First of all, thank you to all the fine members here who gave advice and suggestions over the past 4 months.
We started demolition on New Years Day, and as you can see from the last pic I still need to finish the trim. I've got a BIG pile of roughsawn red alder in the shop waiting to be made into trim.
Also need to finish adding cove above the cabs and light rails under them. Oh, and the kickplate. Actually, I still have so much to do...what's that they say about the final 10%...?
I tackled most everything myself, but did hire a drywall pro. I removed the popcorn texture from the ceiling, but I was not up to patching the holes where the soffits used to be and making the new texture carry across the various old textures.
I also let somebody else do the hardwood (jatoba) floor install...wished I would have done that myself as I'm not impressed with the job they did.
In the perfect world, I would have made the cabinets, but there isn't enough time for that in the real world.
Before:
During:
After:
About the only "woodworking" obvious in any of these pictures is the frame & panel panelling around the new peninsula. I didn't make the corbels as I had planned, but if I had time I could have justified a new band saw purchase for these ones cost me.
More pix HERE if you're interested.
Thanks for looking
We started demolition on New Years Day, and as you can see from the last pic I still need to finish the trim. I've got a BIG pile of roughsawn red alder in the shop waiting to be made into trim.
Also need to finish adding cove above the cabs and light rails under them. Oh, and the kickplate. Actually, I still have so much to do...what's that they say about the final 10%...?
I tackled most everything myself, but did hire a drywall pro. I removed the popcorn texture from the ceiling, but I was not up to patching the holes where the soffits used to be and making the new texture carry across the various old textures.
I also let somebody else do the hardwood (jatoba) floor install...wished I would have done that myself as I'm not impressed with the job they did.
In the perfect world, I would have made the cabinets, but there isn't enough time for that in the real world.
Before:
During:
After:
About the only "woodworking" obvious in any of these pictures is the frame & panel panelling around the new peninsula. I didn't make the corbels as I had planned, but if I had time I could have justified a new band saw purchase for these ones cost me.
More pix HERE if you're interested.
Thanks for looking
Darned glad my wife wasn't watching over my shoulder when I clicked on this post! 
Whenever we dream about things we'd like to do to our hourse, she's pretty casual about demolishing walls, cutting new doors, sealing up old ones, installing new windows through brick walls, etc. She has way more faith in my abilities than I do.
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