Day 1: Demolition

So we'd been planning on starting the kitchen demolition on the May long weekend, but then we go a call from the guy we wanted to do our floors.  We have hardwood in the kitchen, installed by a previous owner, but they hadn't put in under the existing cabinets.  Since we are planning on changing the layout of the kitchen, we had to get the floor patched and re-finished.  We were also planning on getting the hardwood in the rest of the living space refinished as well.  We had planned on getting this all done in June, but the flooring guy called and said that some other jobs he had already committed to were delayed and now he was no longer free in June.  But he was free in May!  So last Saturday, May 7, 2011 was day 1 of the kitchen renovation.

Day 1:

Of course, the first thing that had to be done was clearing out the cabinets, telephone, etc. from the kitchen.  Then my DH began the demolition.  It was very satisfying to see it all torn down.  It took about three days to get the whole kitchen cleared out and another two days to take down all of the cabinets.  We also decided to take out a built-in cabinet in the living room (since we were going to be getting a dumpster anyway...).

Here's what it looks like so far:
Kitchen Before:

Here are some pictures of the built-in:

And now for the after picture:

 

And since we are getting the floors refinished, all of our belongings as well as our kids have been moved to the basement.  Crazy!