Cabinets going in...

Mmm, photos are worth a thousand words.
What do you think? :)

Mmm, Island hood. Mmm, new ceiling.

Mmm, new ceiling. Note also the hood, which was a royal pain to level.

Mmm, the hood. those post-its were to help me level it, and say things like "low" or "high" or "good". Those two little ones under the lip say "No!" because the power is ON but the blowers are NOT vented to the outdoors yet. So, no touchy. You'll never guess who turned one on by accident and got dust all over the island a couple days ago ;)

Oh & while there was no island under it, William walked right into the corner making a beeline for the sink. Then he told me about it later, and he was pointing at the corner he walked into, and there was a little sprout of hair stuck to it! CSI Vermont! My response? "You better not have knocked it out of level! - I mean, are you OK?" :)

My goodness, you look familiar. Have we met before?

Seriously, you even smell familiar.

Didn't I murder you the other night?

Well shoot, I guess I'll have to do it again later.

Now, how to knock this over...

The floor goes in...

It's adorable Kagan, the way you think Natalie might want to help with annoying kitchen remodeling tasks. How amusing. =)

She did help a little bit with the rip out.

New 1/4 inch subfloor... We did NOT do our own floor, that was done by a nice guy named Randy that subs for Main Street Flooring in Essex. They were pretty good even though there was a giant delay in getting samples and thus it set everything else back, that's not really their fault.

Long view of the subfloor

Mmmmm, blue. This is a really nice floor y'all will see when you visit, and not at all too dark because the light bounces all around the cabinets and counters and doesn't have a chance to get sucked up by the floor. Which I polished until it shines like the top of the Chrysler building.

Grrr.

Grrrrrrrr.

Yikes.

What we've been up to :)

Some ceiling tiles in place! Kevin and Jim started it, we hired Kevin to take down the old tiles and do a bunch in the middle, then Jim and I finished up about the last third. And the part around the hood, which was tricky. :)

Naughty kitty, helping hold down that little stack of tiles.

Jungle kitty! This beautiful amaryllis bloomed (I have photos of that too), then was mysteriously broken off in the night. It *was* leaning, but this kitty likes to sit in the pot so I can't help but be suspicious. (It's in a vase now.)

No more cooktop!

No more island!

Mmm, linoleum from 1972.

Whoah, Yech! (cute doggy though!)

Yep, nothing left but the sink at this point (this was wed night very late of last week, 4/11.) As it turns out, not having a sink like just the last few days is *very* annoying.

Next, the new floor! :)

Kitchen Demolition Derby

March 18th.

Several Days Later...

Aww, the Peeps. :)

The white & black kitty is Chadwick, Romni's nice cat.

(as opposed to Max, the other one.)

No crappy hood over the island...

No ceiling over the island...

Natalie's (other) birthday party :)

Mock up of the new island. Jim is testing out our mock rangetop.

New cabinets AND floor are in, pics over the weekend!

Natalie's Birthday Blanket

Here are some pictures from Natalie's birthday party.
Mama stole the show with her fah-bu-lous birthday blanket, made of scraps of many of Natalie's pajama pants. What a lovely brand new heirloom! :)

The partygoers

The cake, which was covered in saran wrap with candles poked through. Ha HA, NO GERMS! =)

Mama's beautiful blanket, installed.