Restore This.

Restore This.
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Kitchen Demolition (The Real Story).

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Dishwasher Panel Progress

Testing on the machine
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I am 3/4 of the way through making a custom panel to fit my dishwasher. It is made of recycled douglas fir beams.

I blog most of the construction details at my woodworking blog:

Hope to finish it up this week and get it installed this weekend.

No more plastic edging!

Destructa!
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We spent WAY too much money having our garden "landscaped" last year.

The little voice was telling us, " No plastic edging." But our landscaper would not abide. "It's gonna look real nice."

Finally Kristin and I tore it out today. We are going to let the grass spread to the back. Freedom!

The gardeners are going to kill us.

Post edging

Kitchen Details

Testing.....Testing

Tile work continued on the backspash.

We tried out a fish liner that we loved in the store. It is art deco-ish and pricey. Unfortunately it did not work out. The liner was too busy for such a small space and it brought attention to the out of level original upper cabinets.

That was a stressful day. Dennis pulled the last couple rows of tile off the wall and we all cleaned it in preparation for a new day.

Back Splash and Grout

Just like the hex tiles the backsplash subway is a creamy color called talc. We went round for two days on how to finish the edges and ended up using a 2x6 surface bullnose in olive.

The corner piece was a we got lucky. I called the tile place and they ended up having a piece of corner radius bullnose. We ripped it down to fit in the space. Looks great. The grout color is called alabaster.

Looking the other way.

Fixtures and Lights Finally. Plumbing! Yeah!... We had been washing our dishes in the bathroom sink which doesn't really work too well. So Richard our plumber arrived on time as promised. Bubbles Plumbing rocks! Ding That's an endorsement.

Pretty.. Huh?

The faucet is from Strom Sign of the Crab. It is unpolished nickel so it should patina with time and lots of touching.

The sink is a ROHL Alia sink. Fireclay and super deep. You can see the Olive bullnose tile in these pics.

Now on to the best part....

We have been dying to hang these lights. The sink light is from architecturalsalvage in San Diego. We bought it along time ago and hung it above the fireplace for a bit. Now it is in its perfect home. You can see the tile mortar bed in these pics but it will be covered by a piece of trim soon.

The colonial style fixture we put up. It had been painted brown and gold prior and we did not really love it. Then we stripped the paint to find this great fixture under it. We bought shades at Pasadena Architectural Salvage last week. It looks really good.

The kitchen lights run off of our restored rotary switch. We stripped the paint off of it and cleaned the works. It functions just fine.

These School House Lights were purchased at a secret location in San DIego. We have had them around for awhile. I originally planned to put them in the kitchen proper, but decided to stick them out on the breakfast porch instead and keep brass fixtures in the kitchen.