Kitchen Demo

This weekend we started demo work on the kitchen...we knew this was going to be a hard task.  We wanted to keep the upper cabinets and as much of the lower cabinets that we could.  The cabinets are solid wood and nailed to the wall with 3 inch nails.

We started with removing the flooring-first the ceramic tile.

The cement board under the ceramic tile was adhered to the original wood floors and we were not able to save them:(  Totally bummed about this!

Finally got the floors up and moved on to removing the cabinets...Trey had to use a kung fu move on one of the base cabinets...needless to say we didn't save that one:)

Something had apparently been living under that cabinet...now I'm really happy we stripped the kitchen down to the bare bones!

The floors are now completely removed!  That was a lot of work.  There were a few holes in the sub-floor that we had to repair...Trey found this out the hard way...LOL!

Here's the kitchen completely gutted...this is going to be so much fun putting it back together.

Before/After of Kitchen...

This was a very productive weekend...the kitchen is completely demo'd.  We have ordered all new appliances & LUCKILY found matching long leaf pine hardwood flooring at a salvage yard that match the den PERFECT!!  I can't wait to put this room back together, but that's going to be while.

Next up...bringing down the deck!!