So we’re remodeling the kitchen. More accurately, I’m remodeling the kitchen with some help from a couple of buddies and the direction of my wife. In the past week, we’ve painted it, gotten more than half the floor retiled and ordered a new stove and dishwasher (which I’m installing myself in a couple of hours…).

I have to say, its coming together better than I thought it would and I’ll have more photos online shortly about the whole process. It started two weeks ago as an idea “We should have the wall paper in the kitchen removed and the kitchen painted while the girls are out of town”. Famous. Last. Words. Since then, we’ve gone on to do the flooring and the appliances (except the fridge, the one we have is working ok and we have to find a good compromise for the one we want…).

The only thing I haven’t done myself (or helped with so far) is the wallpaper removal and the painting (painting interior is usually something I like to do). Jose’s Painting did that for us this time, they could do it quicker and cleaner than I could and they did. Did a pretty good job of it too. One of my friends own’s a flooring company and has been talking for ever about helping me tile the kitchen, so I got him to make good on the threat. We’ve been working on the floor since Saturday and I’m becoming a some what competent tile layer (despite what my wife says…).

The kitchen looks good and its coming together well, next will be countertops… but we have to decide on those.