We will also occasionally blog about our wedding plans, meals we create, and other topics we find interesting.
Nothing explains a renovation project like some before pictures, unfortunately my picture taking started in the middle of most of our projects, so there are not true before images... however I think you can get the idea.
The first project we tackled was gutting our 1940's Kitchen. Below are pictures of after we removed the original cabinetry and floors. It was a ton of work... here is the gutted look:
We next put down hardwood floors in the kitchen to match the ones in the rest of the house. A lot of people buy unfinished hardwoods and then stain them to match the others in their home. The seller had just refinished the floors before the sale so we could have easily asked them and found out what stain they used. However, we were in a rush because we had appliances waiting to be delivered, so we decided to buy Bruce pre-stained oak hardwoods, which are sold at Home Depot and Lowes. The stain selection is different at the two locations. Pre-stained hardwood does have variation within the box; however our original floors had a large span of color variation. I could not find one at either location that was a perfect match. To solve the problem we decided the use one pre-stained color that Lowes had and a similar color from Home Depot and mix the boxes, this was an easy solution that added a good bit of variation and prevented the floors from looking like they didn't match the rest of the house.
We spent about two nights laying the floor. I would pick the board layout and cut end boards to the correct length and Collins nailed them in. Here are some pictures:
Stay tuned for updates about out cabinet installation!
No comments:
Post a Comment