Mustang Garage kitchen remodel

ok, well this is not really garage stuff but it does lead to garage stuff so I will post some pics up. here is a picture I took after I had pulled about half of the old cabinets out. they actually don't look to bad in this pic but they are pretty old and messed up. there is about 3 layers of linoleum on the floor and it needs some serious renovation.

in the beginning.

Your cabinets look identical to mine. I'm looking forward to this remodel and who cares when the forum name is, your remodel thread is welcome!

thanks havasu. we finished removing the cabinets today. the soffit above the upper cabinets will hopefully be gone tomorrow. I also pulled the carpet up in the dining room and started knocking the dining room wall down. I plan to move it a couple feet into that small office room, making it smaller but moving the dining room table out from in front of the french doors to the deck. this will also allow me to add another 30 inches of cabinets. tomorrow I also need to move the door going into the mud room so that I can put cabinets along that wall. it will make this into a galley style kitchen which is not my favorite but will work best with my space constraints.







here are some renderings of what we hope the final result will resemble.





looking toward the dining room. which is on the other side of the peninsula.



looking toward the kitchen from the dining room.

Looks like a good concept. Please tell me that is not a load bearing wall you are removing?

no it is not a load bearing wall. and I am not removing it anyway I am just moving it back 2 feet, but I am going to put the new stud wall in before I remove those studs anyway. I removed the plaster so I could inspect the wiring to make sure that was not going to be an issue. but this is a ranch style house and the trusses run parallel to that wall, not a load bearing wall.

I hope you keep the posts coming. I myself have done three kitchen tear downs and love the progress!

Kitchen remodel is planned for next winter after we rebuild the deck on the back. CAD sure is a great tool to visualize how things will look and aid in planning. Good job!

Hey we like building anything so keep those pictures coming!

I am sure glad you guys are catching on the drill here...A wise man knows what he does in his garage and his toy collection are directly related to the support he has from "management". You are doing a good thing for management here.

That plan looks GOOD!

Since I'm hoping that this thread will show the progression of the kitchen remodel, I moved the posts and made a section dedicated to it. Good luck and keep us in the loop!

Looking good. I will be gutting my mountain house this summer. Looking forward to it.

thanks for moving the pics. that will keep it from cluttering the doghouse thread.

I had to work most of the night monday and late tuesday so I did not get much done last night. I did however get the rest of the soffit removed and the resultant holes covered with plastic. I found out that the rafters are not true trusses but constructed rafters and they are placed 16 inches on center so that means I am going to have to put some bridges between the rafters where I plan to move that wall in the dining room. it won't really change anything it will just make it a little more work. I was hoping that they would be engineered trusses on 2 foot centers. regardless the work will continue. If I get off work in time tonight I will maybe start on that. this weekend my wife has decreed that we are going to oklahoma to visit my son at college so probably not going to get a lot more done until next week.

oldognewtrick said:

Kitchen remodel is planned for next winter after we rebuild the deck on the back. CAD sure is a great tool to visualize how things will look and aid in planning. Good job!

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yes the CAD thing is great. I went first to Lowes and then Home Depot and talked with them. gave them the measurements for the room and we sat down and within about an hour I had an idea what it would look like. then a bit to my surprise My wife and I had some thoughts so we went to our local lumber yard a Do it Best lumber yard and went through it with them. they came in about a 1,000.00 less on the same cabinets with some nice additional features. I always prefer to buy local if the prices are in the same ballpark. and this lumber yard is usually pretty good, I would have bought local if they had been even a bit higher so it was a real nice surprise when buying local actually costs less :rockin:

anyway these are the renderings I had done at home depot and they are pretty close to the ones that I got at our local place. I just don't have the digital copies to put up here.

I guess since I am going to do a full build thread here I might as well set the ground work. we had several goals in mind for this remodel.

1. open the space up so that it does not seem so tight. I will try to find some before pictures (we hated the kitchen so much that we did not take any pictures on purpose)

2. get rid of the lazy susans in the corner cabinets my wife hates the fact that things always fall off them and get stuck back where you can't get to it.

3. update the cabinets (these cabinets were all handmade and built in out of plywood. the construction quality was pretty good. It was some major work to get them apart and out.

4. get rid of all the multicolored vinyl on the floor and walls. (yes there was vinyl flooring on the walls.

5. replace the vinyl countertop with a nice solid surface. My wife loves the granite countertops.

6. get an undermount sink both for aesthetics and cleanliness. (we are basically lazy when it comes to cleaning. we aren't really in to cooking and hate cleaning so ease of cleanup is going to be a major theme. that is why we will be using a ceramic cooktop and not a gas range.)

7. replace the floor covering in the kitchen, dining room, mud room and powder room with a uniform tile to tie the spaces together. that is the same kind of tile in all 4 rooms.

8. in floor heat to make the tile warm. we will be going with a company called warmly yours. they have the best warranty in the business and it seems amazingly affordable.

9. open up the view from the front door so that when you come in you can see right through to the back deck through the french doors, not look right at the kitchen table. (this is not going to be quite as good as I had hoped because the walls and windows are not going to cooperate quite as well as I had envisioned.

10. soft close doors and drawers.


yesterday I ordered the cabinets. the countertop will have to wait until the end.

My wife has been looking at color swatches and everything for months. she wants to use an antique serving platter that was her mothers as a focal point and for the color pallette. color selection is totally not my forte' so I will leave that completely up to her.

ok well to show the degree of need for this remodel here are a few more pics.

this is the view from the door going into my wife's garage. looking toward the kitchen.



looking back at the garage door.





half bathroom.



now I am as big a fan of the stars and stripes as anyone, but that wall paper is ridiculous in that small space. and the fake wainscoating is seriously dated.

I ended up pretty well demolishing the kitchen.



you can see how I opened up that doorway to allow for the cabinets along the left wall and to improve traffic flow.



I found one tool I hope I never see again in my life. a wallpaper steamer. yes it worked well, but I hope to never have to do that job again.







now I am pretty much ready for the electrician to come in and do his thing. I discovered long ago that while I can do many things. there are definitely things I leave to the professionals. I wired most of my garage myself, but the house for any major work I leave it to the professionals.

I also stripped most of the flooring up, I still have a lot of work to do on the floor before we can lay the tile but that is down the road a bit. I need to pull the sink and toilet out of the half bath but I want to wait a bit because we still need that bathroom so we don't have to track too much dirt into the rest of the house.

that is why contractors get paid the big bucks i guess, coordinating all the subcontractors and managing the scheduling is a major headache. lol.
tomorrow I have to start scraping the texture off the ceiling so they can re-texture it once all the new light fixtures are in.

I hate wallpaper. Glad we don't use it much out here on the left coast. Your project is looking good. I still have a lot of unfinished projects around my place.

Mustanggarage: That really did open things up there!

Hey wall paper will return just like madras shorts and wide ties!

mustanggarage said:

I ended up pretty well demolishing the kitchen.

you can see how I opened up that doorway to allow for the cabinets along the left wall and to improve traffic flow.

I found one tool I hope I never see again in my life. a wallpaper steamer. yes it worked well, but I hope to never have to do that job again.

now I am pretty much ready for the electrician to come in and do his thing. I discovered long ago that while I can do many things. there are definitely things I leave to the professionals. I wired most of my garage myself, but the house for any major work I leave it to the professionals.

I also stripped most of the flooring up, I still have a lot of work to do on the floor before we can lay the tile but that is down the road a bit. I need to pull the sink and toilet out of the half bath but I want to wait a bit because we still need that bathroom so we don't have to track too much dirt into the rest of the house.

that is why contractors get paid the big bucks i guess, coordinating all the subcontractors and managing the scheduling is a major headache. lol.
tomorrow I have to start scraping the texture off the ceiling so they can re-texture it once all the new light fixtures are in.

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Correction that is why we should make the big bucks but that is not always the case! Lookin good so far Mustanggarage!!

yeah I know we all think we should make more and work less. I certainly do lol.

I would prefer to make more and not work at all.