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The last time we talked about our remodel was way back in September, after the new floor had gone down. I’m happy to say that we’re done – at last!

Picking a countertop was tough for us. We looked at a dozen marbles and two dozen granites. A Silestone top called “Stellar Meadow” caught our eye but Marla and I joked that it was the kind of thing you liked but would never buy. So, of course, we did.

Hallelujah! While having walls was nice and all, having cabinets is even better. I returned home last week after a quick jaunt to Cary, NC to find that our formerly barren kitchen now had a full suite of beautiful cabinets installed and ready to be trimmed.

So we’ve got sheetrock now. In a few short days they closed up all of the exposed walls and ceiling, properly mounted the light cans amd receptacles. Texturing the ceiling and walls was done shortly thereafter.

We’re all done with the destruction and we’re starting to see things go back together. After about four days of hauling things out of the kitchen Sea Pointe started bringing new materials into the kitchen to build a new soffit above the cabinets.

The last entry was “Deconstruction” and I wondered where the smashing and breaking and destroying were. Just a day or so later and we had all the dust and exposed framing and electrical you could ask for.

It is amazing to me that it can take 8 weeks to rebuild our kitchen but only a day to deconstruct most of the existing one. On the first day of our remodel two guys spent approximately 4 hours removing cabinets and counters.

When we moved in in 2001 we lived with original appliances until we just couldn’t take it anymore. In 2003 we painted the cabinets. Tomorrow we throw it all away begin the nearly two month project of bringing our 16 year old kitchen into the modern era.