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Kitchen Chaos

Life has been crazy in the BoisBungalow! We have been working our butts off on the kitchen floor since last weekend. Thomas decided to start pulling the laminate up when I was at a training on Saturday and we have been regretting it since... There were two layers of laminate that we were able to cut, but the third layer was glued on the wood floors. We have been cursing the previous owners who did this to the beautiful fir floors. We have been scraping every day and evening since and are now down to just the laminate backing and adhesive. We have rented a wallpaper steamer and have found it to be more efficient than scraping the paper while it is dry. It is a very tedious job, but we keep telling ourselves that it WILL be worth it in the end!

When we were stripping the linoleum, we got to the end of the kitchen (that used to be a covered porch) and found plywood. We were disappointed, but we went to our local lumber supply store and ordered $320 worth of clear fir to use in that section. Later, we pulled up the plywood and found fir flooring! It has been painted grey, but we decided to strip it down and save ourselves $300. It's nice when you find things that save you money instead of the opposite.

In the kitchen, we have also stripped some woodwork, painted the walls, ceiling and bought a new dishwasher! It will arrive this Sunday, so I am excited to get things going so we can finish these floors and install my new dishwasher. We are also contemplating a garbage disposal, hopefully in the near future. It's amazing how a flooring project can turn into a whole kitchen project!

I will have to post pictures soon, but here is a link to the color we chose for the kitchen. I'm not in love with it, but the hubby is... so it's staying!

Sherwin Williams- Dutch Tile Blue

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  1. A. and S.December 20, 2013 at 9:32 PM

    Very exciting! I look forward to pictures.

    Careful with the laminate--when my husband moved in to our house, he was told that some of the layers of the laminate on our kitchen floor (of which there are four or five) might contain asbestos. We'd love to do a project like yours someday.

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  2. The Bois BungalowDecember 23, 2013 at 7:42 PM

    Yes, asbestos was in the back of our minds... We probably should have been more careful, but we were so ready to get it done that we were not as cautious as we should have. I am very happy to be done!

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