Blank Canvas

Our contractor and the sheet rock guy showed up at 8:30 this morning to begin demolition of our kitchen. I got honest to goodness butterflies in my stomach when I saw them getting out of their trucks. They got right to work making lots of noise pounding away at our cupboards and breaking them apart. Sophie wouldn't go anywhere near the kitchen unless I was with her holding her hand, but Camille slept through the whole thing. By 10:30, the cupboards were down and hauled outside and they began to knock out the dropped ceilings that were above our old cabinets and do some of the nitty-gritty cleaning up. After taking a lunch break and a trip to the dump, they were back re-wiring for our refrigerator, stove and garbage disposal, and patching up sheet rock. After that the flooring in the kitchen was removed, and by 5:00 we were left with free space for the kids to run in. A blank canvas. Maybe we should just keep it this way.....

The up side to the day is that we found a heat duct that had been hidden under the kitchen sink cabinet. When the new cabinets are in, we will actually have that vented. I'm excited for that. I love heat on my cold feet while working at the kitchen sink. We also found lots of dead cockroaches (which is the main reason we got serious about this remodel in the first place). The down side to the day is that we have to replace our kitchen flooring. We can't find the laminate style that we got from Lowe's 3 years ago. They don't carry it anymore. Now we will spend the weekend looking at new flooring and deciding how to make it look good with the perfectly good wood laminate we have everywhere else. There is no way we are replacing everything. We also saw some live cockroaches which means we will be spraying and bombing the kitchen again to try and get rid of them once and for all. Wish us luck!