Here we are, nearly two years later and oh, so happily tearing out.<\/p>\n
I could not wait to see the carpet go. \u00a0The house still has a funny smell, particularly noticeable when we are gone for a day or two and I’ve been blaming the soiled carpet. \u00a0Now, I’m not so sure it wasn’t the cabinets. \u00a0The cabinets were all crumbling, but the sink cabinet was badly rotted out from a leaky plumbing system. \u00a0When we pulled it away from the wall we discovered mold. \ud83d\ude41 \u00a0I took a plastic container and some cleaning supplies to the basement to store during the remodel and every time I walked down the steps I could smell that smell.<\/p>\n David came up with the absolutely brilliant idea to store the dishes in the existing cabinets. \u00a0I’ve been getting rid of more and more boxes since the basement is finished and hadn’t bothered to keep the empty ones around. \u00a0I have no idea how he dared to stand there holding up a cabinet while I stood on tiptoe behind him with a power drill to unscrew them, but he did. \u00a0He balanced them and when they were unscrewed we carried them out to the deck where we recreated the kitchen.<\/p>\n This is perfect! Quick and easy. No need for boxes. \u00a0No room full of boxes and dishes and chaos. \u00a0We’re planning to not cook and to use disposables, but in the event I need something, I know exactly where to look. \u00a0David covered everything with a tarp to protect it from rain, but I still opted to keep cookbooks inside.<\/p>\n The boys are nearly swaggering around in their sheer delight at wearing tool belts and being involved in demolition. Adam ripped up the metal divider between the old linoleum and the dining room carpet. \u00a0You always expect to see a huge difference in flooring where it’s been protected, but it still never fails to shock me at just how nasty carpet gets!<\/p>\n We’re rearranging the kitchen layout a bit so that the stove has cabinetry on either side of it and so that there are outlets accessible anywhere on the countertop. \u00a0Since he had to cut drywall and re-wire anyway, David is running wires for under cabinet lighting. \u00a0He’s also getting rid of the very poor ceiling lights and installing can lights. I am so proud of that man. \u00a0He is not afraid of hard work, but he is also not even daunted by a project he doesn’t know how to do. \u00a0In the basement project when an electrician couldn’t come, he called his dad who used to do it years ago and the two of them figured it out together. \u00a0He did plumbing the same way and taught himself how to drywall.<\/p>\n Zara is the one having a hard time with all of this. \u00a0She hates noise and makes displeased noises if Adam tries to practice piano when she wants to go to sleep. \u00a0The loudness of construction tools has pretty much put her over the edge. \u00a0Thankfully, there was a lull this afternoon while David fished wires so she could take one long nap. \u00a0If cutting drywall did her in, I’m thinking she and I might be walking the road in a stroller the day the hardwood gets installed.<\/p>\n![\"July](\"http:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/July-14_0712.jpg\")
<\/a>\u00a0[I will not miss these cabinets one iota. \u00a0Not the countertops that weren’t attached and had to be readjusted because they tended to slide off center. \u00a0Not the cabinets that were never set on the level and so eggs and rolling pins rolled right off of them. \u00a0Not the countertop edge that kept coming off and finally had to be screwed into place and still managed to snag my clothes. \u00a0Not the inefficiency of the layout. \u00a0Not the interior that crumbled or the raw plywood replacing a missing shelf or the rotted out cabinet under the sink. \u00a0Goodbye cabinets. \u00a0I’m not even shedding a tear.]<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n