We are now officially one week and one day into the construction of our new laundry room and our kitchen remodel. As of yesterday, we have a new concrete pad poured where the new back door will go (on the left). The second and third pictures show the new floor of the laundry room, which is now level with the floor of the house. It has to dry out and cure for about 48 hours (it's VERY humid in Florida, and especially during this heat wave). I've left the garage open during the day to aid the drying process. Yesterday we also finalized the cabinet plans with our cabinet maker, and we believe he is going to do a wonderful job. It's more money than we had originally been told by our contractor, but of course we wanted some extras--sliding trays in all the lower cabinets and in the new pantry. We'll have the refrigerator next to the new pantry, so he's going to give it a built-in look with cabinets above and a wooden panel down the exposed side. We'll have to go get a new hood for over the range, though. While looking at the specs on the one the Sears guy talked us into, we all realized that it is ducted and cannot be modified to be ductless. Our hood vents internally, not externally, so back to Sears we go. Again. (We had changed from a microwave hood to a regular one, now this.) All of the people I've talked to so far agree that having a microwave over a very expensive smooth cooktop is probably a bad idea, so we're going with a nice microwave cart in the corner of the dining room after all. And that's the latest, I assume that on Thursday, things will get cracking again.
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