Additional kitchen progress at the Blaus house

Well, today, we have managed to make quite abit of progress with our kitchen renovation! It really feels good!!!

Stan and I stayed up into the early hours of morning. We busied ourselves with leveling out the counters, removing the sink and faucet.

When I awakened early this morning, Stan was already up and going at it! Of course, I jumped up to help him. Well...um...maybe JUMPED is a little too much for me. LOL! I kinda lifted myself up slowly, let the blood get to everywhere it needed to be and THEN I got up.

Today's highlights included cutting and laying all of the tile on two countertops. Then...we ran out of the much-needed adhesive! Stan actually "buttered" everything thicker than he needed to. Oh, well, this way our tiles should stay in place. They better anyway! LOL! I am so proud of Stan! With all of the tiles that he cut, he never made any mistakes which would equal ruined tiles.

While Stan was doing all of this, the girls and I managed to "melt" the last of the old Formica off of the last countertop. We used a heat gun to help us. It helped a lot! It was definitely a good feeling when we saw the last of that!!!

I would love to be able to say that we also got everything grouted and the new faucet, dishsoap and lotion pumps installed, however, we just learned that this particular adhesive needs to set up for a minimum of 24 hours before grouting can be done. So, we should be able to grout and seal tomorrow evening. After which, we can reconnect the sink and water to the kitchen. Right now, our refrigerator is all that is connected to the water line so we have really great filtered water and ice! Unfortunately, until the sink is reconnected, the dishwasher is useless to us. In other words, cooking a meal in our home is practically un-do-able.

Oh, well, soon everything will be completed and we will be living in a more beautiful and better organized kitchen than ever!

As soon as all is finished, I will be posting pictures here for all to see!

Have a great week!

VLE-B