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Kitchen Remodel – Complete!

October 6, 2013 by dspurgers Leave a Comment

In February 2011, I bought my house. It was in great shape and needed no work, but I definitely had some I wanted to do. Since I love to cook and entertain, I felt the kitchen needed some serious work. Here’s where we started:

Before we started

Before we started

In September of 2011, with the help of my great friends (and now essentially family) Don & Christine Riley, we laid tile to cover up the awful linoleum. This was probably my favorite of the remodel projects so far. Mind you, I am a marketer, not a contractor. Without the Rileys (who also aren’t contractors – they’re just brilliant) this would have been awful. Since they’re amazing, it turned out really well!

The next project was the cabinets. In October of 2011, I had my wisdom teeth out. My brilliant plan was do to my cabinets that weekend, start to finish! I was going to be home, might as well do it! That 3 day project may have turned into a 2 year project. I started sanding and staining and got ONE bay into my kitchen and hated it – as well as the work. So I took a short break (read 2 years) and then decided I wanted to ditch earth tones in my house altogether. So no staining – let’s move on to painting!

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Tile done – cabinets after short break

With the purchase of a new business, I also procured a Graco Magnum X5 that made this really easy. Overspray is terrible. The prep work is the longest part of this – and the hardest. Once the prep work is done, painting takes no time. I sprayed a coat over my entire kitchen in less than 20 minutes.

Here’s where we ended with the cabinets:

After cabinets - before countertops

After cabinets – before countertops. Hi Kodi!

After finishing the cabinets, the off white appliances were… less than pretty. And the tan formica may have been even worse. The next piece was a countertop overlay called Feather Finish made by Ardex. We sanded the countertops and got to work! After finishing countertops, the final piece was adding new stainless steel appliances (unfortunately I don’t have an after countertop/before appliance picture).

First coat on countertops

First coat on countertops

During countertop work (wet seal on counters)

During countertop work (wet seal on counters)

After countertops!

After countertops!

With appliances!

 

Complete!

Complete!

This was one of the more fun projects I’ve worked on. The beauty of it? Once all is said and done (not including appliances), I spent less than $1,000, and can say that I did it all myself (with LOTS of help) and didn’t hire it out!

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I'm a marketing professional and entrepreneur focused on helping small businesses succeed. My philosophy for life: wake up full each day, and end the day spent, having given everything you possibly could.

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