Well, most of the painting is done... Darryl thanks again for the tip on the impervo... that stuff dries hard, smooth, and flattened out like a dream. Over the weekend we primed, painted, put in undercabinet lights, added crown molding, fixed broken doors and reglued 2 cabinets. Tonight we moved out the fridge, stove, and dishwasher, added the pulls (loosely so as to not mark the paint while it continues to cure.. but we wanted the knobs so we arn't handling the doors to open them) and lifted all the tile and threw it into the back of my truck--it is being replaced by 18 inch porcelain tile (tawny brown/grey colored)
I'm not sure why, but the tile that was laid down was done so on top of what appears to be roofing paper... it was almost floating (no wonder things sounded hollow when you dropped a spoon on the floor) As a result, with a small 3x3 exception, all the tile came up like a breeze... 160 sq feet in about an hour. Tomorrow while I'm at work LOML is painting the wall behind where the stove was and a couple of other small bits here and there. When I get home we plan on beginning with the tiling. Today I swung by my local WW'ers source and picked up 34 linear feet of 5.5 inch wide 1/2 cherry and a 5x5 piece of 1/4 baltic birch for the drawers (and hopefully some leftover which LOML will never know about
) I'll be dovetailing them on the incra after we return from our holiday in San Diego next week (we plan on going after laying the tile/grouting to let things cure) I got some Blum bottom mount drawer slides (solo- the cheaper, non-bearing slides) and also have some of the blumotion for doors (found them on sale for $2.59 each) to put on the cabinet doors on the way.
Before
After
More pics to come as and when... after the tiling and the trip comes the drawers which are the only real ww'ing other than the crown and trim.
Thanks again for the advice and encouragement,
Lawrence