Welcome back to the fourth installment of Kitchen Reno Week! If you missed my updates earlier this week, you can check out our weekend prep, Day 1, and Day 2!
When I left you yesterday morning, the kitchen looked like this and we were hoping for a successful building inspection by the City:
I was thrilled to get a text from Sam around 11:30am that the inspection was a success! I was pretty confident because our contractors are awesome, but you just never know. With that underway, they got back to work and at the end of Day 3 when I got home from work it was looking like this:
Um, omg. It’s like a real room. A real single room.
As you can tell, once the inspection happened the rest of the day was dedicated to putting up sheetrock. Or “rock,” as the pros call it (I am not a pro). Sam snapped a few photos:
Below you can see how they perfectly cut a piece to fit with the jagged edges on the left side of the photo above:
And you can see all the screws they use to attach the sheetrock to the underlying structure.
I thought Day 2 was a huge change, but it’s hard to believe how far it’s come yet again!
These pictures really show how much light we’re bringing into the rest of the house. You can see how light the sunroom is compared to the rest of the kitchen — these photos are right before sunset when light is just streaming into the windows on the right side of the sunroom (in the photo below), where there are no kitchen windows. It creates such a nice warm glow, and I’m so excited we’ll be able to enjoy that more in the main part of the house.
Even though the bulk of the work has been completed, the mudding and spackle portion can still take awhile because it requires multiple coats with sanding and dry time. The hope is that what they put on yesterday will be dry today for sanding and then that they can apply a second coat and hopefully be ready to sand again tomorrow morning on their final day. Today I’m working from home, but I’m in non-stop meetings from 9:30am – 4:30pm so I’m not sure how many photos I’ll be able to snap. (One thing I love about my job is that it’s pretty easy to work remotely when needed, even on days with a lot of meetings.)
It’s hard to believe it, but we’re nearing the end of this project! Of course it will leave us with a TON more work to do to get this kitchen to a “final” state, but it’s such a huge step.
Wahey! Exciting! I like the US name sheetrock – we call it plasterboard (and mudding is plastering!), and right now I have a couple of guys in my bedroom (ooh err!) plasterboarding and plastering to fix where the old plaster fell off when we stripped the wallpaper (it was 3 inches thick!), and where we removed some sexy 60s glass panes from the top of the wall which joins the hallway. I can’t wait to have smooth, clean walls – a blank canvas to start making my dream bedroom. Though tonight we are sleeping on the couch downstairs!
Excited to see more of your progress as it happens! x
Very exciting! I hope your reno is going smoothly! It’s so exciting, but also exhausting!
Projects are so fast when a pro does them compared to DIYing. Smart to have a pro do this piece of it. Looking good.
So true! Now that they’re gone and we’re bumbling our way through the next steps ourselves, I wish I could get them back! 🙂
This is so encouraging. I’m looking at major and minor reno over the summer, and I’m nervous about it. Bathroom guys are coming next week to measure.
My favorite thing about YOUR reno so far is snaking the pipes! LOL !
Exciting! It will feel overwhelming at times but also exhilarating. It’s so cool to see how your home can change, but it involves a lot of work and patience.
The pipe work was genius!