The kitchen ....

After re-modeling our kitchen 6 years ago, I never thought

I would ever have to live without a kitchen again

I never wanted to either

but here we are.....have no kitchen!

the pipe under that carries the hot water burst.

thankfully we were home at the time

I cannot imagine if we had not been considering how fast it flooded

This happened back in September and they dried the floors out

but then we all agreed it was best to let everything settled down

and see if the buckling of the floor would settle down

and it did in some spots, but not all over

So now we are starting the repairs

and being without a kitchen again is no fun at all
they have to sand the floors in not only the kitchen, but also the
dining room, back hallway and the 1/2 bath
there was damage to the cabinet that holds the sink so that
will be replaced. Also damage to the kick plates around the 
bottom of the cabinets.

first we had to clean out the kitchen, just stuff on the counters,

pictures off of the wall

so bare....

the people came on Friday to remove all of the furniture, they are

storing that offsite

they also prepped the space for the floor sanders

the plumber also came and unhooked the plumbing and removed

the toilet in the 1/2 bathroom

Our living room became our make shift kitchen

the microwave and of course our coffee bar!

what a mess and oh hey, there's my new Christmas tree

after this picture we did bring in the folding table and put 

everything on that

all sealed up...I sure hope it works on

keeping the dust out

the white cabinets look so funny with that blue

tape all over them but that is supposed to keep the dust out

TV all taped up

and then 15 minutes after they left this happened

hahaha

I'm typing this up on Sunday and it is now laying on the floor

the floor people come on Monday morning so they will hang it

back up

Just hanging out in the temporary kitchen

this is the cabinet that was damaged by the hot water

these nice young men came on Saturday to remove the granite

My big sink was one of my most favorite things in our re-model

now she's resting there on the cabinet floor.....

granite gone!

so the timeline is sand the floors on Monday

Stain them on Tuesday

a coat of poly on Wed, Thursday and Friday

then I believe on Monday put it all back together again!!

I survived 7 weeks with no kitchen so I'll be 

able to get through this....just a pain! haha

later.....