A Day, A Week, Hemant, A Year

The weekend arrived and that marked the beginning of the actual work for the kitchen renovation. Michelle and I spent Friday night emptying the kitchen in preparation for the demo on Saturday. After a little deliberation we decided to dump everything into the living room We figured we could deal with losing that room for a few days. You can see the initial clutter of our kitchen below.

And after we moved everything out of there, it didn’t look too bad. Very deceiving.

The living room on the other hand was a complete disaster. I wasn’t too sure how I would be able to handle this for the next few days. However I was happy that everything was able to fit in the living room alone. I was really hoping to keep as many rooms as unaffected as possible.

Early Saturday morning the kitchen arrived. I was thinking we would be able to fit all of the boxes in the dining area, but when I saw the truck I knew that would be impossible. The only feasible place to store everything was the garage.  I was really hoping the installers wouldn’t mind hauling everything in as they needed it.

Michelle’s dad arrived not too much later and we started to rip the kitchen apart. I was rather pleased that everything came out without too much trouble. The lower cabinet turned out to be the only thing that wasn’t salvageable.

This was my first foray into demolishing a room in a house and it turned out to be not too bad. My only regret is that I didn’t get to use any dynamite, let alone a sledgehammer. Maybe next time.

With the kitchen being totally cleared out we were now able to start the electrical work. You can seem more pictures from the day on my Flickr site by following the links below.

• Thumbnails on Flickr
• Slideshow on Flickr