New Counters Parts 1-4

Harry, his dad, and I began our new counter project on Thursday. Harry took Thursday and Friday off work to get started and his dad was gracious enough to come and help. Here is our progress...


For those of you who don't remember, here is what our kitchen looked like before.


Here is what our kitchen looked like when I came home from school on Thursday. The old counters had been removed, and the new plywood counters had started being cut.


Here is the island from the top. Phoebe didn't like this stage. She tried to jump on the counter top and ended up falling straight through and getting trapped in the cabinet.


On Friday, the new plywood counters were all cut and ready to be attached.


Harry drilled the pilot holes for the plywood...


While I screwed them down.

We were up till 2:30am on Friday attaching the plywood counters and getting the concrete board attached. On Saturday we woke up early to go and get the rented tile saw.


Here you see Harry using the tile saw to cut our granite tiles for around the sink.


After he got all the tiles cut, I smoothed the thin set onto the counter tops.


Here is our kitchen today. We couldn't do much work because the thin set had to dry. You can see that all the counter tile and the counter fronts have been attached.


Here is a close-up of the island counter top.




Here you see our counters set up with the back splash.

Tomorrow we will grout the counters and front facing. Tuesday we will attach the back splash, and Wednesday we will grout the back splash. By Thursday we hope to be done! Check back soon for more pictures of our progress.