The beginning

I'm starting this blog about our Kitchen Remodeling project.  It will be an adventure for us and since I've never 'blogged' before, we'll see how this goes.

We bought this house in 1990 knowing the kitchen needed to be remodeled.  The house was built in mid 1960 and it still has the original kitchen.  This was built for the woman to be the only cook.  The refrigerator is opposite the oven which causes quite a congestion with my husband and I.  We also have a wonderfully large breakfast room on the other side of the bar in the kitchen which has a tremendously large wasted space since our house also has a dining room. 

Those who know us know that my husband, Herbie (alias Jerry), is the cook and I'm the sous chef.  This kitchen does not work for us at all.

Our dream of 20+ years has been to gut the entire room and create a big kitchen with all that wonderful space.  One drawback is a partial wall between the two areas.  Previous attempts to discuss the wall removal resulted in having to put columns in the new room for support.  Thanks to friend and head of Murray Construction, David Murray, we now have supports in the attic to alleviate problem with the wall removal.

We seriously looked at the remodeling project in 2002.  We had a professional design done and got estimates that scared us off.  We didn't have $60,000 laying around and were not willing to take out that kind of loan.  Then in February of 2003, I got laid off and chose retirement.  That halted our remodeling.

 Over the past couple of years, Herbie has been designing our new kitchen.  We finally got a layout we were both happy with and started looking at the project seriously.  Our journey finally begins for real in January 2011!