Anticipated Remodel Timeline

Bob and I met with Dan (contractor) and Susan (designer) yesterday to go over the project time line with them. Estimated duration = 5 weeks. It could be longer, depending on how long it takes to make the countertops.

Week 1, which starts on Monday, 6/22/09, will see a lot of work done. Old kitchen - gone. Iron railing between kitchen and family room - gone. Faux (textured) paint - gone. Drywall patched where needed, and electric roughed in. Yes, we'll take pictures.

Week 2, old flooring gone, and new flooring installed, cabinets installed, new pantry doors installed, and new casing around the bay window(s) installed. The walls will have one coat of primer, and one coat of the new color (which we'll pick next week).

We still have some packing to do. There' s a fair amount of last minute stuff to move to its new home: coffee pot, glasses by the sink, coffee cups by the coffee pot, all that stuff under the sink, etc. The goal is to have everything out of the kitchen by Saturday evening. My 'camping out' cooking will start with Sunday's meals.

It will be interesting, when this is all over, to see what the biggest hassle was. Today, I'm thinking it will be the lack of a dishwasher. Our powder room, just off the family room, of course has a sink. But it's so tiny we can't use it to wash dishes. So we'll be schlepping our dirty dishes to the basement. We plan on using a lot of disposables (dishes, glasses, KFS, etc.). But there's still going to be dirty "dishes". I don't think they make disposable pots and skillets, or spatulas, tongs, etc.