This is our first meal cooked in the new kitchen.
The menu: blackened salmon with seared tomatoes and sauteed veggies. Yum!!!
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
First Meal!
We had a "soft-opening" for our new kitchen on April 12th. With the backsplash fully cured, and the sink, fridge and stove functional, it's high time we use the kitchen, right?
This is our first meal cooked in the new kitchen.
The menu: blackened salmon with seared tomatoes and sauteed veggies. Yum!!!
This is our first meal cooked in the new kitchen.
The menu: blackened salmon with seared tomatoes and sauteed veggies. Yum!!!
Final Inspections - Granted! (Mostly...)
We had our final inspections done by the City yesterday. Other than we didn't have a CO detector in the guest room downstairs (true, that room is not related to the kitchen renovation but an inspector has to do his/her job well!) we passed all our mechanical, plumbing and electrical inspections. YAY!
After we install the CO detector, technically we will pass the building inspection and then the City will declare our kitchen renovation complete.
Apparently, the City doesn't care if we haven't completed the cosmetics yet such as the moulding, baseboard, light rails, as well as pulls and knobs on the cabinets. What a relief! We thought we have to get all of that done prior to the final inspection.
Our electrical permit is expiring May 1st (tomorrow!) So, we made the electrical permit deadline by the hair of our chinny chin chin!
Since the cosmetics are not under any permit deadline, we can take our own sweet time to complete all of that, and to paint the door/window trims! I hope it will go quickly.
Here are the photos of our kitchen, sans thermoply on the floor.
The floor, despite my earlier laments, has turned into a beautiful warm brown (thanks to Bona Traffic Semi Gloss finish!) The color of the floor complements the white of the cabinet, countertop and backsplash very well!
We really appreciate all of you for your words of encouragement. You have helped us reach the finish line when things dragged on a wee bit too long.
We HEART our new kitchen!
After we install the CO detector, technically we will pass the building inspection and then the City will declare our kitchen renovation complete.
Apparently, the City doesn't care if we haven't completed the cosmetics yet such as the moulding, baseboard, light rails, as well as pulls and knobs on the cabinets. What a relief! We thought we have to get all of that done prior to the final inspection.
Our electrical permit is expiring May 1st (tomorrow!) So, we made the electrical permit deadline by the hair of our chinny chin chin!
Since the cosmetics are not under any permit deadline, we can take our own sweet time to complete all of that, and to paint the door/window trims! I hope it will go quickly.
Here are the photos of our kitchen, sans thermoply on the floor.
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| Stove side (yumm... croissants!) |
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| The "L" part of the kitchen (the sink base is missing a door! :) |
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| The fridge wall |
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China cabinet, spiffed up! (Its doors are missing as they are being painted, but I think it looks good as is!)
The extras:
 (using a Rev-A-Shelf add-on)   borrowing JD's term, a "Southern Engineering" solution!   To my Indonesian cousins - a drawer for Supermi is a must! |
The floor, despite my earlier laments, has turned into a beautiful warm brown (thanks to Bona Traffic Semi Gloss finish!) The color of the floor complements the white of the cabinet, countertop and backsplash very well!
We really appreciate all of you for your words of encouragement. You have helped us reach the finish line when things dragged on a wee bit too long.
We HEART our new kitchen!
Friday, April 12, 2013
Wow-Week!
Wow, our kitchen has changed really really fast in the last week after going really really slow for so long. It has gone through an unbelievable transformation in one week time!
Last Friday, 4/5/13, our Calacatta marble countertop was finally installed:
On Saturday 4/6/13, our floor was finished with one last coat of semi-gloss Bona Traffic, and for some reasons, that made the floor looks less pink/red than it did before. What a wonderful surprise!
On Tuesday, 4/9/13, our new fridge and dishwasher were delivered:
On the same Tuesday the above appliances were delivered, the backsplash installation began and it is almost completed by today 4/11/13:
Today, Thursday 4/11/13, our finish plumbing was completed! We have a working faucet, garbage disposal (with airswitch), soap dispenser, air gap and a dishwasher.
It has been about four months since we wash dishes in a kitchen sink, let alone have a working dishwasher and a fridge in the kitchen. Out of habit, we went to the bathroom sink to wash things and then remembered that we could just use our kitchen sink!
It has been over six (looong) months since we first demo-ed our old kitchen.
It is kinda amazing to think that we are almost at the finish line. What a journey it has been! Sometimes we can't even believe that we have come so far (with help from many talented people and encouragement from you folks, of course.)
We still have some finish carpentry to do in the kitchen. Oh, like installing the cabinet pulls and knobs, crown mouldings, baseboards, light rails, and painting the china cabinet doors/drawers. And, yes, we still need to finish M's closet and her bookcase, and... and... and...
But, those are for later :)
For now, we welcome and celebrate our new kitchen!
Last Friday, 4/5/13, our Calacatta marble countertop was finally installed:
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| The "L" part of the countertop between the stove and sink sides |
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| The sink side |
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| The appliance garage gets its own countertop |
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| Check out these runnels! I love them! |
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| The china cabinet gets a quartz countertop |
On Tuesday, 4/9/13, our new fridge and dishwasher were delivered:
On the same Tuesday the above appliances were delivered, the backsplash installation began and it is almost completed by today 4/11/13:
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| Stove side got subway tiles! |
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| Neat, huh? I am glad we keep the backsplash simple and not have any "racing stripe" as we originally planned. |
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| A working sink, yay! |
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| Love our sink setup! | The faucet handle is placed in the front instead of the side so that drippy hands just drip water into the sink instead of the countertop -- an idea thanks to a gardenweb contributor. |
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| What a neat plumbing under the sink base! |
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| Love our Kitchen Aid fridge |
We still have some finish carpentry to do in the kitchen. Oh, like installing the cabinet pulls and knobs, crown mouldings, baseboards, light rails, and painting the china cabinet doors/drawers. And, yes, we still need to finish M's closet and her bookcase, and... and... and...
But, those are for later :)
For now, we welcome and celebrate our new kitchen!
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