A New Faucet
We started to notice small drips of water, under the sink, over the few weeks. And then things got a bit more, and a bit more… to the point where we realized we needed a new faucet.
Posts Tagged "kitchen"
Vintage Kitchen Door: Final Paint
It’s really quite amazing to see how bright things look, and how many details really stand out now. Quite the transformation.
Vintage Kitchen Door: Re-installing Trim
Tonight, we walked through the instructions together, and fine-tuned the depth of the nailer. After a few practice nails on some scrap lumber, she was ready to go all-in.
Vintage Kitchen Door, First Paint
Quite the transformation from when we first saw it.
Vintage Kitchen Door Restoration: the Other Side
Also – you can’t hear it, but I assure you there are sea shanties playing in the background.
Hardware Cleaning, Door Work Continued
Liz spent a lot of time today, cleaning up hardware pieces. Using a newer approach, I think, of soaking things in vinegar and then using an SOS pad.
Vintage Kitchen Door Restoration: Stripping Paint
Liz has been at work, stripping paint off the vintage kitchen door we got, earlier this year. I stopped down in the basement to check out some of her progress.
Vintage Kitchen Door Restoration Begins
Having finished up her hall window work, Liz has started tackling the restoration work on the vintage door we picked up, earlier this year.
A Trip to Abt Electronics, Discovering Patel Brothers
The first hour or so was fine. But it’s been a while since I’ve been around people. As the crowds started to grow, I began to get more and more uncomfortable – particularly around the refrigerator and stove areas on the first floor.
In my head, I called it “the infection zone.”
Ladder and Ice Removal
I hauled up a hammer, and a small shovel, to get rid of the snow. I worked pretty slowly, afraid that my motions would end up tilting me or pulling me off the ladder. I’ve had a not great track history with keeping my balance on ladders, and so doing all this two stories up was… daunting.
Kitchen Plans
A bit of a placeholder. I don’t want to get too ahead of ourselves, but we’re looking to revisit the kitchen more officially again.
Cleaning the Heat Registers
With a lot of WD-40 and some elbow grease, we were able to loosen the two screws holding the damper in place. Thankfully (amazingly), didn’t end up stripping the screws.
Took a few photos, mostly as reference, for when we need to re-assemble these pieces together again.
Winterizing the Kitchen, East Wall
Liz and I are both on vacation, and we’ve been doing this one day on one day off kind of thing. One day focusing on the house, another day relaxing and doing our own stuff.
Winterizing the Kitchen, North Wall
We had a lot of drywall and plywood, which had been stored in the kitchen while we got our first floor installed. Moved all this out so I could actually get to the wall itself.
Transporting the Cornue Stove
I ended up taking the day off of work today, to coordinate transporting the stove we purchased on Saturday back to our house. Given that we weren’t 100% sure we would be the new owners of the stove until after the sale started… a lot of things have happened over the last few days.