This past week was our largest spending week, made possible with the purchase of new appliances and kitchen cabinets. And those purchases meant we had one last demo project, the kitchen.
Cabinets out, and then the floor. Unfortunately, the floor turned out to be a horrendously hard task. There were six total layers of flooring, every one of them with insane amounts of staples and brads and nails and glue. After some backbreaking work, we finally made it to the subfloor.
And guess what we found when we got there?
You guessed it, termite damage.
After taking out the boards that needed replaced, it became apparent I would need to reinforce five or six floor joists that had also fell victim to this vile insect. And since that would require another trip to the lumber yard that I didn't have time enough left in the day to do, the Missus and I tackled a different task.
Earlier in the week we'd met with some friends who own a business called Balsam Design, and they helped us finally get a handle on our scattered ideas for the kitchen. We settled on a layout, moved some things around, and probably the biggest thing, we decided the half wall we'd left when we vaulted the ceilings, was now going to move about a foot into the great room. This would allow for lots of things down the road, but the most important thing that did was allow me to create a sturdy anchor for the tall wall at the end of the house. Bring on the wind, this house isn't going anywhere.
And last but not least, a friend came over and helped clean up the walls in the bathroom which means we're now ready for tile around the shower. And Alli spent a couple hours of backbreaking work clearing the floors for tile there.
A long day, but we're almost there.
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