Kitchen Remodel – Week 4

Instant gratification, who doesn’t like that right? This week’s progress has certainly been that. As a matter of fact, moving forward through the last half of the project, I know most of the milestones will have instant gratification.
At the beginning of this week (Week 4), it was all about preparing the drywall: taping, mudding, texturing. The [...]

Kitchen Remodel – Week 3

In some ways, it doesn’t seem like it’s already the end of Week 3. And what a difference in just 2 weeks. All the plumbing, electrical, lighting and most of the drywall are done.
In what seems like no time at all, it went from this:

To this:

I realized this weekend that I never took before shots [...]

Kitchen Remodel – Week 2

It’s time like this that I’m really glad for an extra bathroom. Some of you might know that earlier in the year, we had a bit of water damage in a spare bathroom. Although the bathroom is completely functional, we have still yet to put the last 2 finishing touches on it. But those finishings aren’t needed [...]

Kitchen Remodel – Week 1

I’ve been thinking about how best to post updates on the kitchen remodel. The format I’ve decided is to do a weekly progress report and end with the meals we ate during that week.
Before

 
After

The construction guys did a great job with the roof line. Unless you knew what used to be there, you’d never know. [...]

Mirage Nanostat 5.1 Speaker System

I apologize up front that this product review has nothing to do with food. But there is a 3-degree separation from the kitchen remodel, which has a 1-degree separation from food. Also, these would be used to listen to any kind of cooking show…Yeah, it’s a stretch but it’s the best I can do.
As part of the [...]