Kitchen Renos 1.0

It's been a while since we have done any renos on the house or anything too exciting this winter, so my blog has been really lacking in the recent months.  However, we have just begun the reno process on our kitchen!  We decided in the new year that we want to finish the house up this year, so we thought that we would start with the biggest project and work our way down the to-do list.  

The kitchen planning process began back in February.  We found a kitchen place in the east end which was really good and affordable, as they are geared more for those who are doing a kitchen on a budget (aka you have to pick up the cabinets and install them yourself!).  After many layout revisions, we finally placed an order and waited for them to arrive.  The cabinets came into the store this past Monday and we were able to arrange for someone to deliver them to us on Thursday, so John stayed home to receive them and now our living room looks like this....

We decided that on Friday we would begin packing up and dismantling the kitchen.  Before we began, John wanted to check all the cabinets to make sure we had everything.  It was a good thing we did that, as it turned out that the blind corner cabinet that goes beside the stove is not going to fit, meaning the bank of drawers beside it is also the wrong size.  They didn't give us enough clearance to be able to open the cabinet door with the stove door, so basically we won't be able to open the cabinet because the stove door will prevent it.  After this discovery, we went through the rest of the cabinets and laid out the kitchen as it is to be installed and then decided not to move forward as we didn't know what was going to happen with the wrong cabinets or how long it would take to get new cabinets and we want to have a functional kitchen for as long as possible.

A last look of the kitchen before dismantling!

Alas, a new morning, a new start and I decided that while I waited for breakfast to bake I could at least start packing some of the cabinets up that we don't use that much.  John came down a few minutes later and decided that not only could we pack up but also start dismantling the kitchen....so much for waiting to hear back for the kitchen place!

He started at a couple cabinets before breakfast was ready and then finished taking down all the wall cabinets after breakfast.  It took him a couple tries with the first cabinet to figure out how to get them down, but then they came down pretty quickly after that.  I packed up and moved the things out of the cabinets while he took them down and I would help him take down some of the bigger cabinets.  Here are some pictures of the dismantling progress and how things look now!

You can tell that I'm a baker.  I used the largest box I had to pack up
my baking cabinet and it was still overflowing!

The dumping ground.

She's bare!

Won't be having dinner parties any
time soon!

That's all we got done today.  Not as much as we would have liked to get done, however the rest should come out quickly, so hopefully we will be able to stay within a reasonable timeline despite the set back with the two cabinets.  Pray it goes smoothly, because I already hate having the kitchen like this, so I'm sure it will only get worse as everything comes out!