Design on a dime + quarter + a few dollars....

Ok I am sorry that this post will not include photos. I will be a descriptive a possible.

It started like this...

Back in February 07... Wall oven breaks while I am in Turks and Caicos.... I return call repairman and while he is there he looks and cook top and determined that it was broken too. Home warranty said that they would replace them. I get a great idea that instead of replacing them separately I will just order a freestanding range. (I always hated the 2 separated appliances.) So I ask John if we could do that which would cause us to have to replace the countertop and remove the cabinet under the cook top to make room for the new range. He said ok...

March 07...Had not picked out new range
April 07... Tried to order new range and was told I have to wait until May because the company is changing all their parts numbers and they cannot find anything????? WHATEVER
May 3. 2007... Order range and it is scheduled for delivery on the next Friday.

We now have to get rid of the old oven and cook top so I call the propane company and ask them to come out and disconnect them so we don't blow up! They come that Friday. Everything is progressing nicely.
Saturday we remove old ovens and we go to Home Depot for supplies. While there we see a stainless steel fridge on clearance. We needed a new fridge for quite some time so we decide to get it. John will pick it up Saturday morning.

Saturday.... John picks up fridge. Fridge will not fit through door so he spends the morning taking off the doors and putting them back on. Later that day..

John starts to remove the cabinet. First thing to do was cut the countertop and remove a section to get access to the cabinet. While doing so John cracks a wall tile and we realize that the new countertop won't fin into the area cut out from the tile so......

We make the decision to rip out the tile back splash...(and the ride begins...)
We rip out the base cabinet under the cook top and notice that there is no floor under the cabinet just the wood planks that are the basement ceiling! (All the sawdust and tile dust fell through the cracks in the floor to the basement) (Now I need to clean the basement.).


Well without any floor under the cabinet we now have to replace the whole kitchen floor... We cannot just leave it soooo...

The exhaust fan that is built into the wall never worked anyway we decide to remove which leaves a hole in the wall. No big deal right? We this hole went right through to the outside! I told John we should leave it and use it as a condiment pass through for barbeques! He didn't agree so he duck taped it for now and back into the kitchen he came.

Ok now back to removing the tile and the wall it is glued to (NOT REALLY supposed to do that) Huge chunks of plaster are coming off with the tile! and....

Guess what that leads to.... Having to drywall the walls.....
(Husband at this point may be slightly annoyed with wife)

Now while John runs to home depot to get dry wall I clean out old fridge and decide to be kind to the environment and put what I can into the garbage disposal. The disposal did not like that idea and decided to clog itself in protest....
No problem I will just take off the elbow pipe and unclog in right?? NO of course not...
While removing the pipe I notice a huge crack in the drainpipe and it has to be replaced....and while under there I notice that the cabinet is warped from water damage and the gives me an idea!?!?!?
I call John on his cell and present the idea to him...let just replace the base cabinets. We should since while the counter is off and most of the drawers were broke anyway. John agrees based on me saying it will be easy we just take the old ones out and pop the new ones in...No problem....

Stay tuned for the next update....