These are huge pictures - I apologise, but I had a ton of trouble with photobucket - I just gave up and put them on huge.
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Here's day one - before anything was touched. Old fridge, crappy floor, tacky handles. Tired kitchen. Notice three shelves over the fridge. That is only 50" high, and you can't get a fridge that short nowadays!
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The cupboard over the fridge was cut off first - this is the whole reason we started this process. The cupboard was too low, and we couldn't get a new fridge, and our old one was slowly dying. Just because we needed a new fridge, we are getting new windows, floor, painting the cabinets, and new backsplash. Yay!
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Mike took off the old - plastic - that's right, plastic tiles. They were white in the picture, but they'd been painted many coats of different colours over the years. Originally they were yellow and black - bumblebee kitchen!
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We never had a light over the sink, even though we have the alcove for it. It makes such a huge difference now!
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Old linoleum tiles under our no-wax floor that we could never get clean. Nice yellow and black!
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Working on the tiles. I like them more and more each day!
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This rotten floor was under the fridge - from an obviously very old fridge leak. It had been covered by linoleum, tile and no-wax flooring! Finally we decided to repair it!
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The tiling is all finished. I love the blue!
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This is the repaired floor that was under the old fridge. Much safer now!
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This is the completed floor, morning of July 18th. The quarter round went in today after this picture was taken.
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This is the new fridge on the completed floor - July 18th!
We're still waiting for the windows to be ready, but we are replacing those too, and I will be repainting the cabinets and all the trim in the room over the next few days, as well as replacing the hardware. As more gets finished, I'll post a few more pics. I can't wait until we are done, and I can put all my stuff back in the cupboards and actually cook some good food again!
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