Mustang Garage kitchen remodel

thomask said:

Mustanggarage:

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

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say it isn't so.

I finished scraping the texture on the ceiling last night. the electrician has the new recessed lights installed and most of the wiring done. the inspection is tomorrow and if all goes well I will be able to drywall this weekend.

I certainly hope so. my daughter has really bad allergies to dust and mold. she has had to live with a friend for the last couple of weeks because she had such a bad reaction to the nasty stuff falling out of the attic. once I get the drywall buttoned up she can come back home.

I will try to get some pictures of the wiring tonight.

mustanggarage said:

I finished scraping the texture on the ceiling last night. the electrician has the new recessed lights installed and most of the wiring done. the inspection is tomorrow and if all goes well I will be able to drywall this weekend.

I certainly hope so. my daughter has really bad allergies to dust and mold. she has had to live with a friend for the last couple of weeks because she had such a bad reaction to the nasty stuff falling out of the attic. once I get the drywall buttoned up she can come back home.

I will try to get some pictures of the wiring tonight.

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Hey there, I was just up in the attic running some CTV cable. That insulation is some real nasty stuff and it was already up in the 90s in the attic for April. My hat is off to those guys that work for a living in attics and on roofs.

Can not wait to see what you did with the can lights, it really adds to a remodel and they stay in style, better than madras and paisley.

I agree with you on the guys that go up in attics. fortunately we have had a bit of a cold snap here the last few days. he waited to do the attic stuff until today because we were expecting snow. didn't get much snow but it did stay in the mid to high 30's most of the day so it was not as bad up there as it would have been last week. the can lights definitely open the place up some more. the ceiling is only 8 feet high so anything that hangs down always seems to make the space seem enclosed. the lights are installed so they put the light where we need it. they are not placed symmetrically, and the rafters required placing them in some less than perfect places but it will provide much more light than I currently have. I still can't find my stupid camera. if I don't find it tonight I will take some cell phone pics tomorrow. the plumber is coming tomorrow to talk about some of the stuff I want to do in the mud room. the washer and dryer sit right inside the door to the garage and I do not like that so I am going to relocate them over by the bathroom and someday put in a utility sink right there inside the door. so I need to do some plumbing re arranging. can't wait to get the drywall going.

ok I finally had to ask my wife where the camera was and of course she knew right where it was. anyway I took a few pictures of the electrical progress.

first here is the only picture I could find of the kitchen before we started. my wife does not think this is a very flattering picture of her so she would kill me if she knew I posted it, but anyway here is what the kitchen looked like after we removed all the old ugly wallpaper and border but before we started this project.



now here are some pictures of how it looks currently.










I swapped out the old window that had those crank open windows which of course stripped out years ago. I replaced it with just a plane casement slider. nothing to strip out and go bad. it also is a bit bigger than the old window.

I took a few pics today, but I left the camera in the house so I will try and post them tomorrow. we have about 90 percent of the drywall up on the walls. fortunately I had a friend from church come over to help me. he is retired from the airforce. and he was a carpenter/ do everything guy for them. so he has been doing drywall for many years. he made it go so much faster it was unbelievable. we still need to do some work in the little bathroom. the plumbers had to rip some off to re-do some of the old nasty plumbing that was in there. the pipes were completely corroded, they even found an old roll of toilet paper stuck in the wall behind the drywall. I need to talk to the contractor to decide how to manage that room. I pulled the sink and vanity out but I left the toilet in for now because it is convenient for the guys coming in to work. but I need to pull it in order to finish the drywall, and it is going by by anyway. we picked up the new sink and mighty ferguson yesterday. we decided to go with the champion max 4. they have been showing commercials on it on diy forever so I guess if I get the urge to flush a bucket of golf balls I am covered lol. anyway getting the drywall up is always a major step, we can now start to see how the room is going to look.

Looking good MG! Do you folks have a temporary kitchen set up while the build is in progress? Or are you doing a lot of eating out?

actually that is one of the good things about this project. our house is an older ranch style house with a finished basement, and for some reason there is a second kitchen downstairs complete with sink, refrigerator stove and microwave. we just moved our kitchen table down into the area that had a pool table when we bought the place. and we are actually set up pretty well. there is not near enough cabinetry so most of our stuff is in boxes, but the room right off the downstairs kitchen is our main foodstorage room so it actually is working out pretty easily. if it were not for all of the dust and allergens in the air we would be sitting pretty good. we had never really used that kitchen much before except to keep pop and drinks in the fridge and occasionally to make popcorn in the microwave. I am really not sure why it is there but we are glad for it right now. I will post some pics of the downstairs kitchen in all of its over stuffed glory soon as well.

ok I took some pics of the downstairs kitchen with my cell phone. it is so much easier to use I can take the pics and upload directly to photobucket from the phone. I took pics of the kitchen progress with my regular camera it takes better pictures but I have to copy them to my computer and upload them so I don't have them yet. anyway here is the downstairs kitchen. it is way nicer looking than our upstairs kitchen was, just very small.






here is our food storage room with boxes of dishes and pots and pans for right now. (this room is in desperate need of being redone some day as well but it works.

That is really cool. My next home I would like it to be older and have neat stuff like that. My house is a typical CA home. Not a lot of square footage and not an inch of extra space or even enough space for a normal houseful of people. I would love to have a basement.

Chris said:

That is really cool. My next home I would like it to be older and have neat stuff like that. My house is a typical CA home. Not a lot of square footage and not an inch of extra space or even enough space for a normal houseful of people. I would love to have a basement.

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that sounds really strange to me. we really do not care for our house much. we bought it because it had what we wanted at a price we could afford. it had the big back yard which is what I wanted so that I would have room for my dogs and my doghouse. beyond that I didn't care. in our former home we had a really nice house which was basically our dream house with vaulted ceilings a nice great room, everything we always wanted but we had to move because of financial issues. so we bought this house because it was relatively inexpensive. but I really do not like ranch style homes. I let my wife choose the house and I think in retrospect all she looked at was that it had the yard I wanted and it was the least expensive home we looked at. but neither of us like the place much. it had 7 tiny bedrooms an outdated kitchen upstairs, the master bedroom is tiny and it has a shared master bath. the downstairs has the kitchen, a large family room, a decent bathroom and 3 small bedrooms, plus the mechanical room and the storage room. so we are trying to make it more like what we want. so far we have not done much to the place because I really just live in the garage so I really don't care much what the house looks like lol. but since I am doing this kitchen I want to make it as nice as I can without breaking the bank.


here are the latest pics.





here is the mess in the bathroom.

You sure have lots of power available in the new room. Great thinking!

Like the work.

I have two tiny bedrooms and an ok sized master. Two bathrooms a living room and kitchen, thats all besides my 3 car garage. A whopping 1500 Square feet and I paid as much for this place as most would for a six or seven bedroom home not in CA.

I'm looking for a two bedroom, 3 bath home, with a 5 car garage. Think I'll have any luck?

Only if I built it.

havasu said:

I'm looking for a two bedroom, 3 bath home, with a 5 car garage. Think I'll have any luck?

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when I was growing up my parents always joked that someday I would live in a garage with an attached house lol.

as far as the power goes you can never have too many outlets I say, and many of these are for certain things like the microwave, the fridge, the stove has both a 220v for my stove and a 110 in case someone wants to put a gas stove in some day. It had a gas line coming up through the floor but I capped that below floor level so it is not in the way. it would be easy to run it back up as the ceiling under there is open in a small closet in the storage room. also I have one box for the floor heat thermostat. so lots of outlets are already spoken for.

anyway it is coming along slowly but surely.

pulled the toilet last night night and finished the drywall in that room, as well as finishing the drywall around the window. I do not want to put any wood trim around the window, I just want to drywall with corner molding around the window so when I put my cabinets, countertop and backsplash in I don't have to mess with window trim. besides I have always liked the look of the windows just merging in to the wall. I will however probably add some sort of sill to it possibly, what I don't want is to make a shelf where my wife will be sitting stuff lol. I want to keep it clear so I may just leave it.

Hey looking good, first you live through the demo and then the neat new stuff starts going in. Each board, each nail is one more part of a geat picture you are painting there. I always enjoy looking back at pictures of before and how a project seems to come together. If you built the same house five times you could fine tune it each time a little better.

I am starting soon on our guest bath and will be watching your progress here.

Some of you may have noted I am working my remodel toward the garage!

I just can't wait til I find the house I want to live the rest of my life in. My house now is nice but it is in a tract and will be too small with another kid.

Chris said:

I just can't wait til I find the house I want to live the rest of my life in. My house now is nice but it is in a tract and will be too small with another kid.

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this was certainly not the house I wanted to live the rest of my life in, however sometimes you just deal with what you have. I had a beautiful house in Utah but the job was not optimal. I don't think you ever find the perfect place you just have to make it what you want, or at least as close as you can. this house will never be what I wanted because I always wanted vaulted ceilings and an upstairs for the kids bedrooms not a basement. but again you deal with what you have. btw we are starting the mudding and taping today. that will take a while.