Kitchen Work

The process of redoing the kitchen has started. We got the floor done today. We tore it up yesterday and finished putting the vinyl tiles down today. The tiles are pretty easy to work with. You just take the paper off the back and stick them to the floor. We used some called "EuroStone". It's suppose to look like slate. Although they in no way look like actual tiles, I think they look a lot better than what was down before, which wasn't held down by much more than gravity and the appliances and was sort of uneven and coming up in a few places. Of course, because of that it was very easy to remove, which was convenient. The top layer was on top of another layer of laminate and under that was tile (ugly tile). There was also evidence of another layer of laminate (very ugly) that had been torn up previously.

The main part of the floor was really easy and went fast. The problem was when we had to start cutting the tiles. The problem is that none of the walls in our house seem to be straight. We also had some issues with the various parts of the floor not being level. That's what you get with an old house, though. We seem to have it worked out though. Steve did most of the hard measuring stuff because when I tried to help it turned out I wasn't very good and it would have taken even longer if I had been more involved.

Step 2 in the kitchen is now to take care of the island and figure out the timeline on replacing the existing cabinets and counter tops.