One Room Challenge Week 4-Kitchen Remodel
Repair Floors
This week we are repairing the wood floors in the area where we removed the pantry and fridge walls. We rotated the island 90 degrees, so that area will need to be repaired too.
Here is the area of the floor that needs to be repaired where the wall was removed.
Here are the repaired floors. The floor carpenter ended up removing most of the floors in this area and laid down new. By the time he removed the boards that needed to be laced in, it was more cost-effective to replace them.
The cutout area is where the pantry wall and island used to be. We also moved back a portion of the wall leading into the kitchen.
Unfortunately, the floors were covered up after the install was finished, so I was unable to get a picture. The cabinets are scheduled to be installed tomorrow morning, so they needed to be covered before the cabinet company arrived.
Cabinet Installation
The cabinets got installed today and I’m loving the new layout; If you remember from week one, I revealed the new layout. The next step is to select the paint color for the main cabinets and the stain color for the island.
The back wall is where the corner pantry and refrigerator used to be. The open space on the back wall in this view is where there will be a horizontal stack of three cabinets with glass doors. In the original design, I had open shelving and decided to change it to something a little more unique; those are scheduled to be installed next week.
Here is where the range will be placed along with the vent hood. The main part of the hood will be painted, and the band at the bottom will be stained to match the floors. We used 3/4” wide x 1/2” wood slates and spaced them 1/2” apart.
Here is the pantry wall with a built-in refrigerator in the middle. The three upper cabinets are hinged on top and will flip up.
Desk area. The walls in this area will be painted the same as in the main kitchen area with a tile backsplash.
The sink will remain in the same location as before, right-hand side of this view, and the island was rotated 90 degrees facing the range.
The island is white oak and will be stained to match the floors.
Pull out drawers will be helpful to maximize storage.
Next Week
> Measuring for countertops
> Test samples of island stain colors
> Paint cabinets
Don’t forget to check out all the other guest participants of the ORC to see what everyone else is up to! See you next week!
