Greetings from the Construction Zone

My kitchen remodeling begins today, and I thought others might be interested in a blow-by-blow description of what happens when the vital center of the home is being deconstructed. As we go along, I'll post pictures of before and afters and in-betweens. At least, that's the plan.

We have a galley kitchen, about eight feet wide and fifteen feet long. There's currently a big, honking closet in one end that houses the washer and dryer and takes up a lot of valuable kitchen space. We have a four-burner electric slide-in stove and a huge french door refrigerator (which sits at the other end of the kitchen and blocks all views of the dining room. The cabinets are cheap particle board and veneer, which is peeling off, and the dang handles are in the middle of the doors--what moron thought that up?

So, what's going to happen: we have a very long single car garage, so the back of that is going to become about a seven foot wide, twenty foot long laundry room, with room for our current refrigerator and cabinets at one end. The kitchen will be gutted, new cabinets that go all the way to the top (current has useless soffits), new tile flooring to replace the wood-look laminate, tile backsplashes (we currently have none), and all new appliances. Electrolux double wall ovens, counter-depth refrigerator, new dishwasher, five burner induction hybrid cooktop, and a microwave hood. Never used Electrolux before, so this will be an adventure.

Feel free to post comments, suggestions, support, and cool ideas for the backsplash!