After years of dreaming, months of planning and weeks of waiting, The Avocado Kitchen is finally being torn out. With the help of Nate's dad, we dove straight into deconstruction over the holiday weekend, tearing out all the upper cabinets in the joint.
What we learned:
- Deconstruction is part-surgery, part-massacre. Assessing the details of how the cabinets are constructed, how they're affixed to the wall and what the potential pratfalls of tearing them out is certainly important, but in the end, there's no way to complete the process without a little brute strength.
- There is no ceiling concealed behind the soffits in our kitchen, so in order to tear the soffits out as planned, we'll need a few extra steps to build in a ceiling on our own. This shouldn't be a particularly costly process, but will push our reno. plans back by at least a week or two.
- Our new kitchen will be even more airy and open than we imagined. Tearing out the dated, quintessentially '70s hanging cabinets has already made such a difference to the look and feel of the room.
Next, we'll be scheduling a set of deadlines for each phase of this project, including the ceiling, walls, floors, electrical, plumbing and cabinets. No biggie.
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