The Kitchen Floor

We have known since we bought the house in 2015 that we would need to redo the kitchen floor. It didn't look terrible but it had several squishy spots that made us nervous. We had some other pressing things that  needed to be taken care of first (new roof, chimney removed and a few others.) but finally, after almost three years of living here, we had the floor done. What was supposed to be a 4 day job ended up lasting two weeks. I know that for any kind of home renovation, that really isn't that bad. But two weeks without a kitchen was not fun. It turned out that the floor was squishy because of some major water damage in the kitchen and adjoining bathroom. It was a great thing that we ripped everything out down to the subfloor because of how much moisture there was. We even had to replace parts of the subfloor in the bathroom, which also ended up being a blessing because the workers noticed some major plumbing issues that needed to be fixed as well.

After the first week, when we were all pretty tired of eating microwave dinners and doing dishes in the upstairs bath tub, Ike had the best idea ever. We decided to go to a hotel just for the weekend. We needed a break from the mess in the house and I wanted some real food! So we had a mini vacation not so far from home. It was awesome. I think it gave us enough of a break that we were able to come back and deal with a whole other week of construction and it didn't even bother us (too badly).




Before:

During:

 Tile but no grout:

 All done and back to its normal messy kitchen self:

At the hotel:

Honestly, I told Ike that I wish we had just paid another couple of thousand and had them redo the whole kitchen. All that work to rip stuff out only to put the same old cupboards back in just seems like a waste. But I figure little by little. The kitchen is slowly on  its way to being my dream kitchen.