The Great Kitchen Remodel of 2011: Tiling and floor part two

After the cabinets were installed, Darren did some work on getting more tile laid. He made fantastic progress! This first picture is his progress in the morning.

This next picture is his afternoon progress.
Didn't he do awesome?!? I was way impressed.

Now, this next picture is our newest challenge. We have to get a section that isn't level, at least flat. How are we doing that? By chiseling away pieces. And it takes a bit of time. This was the small amount of progress Darren and I have made.
On this is at least flat, we can tile over it and then work on grout and then seal the tile. We're making it slowly but surely!

The Great Kitchen Remodel of 2011: CABINETS!

Alright, are you ready for this? We have cabinets! Wahoo! We documented the progress of the cabinets going up with LOTS of pictures (please forgive our excitement). I'll refrain from doing too many comments in the middle.

The next couple of pictures are about midway through the process. They even include a picture of one of the two installers.

And now, for the finished cabinets...Tada! (no counter tops yet and the walls need to be painted. :))

Hooray for cabinets!

I've forbidden Darren and Loren from using them until the floor is finished because I'm worried that once the kitchen is functional they'll lose the desire to finish. I admit I'm excited to find out how everything fits in the new kitchen. I'll say it one more time, hooray!!!

The Great Kitchen Remodel of 2011: Tiling part one

Tiling has begun! The focus was put on getting the tile laid where the cabinets would be going so we won't have to push back the date for the cabinets installation (again, May 12, cross your fingers!) Darren was nice enough to take these pictures.

It's looking pretty good right? I'm super excited for all of this to be completed. The boys have been working really hard while I... Um... Well... I occasionally sort tile?

Great Kitchen Remodel of 2011: Subfloor and leveling

It's time for another update! Over the last two weeks, Darren had to replace a giant piece of subfloor. I didn't get a picture of the giant gaping hole, but I did get pics after it was fixed.

Notice how a giant portion of the floor looks new? It's because it is! This is where the sink used to be so it was all rotted underneath.
That's Darren sweeping up getting things ready for backerboard.
This section is bad news. The floor wasn't level.. It sinks towards the back left corner of this picture. So they laid down pieces of plywood left over from subfloor repair to try to get it closer to level then poured self leveling compound down to fill in the gaps.
This was after the first batch of self leveling compound.
This was after the second batch. You can't tell, but some of the plywood is sticking up on the other side. That's going to be sanded down before backboard can be put down on top of it.
This is the backerboard pre-tile.

And this is Loren and Darren just overjoyed at working. Next: Tiling!!!