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before. what a messy kitchen!

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before. bookshelves in the dining room.

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before. couch where the island will go.

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everything's gone!

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pile of appliances and fixtures: faucet, sink, range hood, cooktop, and backsplash tile.

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all our stuff covered in plastic. our kitchen currently consists of the toaster and electric kettle!

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appliances piled in the dining room. oven, dishwasher, old fridge (with our food in it), and our new fridge (aka "the lofty").

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6/2 - after being cooped up in the bedroom all day, Molly was happy to explore and see what was happening to the rest of the house!

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6/2 - hey look! we have a few cabinets up in the dining room!

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6-2 - cabinet detail. The drawers are shallow but we'll find good uses for them!

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6/3 - cabinets by the front door! The window frame has been removed and covered over.

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6/3 - Molly's fantasy: cubist boxland.

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6/4 - kitchen cabinets! The fridge will go in the tall space to the right.

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6/4 another view

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6/4 - Inspector Molly made sure all the corners were plumb and the surfaces were level. Satisfied, she took a nap.

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6/4 - Upper cabinets

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6/5 - now we have doors!

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6/5 - one of the custom shelves.

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6/5 - The Island is complete!

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6/5 - we're getting there!

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6/8 - it's starting to look like a kitchen!

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6/8 - dining room cabinets are all up!

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6/8 - g can't wait to fill these shelves with books!

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6/8 - from L to R: sink cabinet, trash pullout, oven cabinet, custom shelf for cookie sheets and baking pans.

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6/8 - the installers have done a great job fitting the trim into the existing baseboards.

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6/8 - another baseboard detail

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6/10 - we've got knobs, a vent hood, and a cabinet over the fridge!

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6/10 - more than anything else, Bill is excited about this quiet, powerful, and visually unobtrusive vent hood. (really, he's a bit TOO excited.)

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6/10 - hood fully extended and on.

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6/10 - the hood's secret is this enormously bulky thing that takes up a lot of room in this cabinet. But really, who doesn't have a few skeletons in their closet??

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6/10 - Island handles

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6/10 - the dining room's all ready for countertops!

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6/10 - entry area all done except for finishing up the wall repair.

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6/17 - not much has happened, but we wheeled the fridge into the kitchen.

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6/17 - profile of kitchen with counter-depth fridge. the white scuffs on the wall near the lightswitch are how far out the old fridge was!

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7/28 - hey look! we have counters! and a cooktop! it's not plugged in yet... but it's here!

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7/28 - Once we wipe the counters and put some finish on them they'll have a nice sheen.

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7/28 - This counter hasn't been wiped down yet so it looks kind of grayish still, but soon it'll be shiny and black.

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7/28 - more counters

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7/28 - New counters and recessed lighting.

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7/29 - Better view of countertops once they've been wiped down and cleaned up.

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7/29 - another view.

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8/4 - well, now we've got a tile backsplash (still needs to be grouted)! but this is probably the last you'll see of this cooktop since it won't fit with the oven. :(

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8/11 - hey look! a dishwasher and working faucet!

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8/11 - dishwasher control panel

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8/11 - almost done!

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9/25 - hey look, a new cooktop! (if only it was installed...)

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9/29 - we are go!

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9/29 - chef g!

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9/29 - and we even have an oven!

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10/30 - oven is correctly reinstalled (pushed back in to make it flush). We're ecstatic with our new kitchen!