Starting on Friday, 4/18, I’m going to attempt to remodel my kitchen in 5 days. With some luck, beer and a lot of hard work, I’ll complete it by 4/22, end of day. Each evening, I’ll document my progress. Here is update #1.
I bailed from work at 4pm today and immediately started tearing up my kitchen. Since I work from my home, I was able to start about 90 seconds after I logged off. It would have been less than 90 seconds, but I had to put my crappy work pants on.
So today, I removed most of the cabinets. Taking them out is pretty easy. Undo a couple screws with the drill and off the cabinet comes.
My other other big accomplishment was modifying a wall for our refrigerator. Our food cooling device is a massive beast. While I love the counter depth refrigerators, I don’t like how much they cost. The good thing is that the wall that the refrigerator will back up to is 12″ thick (used to be an exterior wall). So, I hacked away at it and now, my refrigerator will be counter depth.
Stats:
- Hours spent: 6
- Trips to Home Depot: 0
- Injuries: 1 (jabbed myself with the drill)
- Beers consumed: 2
- Prognosis: Good, I think I’m on target.
Day 2 Plans
Tomorrow, I hope to accomplish the following:
- Remove the rest of the cabinets
- Finish mudding my refrigerator indent
- Take out the tile
- Move refrigerator water line and gas line for oven
- Start hanging the new cabinets
Wow, I have not slept well all week and am exhausted! Good night and I’ll talk to you tomorrow!
Awesome Mr 1500. If possible, I’d like to see a photo of your fridge cove…..before you mud and drywall. I’ve done a lot of remodeling and I’m very curious how you did this without hacking it to pieces. Good luck man. I’ll be following along
-Bryan
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Poop, I didn’t take a picture. The short version is that the wall is 12″ thick and was framed with 2x4s on both sides. I opened a hole in my kitchen with the old Sawzall. After that, it was easy to frame out a little box.
In subsequent updates, can we please have ‘beer type’ in addition to ‘number of beers consumed’? I think that is a very important detail for these types of projects 🙂
Good luck!
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Absolutely!
smart thinking on the fridge cove. That doesn’t negatively affect the cooling capabilities of the fridge, does it? like there are no overheating concerns, would there be? if not, then I’m surprised more people hadn’t thought of that!
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This particular refrigerator expels the heat through a panel in the front (I think most do). so it won’t be an issue.
Agree with Mad Fientist. I would like to know what type of beer you are drinking.
Also, I think this phase is commonly referred to as creative destruction! Best of luck with phase 2!
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Beer update now included starting on day 2.
Thanks!
Haha, shame you’re going to paint over that smiley. We’ve put random marks inside walls and on studs as we’ve worked throughout the house. I like to imagine some faraway future when someone will find them and think, “who were these weirdos and why did they love smiley faces so much?”
Great progress on day 1. Looking forward to hearing how hard tile removal is/isn’t.
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Tile removal is going super well. They come off without much of an issue, although we’re going to have some scraping to do.
Yes, we put little notes in the walls too! Sometimes, just smileys, other times, Warren Buffett quotes. Ha!!
Great work. Very good beers consumed/injury ratio. Mine is usually the inverse. I’d also like to see an ISSW (Index and Severity of Swear Words). This measure tends to have an inverse relation to the beers consumed.
Hilarious!
Yes, my jobs are never swear free. We have a relative who has been taking our kids out of the home while we work, so I can swear with reckless abandon now too.
Nice job, I love seeing the progress updates!
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Thanks Quinn!
I love the way you write the progress! And yeah, I laughed a little about the beers consumed. I can feel you are having fun with the project. Keep it up! I can’t wait for more updates.
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