me feeling anger and resentment.

This week we went to Ms. 6’s basketball game and the adoptive home that has her siblings were there (total shocker as they live one town over and have never had kids in private school before). They still view Ms. 6 as the “bad kid” because she didn’t protect her siblings from the abuse and neglect. She was five when she was removed for the final time. The adoptive family used to be close friends with us until Ms. 6 moved into her previous adoptive home. Now we are not friends with either family. The family with her sibs were cordial to us at the game, but still lots of sadness over the lost/broken relationship on my end. Ms. 6 was on the court and didn’t notice them there (her sibs were not in attendance). I did talk to Ms. 6 after the game and let her know the adoptive parents were there, and then asked if she wanted me to go over with her to say hi. I wanted her to feel like she had some control over the situation, and since my other two older kids were with me, I knew she would learn that the family was there. Ms. 6 declined saying hi which I was fine wit and we just left after the game.

Yesterday DH went to the store where we purchased our tile to let them know after another issue with the tile guy this week that he was not welcome back, and the project could not be completed without starting over. The store owner said that the tile guy was our employee, not hers. Um, what? She said that we are paying him and not her to do the work. That is news to us as she invoiced us and sent him to our house. We never had him bid the project, didn’t know he’s working under his own company name, and had no say in who she sent over to do the work.

It’s clear that this situation is not going away easily. I think our options at this point are small claims court or eat the $325 (not much comparatively) that we we paid for the tile, scrape it off ourselves, and start over with new tile and a new person. But, small town. Our kid is in band with the tile guy’s kid. I’m really anxious to not make waves; at the same time I would like my kitchen put back together. We did invest money in the new paint, new appliances, and new countertops, so we definitely have cash invested, and the tile is the last piece to complete the project, which has now been dragging on since June.

[wineandsarcasm]

Cabinets are in! Next up, Granite in a few days.

[clutteredvoices]

Finally got the kitchen painted (after 2 wrong paint colors and 5 attempts 😐) now just have to get the new flooring installed