And the project begins....

So we started our kitchen project in a rush.

After 8 months of design, going back and forth, permitting, budgeting, rebudgeting, getting cold feet, recomitting, not really understanding that one day we’d have to begin to tear down walls….

We had a meeting with Maurice, our contractor, on Saturday, September 13, and he told us he wanted to start on Monday. We freaked out, needless to say, and had to spend the whole weekend cleaning out the basement to fit the stuff we moved out of the office to fit the stuff we had to move to the office to set up the kitchen which didn’t fit all of our kitchen stuff so we had to move more
stuff around in the basement to fit the kitchen stuff we couldn’t fit in the office. Whew. We were exhausted. In addition, Zach moved to Santa Cruz that weekend and we had to help him pack up his stuff. He was the lucky recipient of a bunch of kitchen extras that we simply could not face packing into more boxes.

Anyway, late Sunday night I realized I didn’t have any “before” pictures, so I rushed around taking them at night — bad lighting, so the kitchen looks even darker than it normally would look, making the “before” pictures even worse then the kitchen even is, or was, actually. The change will be even more dramatic once we put the “after” pictures next to these!