The Start of the Kitchen Remodel.... Lots more to do and show.

To start off, I bought my house three years ago when I landed my first teaching job.  It was a year full of excitement.  From getting the teaching job of my dreams, to purchasing a house by myself, and moving.  It was one of the most wonderful feelings I could imagine.  The only problem was I didn't have enough time to work on the house to make it the way I would like it to be since I closed on the house two days before I started school.  First year teaching was hard and I was more concerned about learning the ropes of teaching kindergarten then worrying about decorating and remodeling my house.  In June 2012, I married the man of my dreams.  He moved into my house after the wedding and now I have talked him into starting to remodel the WHOLE house one room at a time.  :) He was not to fond of this idea... because he knows how picky I am. We decided to start this adventure in the kitchen.  (which we still have a ways to go) I didn't think it would be such hard work and take so much time. Here are the things that I wanted done in the kitchen.

*Cabinets painted to white (don't like the wood) ~Done~
*New handles for cabinets ~Done~
*Put crown molding on the tops of the cabinets ~Done~
*Paint crown molding too
*Pull the Mica Laminate off the walls behind the counter tops ~Done~
*Fix wall after Mica is pulled off (Plaster and sand)
*Paint the walls
*Put in granite counter tops
*Put in engineering hardwood floors

The ones that have red beside are the ones we have accomplished. The others are still in progress. As you can tell we have a ways to go!! Here are some pictures of the progress.  I will keep posting updates as we get more done. So keep coming back :)

Here is the kitchen before we started to paint. (sorry we didn't get one before we took the doors off)

 Here is some pictures of our progress in painting.

We started putting the doors back on :)

We put new hardware on the cabinet doors. The color of the cabinets are Swiss Coffee from SW

Taking the Mica Laminate off the wall was not fun.

Putting the crown molding up on the cabinets (They are not painted the same color yet) Still in progress.... and the start of the plastering of the wall to fix the spot from the mica laminate. 

we still have a ways to go but it is on its way!! Today we have started sanding the plaster down and painting the crown molding.  We hopefully should be able to start painting the walls tomorrow or Sunday! Then I can get the granite counter tops!! Here is a sneak peek of the counter tops that I want and the engineering hard wood floors.

 

I can not wait till this project is done.