When your kitchen looks like this...
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...it's a little tough to cook.
You end up toasting bagels on the floor.
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Your laundry room might start to look like this.
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Piles of unfolded laundry may be on your couch.
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Conditions inside your fridge may become so crowded that random items fall on your feet when you open the door.
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BUT! I am pleased to say that most of the indoor work on my cabinets is now done. I'm not sure I have words to say how pleased I am about that.
Kitchen upheaval is muoy difficult for me.
I really have been cooking, despite the mess, though. I've just been briefly cleaning it up at mealtimes and then going right back to more mess-making.
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(This is a meal from my new 6 ingredient cookbook from America's Test Kitchen, which I shall be reviewing and giving away soon.)
Hopefully by the end of the week, I'll be done painting my cabinet doors, and then I can share some fun After pictures, at long last!
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It looks a bit chaotic but you must be glad the end is getting closer. If it makes you feel better, I often have things falling out of the fridge and piles of unfolded clothes and I'm not renovating 🙂
That's true...at least I have a really, really great excuse at the moment!
Kristen, you are amazing! Thank you for sharing your progress and I hope you get some relaxation in sometime in the near future...!
I thoroughly sympathize on how disruptive and unpleasant construction/disruption is! I'm glad it's going well and on the days when it seems like too much - remember how incredibly happy you're going to be to have a kitchen with refinished cabinets. A hard task, that you've been thinking about for years, that will make a strong visual different in a space in which you spend a large part of your day. You're going to be ecstatic.
Gotta keep my eyes on the prize-yes.
Remember those plug-in appliances...they can go anywhere there's an outlet! Put a crockpot on the deck, the rice cooker in the bathroom...wherever you've got spare space. (Putting the crockpot on the deck is especially nice in super-hot weather, to keep even that slight bit of heat out of the house.)
When we redid our kitchen, we cooked everything on the grill because we moved the stove out. We made cookies, pizza, fried chicken, everything!
I am sooooooooooooo impressed that 1) you know how to do this re-do on the kitchen cabinets 2) you are still blogging in the middle of all this AND 3)YOU ARE STILL COOKING WHEN YOUR KITCHEN IS BROKEN INTO LOTS OF PIECES. You are such a beautiful example of a Proverbs 31 woman. Inspirational to us all.
Heh-well, I'm too cheap to buy takeout for six people for several weeks. The cost might put me in my grave. =P
Oh I feel your pain...upheaval like this just kills me, but the rewards are great!
Yes! I really hate having things not put together.
I'll feel ya! I have a hard time with my kitchen being not put together. Grey makes fun of me because I almost always clean the kitchen before starting dinner, if it is not clean already. He'll say something like: "you know you're just going to make a mess again, why not just clean it once?" ..."yes, I know...but I can't cook like this !" Haha. Glad to hear about your cabinetry progress. 🙂
A messy kitchen means you can't find the tools you need, when you need them, because they're not clean and where they should be.
A messy kitchen means you don't have the counterspace you need, when you need it, because STUFF is in the way. You end up having to put your cooking in the wrong place because the right place is full, and that's inefficient.
A messy kitchen means the sink is full when you need to put something in there, or wash your hands, or get a pot full of water.
OTOH I can't think of a good reason to wipe down the counters before starting cooking. But I do it anyway.
I love your website and enjoy your emails. Through your email I signed up for and issued a 10.00 payment for an ebook class that I did not rec'v a link to join the class last week. I was looking forward to it but no email. Do you research the classes that you recommend? I do enjoy your site though.
Yep, I got my email yesterday. If you haven't gotten yours, email Mandi and she will help you get the problem solved. Here's her email: mandi@bundleoftheweek.com
Thank You, I have emailed Mandi.
Once, my parents moved into a nearly-finished home, where my sweet mom got the task of washing her kitchen dishes in the upstairs bathroom sink for.a.month. It was a good lesson for me about conveniences, and how very much I enjoy them! (Also, how very crabby I can be when things are just a teensy bit harder.) Ugh.
Congrats on facing the mess so you can enjoy the fruit, soon!! 🙂
I can't wait to see the finished product. Go on with your bad self. LOL
I know the mess a small renovation makes ... but you will love the end result!
Lance wants to know: Why did you empty out all the cabinets? If you haven't emptied everything and you're not painting the insides, he says just push everything back.
My theory is that you're using this project to thoroughly clean and purge the contents of each and every cupboard. 😉
Also, do you have room in your garage to set up a table and make a temporary kitchen? During a heat wave, I put my toaster oven on my laundry counter in the garage to keep the heat out of the house. I liked having it out there (and off my kitchen counter) so much that it never regained house privileges again.
That's because I was sanding the frames with a power sander, and the dust was too much. It was easier to take everything out, sand, and then vacuum up all the dust!