My Renovation "Scrapbook" (sort of)
A collection of my kitchen Renovation ideas, progress etc
A scrapbook of my little 4-part project … shareable if appropriate, accessible remotely, kind of organizing my thoughts, all to do with the renovation started in August 2011 executed in Q1/2012.
4 Parts:
4 Parts:
1. Kitchen: remove cabinets, new porcelain floor through bathroom, Ikea cabinets, and new stainless appliances including gas range
2 2 Bathroom floor tiling, new vanity .... polished porcelain,
3 Sand stain finish upstairs oak floors, to roughly match ground floor,
4. "Skim-coat" finish LR, DR. kind of a refresh plastering of ceiling
…. my initial sketch ( Ikea software) :
scrapbook is to be irregularly updated (most recent ..... Feb 28/12)
New cabinets Ikea, assembled myself ..easy
various ... updatedJan22
the new floor, new toilet ... both upstairs bathrooms
old oak floors .... sanded but not stained
oak had been under very! well worn green broadloom
4 new stainless appliances, incl gas range
high end slate porcelain floors are striking!!! ...
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taken with new Lumix, glass doors dont show
floor is not so "orangey" as the pic suggests
has interior lights in the glass door cabinets
white quartz countertop $5K measured Feb1 ...another 3 weeks
quarter-round install
area carpets
As it looked before reno started:
(floor was really bad)
as it looked Jan 12 2012
previous built in bookcase
..the planning phase (using Ikea software)
updated Dec 19 2011 (final)
looking right
looking left
my inspiration, (Ikea)
gas, (replacing elec) ... requires $350 hookup
over stove MW/fan will free counterspace
looks very natural slate like, is porcelain
highend, but why not when labour is so costly
high end for bathrooms
vanity sink combo for ensuite
smooth-rolling drawers
side by side 25cu ft
area rugs for refinished floors upstairs, reasonable $
ultra-plain white-ish tile backsplash after quartz
