Week 5 of the Kitchen Remodeling project

Another week, but now we're mostly on our own. The lights are hung and the panels are all back on the counters. We've painted the back door and papered the kitchen with anaglypta.


Then on to the painting. The worst thing about painting is the preparation. We went through a lot of plastic drop cloths in the process. Note the lovely blue masking tape all along the ceiling trim.



We had to do it in two stages. First we did the area to the side of the cabinets as you can see above, then we put two coats on the area above the cabinets.



We had to shift all the plastic to cover just the lower cabinets while we painted the area between them and the upper cabinets.



And of course that area had to get two coats as well.



Finally, Karen got to do the decorator thing and start putting her touch on it.



Some of it was a matter of trial and error. We shifted baskets and paintings several times before it looked right.



But it all came together very nicely.



The only thing left is the mosaic we plan to put over the stove. That's the big brown space in this picture.



This is looking from the kitchen through the dining room to the doorway leading to the rest of the house.