Bob & Genny's Cabin | Clipper Mills

Pantry shelves are gone

Removal of Paneling in pantry

Preparing to remove cabinets

Down comes the first uppers

Surprise!

Look what we found

Almost done with cabinets

Out goes the base cabinet

One heavy cabinet!

Nice colors!

Looks better without the pink paneling

Kitchen is now a blank slate

Good location for a microwave outlet

Scraping glue from sheetrock

... is a never ending job

The microwave outlet wiring is in.

more sheetrock repair

holes patched

Plywood floor added to hallway

Taped the corners

kitchen ceiling holes

fixing kitchen light holes

kitchen: Larry

Installing hot water heater disconnect

Installing hot water heater disconnect

New LED can lights in kitchen

Drilling hole for new can light

Another hole drilled

Installing can

Fixing sheetrock at new fridge water line

Fixing sheetrock in pantry

Pantry with patched sheetrock, disconenct, and new water lines

Pantry sheetrock patch and disconnect

Screwing down the sub floor

patched sheetrock for fridge water line

All can lights installed and wired

Last corner taped

Corner piece added

Removing door frame

Framing door opening for new door

Sheetrocking door opening

Mixing texture

Priming walls after texture

Bright white primered walls

Duke supervises

Sandie watches the progress

Color - Iced Latte

Hanging cabinets

Wall cabinets up, starting on the base cabinets

Painting the pantry

It's starting to look like a kitchen

It's starting to look like a kitchen

cabinets with doors

cabinets with doors

New kitchen counters installed!

New kitchen counters

Checking the backsplash tile with the new counters

The counter is LG HI-MACS Bamboo Leaf G122

Installing filler strip

The arch is installed

Bracing for crown moulding

Pantry door opening

New pantry light

Hallway ready for texture

Hallway in primer

Fridge area is looking good

Fidge will fit nice

installing crown moulding

Installing crown moulding

Installing crown moulding

Drilling a hole for the microwave plug

Routing the microwave vent to the pre-existing vent hole

Attaching the microwave bracket

Looks like it will work

The microwave is in

Fits good

Almost looks like a kitchen

See this piece fits perfectly

Prepping the pantry for ditra

A nice layer of thinset everywhere

Yet more thinset

And more thinset

Ready for some ditra

Toss the ditra on the thinset

Then work it into the thinset

Heated floor

Heated floor

Heated floor

Heated floor

Heated floor

Getting the Ditra installed over the heat mat

Laying out the tiles

Laying out the tiles, that's going to have some fun cuts

Bob cuts a tile to size

The tile cutter mostly works on these large tiles

Starting down the hallway.

Slowly filling in the gaps

Lots of small triangles need to be cut

Almost looks like a tile floor

If you didn't know better, you'd think we knew what we were doing

Next steps will be the bathroom and pantry

The kitchen sink works!

Starting the kitchen tiling

So far, so good

Well, that only took two hours!

Still a long way to go

Finessing it into place

Kitchen is tiled

Kitchen is tiled, next up, grout

Genny thinsetting the crazy spots around the door frames

Pantry tile going down

Thinset in the pantry

Thinset in the pantry

The pantry is tiled

Installing outlet for garbage disposal

Installing outlet for garbage disposal

Bob grouting kitchen tile

Kitchen backsplash tile going in

The tricky bits

One wall almost done

One wall done, and clean!

Installing backsplash tiles

The backsplash tiles are up!

Looking good when grouted

Some final cleaning and we're done

New phone, new outlet. So much for a finished wall.

Paint will hide that, right?

Genny's happy with the kitchen.

Kitchen's getting closer to done.

Finally adding knobs

New phone installed (and wallplate)

Pantry door painted and installed

Genny needs to come out of the pantry

It opens!

Yes, we have one working interior door

Fixing the hotwater heater, hot showers are nice

Putting primer over the fresh texture

Is this old paint going to match?

Using up the last bit of paint

Why am I using a brush to paint the wall?

Measure once, cut twice for the casings.

Cutting the casing to length

Nailing the casing in place

Larry works on installing the pantry shelves

Only a couple more shelves to go

Pantry shelves finished

Painted kitchen door

Kitchen toe kick finally installed

Cutting toe kick

Ripping the toe kick to fit, this is why you install the toe kick before tiling.

These nails got nothing but air...

Adding some baseboard in the kitchen

kitchen door and window

Trimming the doors

Yeah, that almost fits

We have baseboard in the hall

Before blinds

installing blinds

installing blinds

Blinds installed and closed

Bottom up

Top down

Installing 'T' moulding

Taking a break after hauling the new fridge up the stairs.

Is it going to fit through the door?

It fits!

If we can just get it over the threshold without crushing Bob

It's in!

New fridge!

Kitchen - Finished

Kitchen - Finished

Finished kitchen

Finished kitchen