Renovations

For about a year or so, Kevin has been talking about expanding our kitchen. Our kitchen was tiny, and we didn’t really have room for a table in there (although we did have two fish tanks). We figured that we wouldn’t be able to do it for awhile with the whole grad school expense thing. Then we found out that our Christmas present/repayment for the time Kevin spent in Salina helping his dad work on a new rental house would be Kevin’s dad helping us expand our kitchen. It was a small project expense wise because we had leftover supplies from the basement.

I thought construction and demolition would start after Christmas; however, as I arrived home on December 11, the day before I had a major paper due (and I had only managed to knock out three or four pages so far), I found that demolition had begun and the desktop (the location of my paper and all of my notes) was in various pieces and places throughout the house. Fortunately, Kevin quickly got it back together. 

Now that we are over a month in, the project is nearly complete. The flooring is completed and the shelving is in. I think the biggest thing we have left is painting. We have already hosted family dinner at our house, which was really nice because we didn’t have to transport food to Kevin’s parents’ house. 

Here are some pictures of our progress so far (I don’t have a picture of the completed closet, but just imagine shelves in there. Also, excuse the mess; we live busy lives, and unfortunately that is currently not at the top of my priority list.) The last picture is of the remnants of the wall. When we finish I will post some before and after pictures.