I’m still working on the post about last weekend (we got a lot done!) but I haven’t taken pictures yet so I will hold off on that.  Hopefully tomorrow i’ll take pictures since this weekend we’ll be making more progress!

In the mean time we’ve been getting things ready for this weekend, doing plans, finalizing decisions because this weekend we will be making at least 2 of our huge purchases.  Appliances (the 10% off sale ends monday) and Cabinets (10% off sale ends Wed).

So the kitchen layout has changed a bit, we fit in more cabinets and we’ll find out this Sunday how much these changes will cost us!  Then I also planned out the electrical because this weekend we hope to get the lights installed (recessed and boxes for pendant lights etc).  I can also get the electrical outlets for the fridge and microwave installed since that wall is demo’d.  Actually the fridge outlet will be what is currently the microwave outlet, just shifted a bit.

For fun I also grabbed some 3D shots from the program i’m using for these layouts.  Keep in mind the cabinets are generic and appliances are not accurate looks wise, just size wise.

Kitchen Cabinet layout with details for ordering the cabinets.

The electrical layouts (for lights/switches) in the kitchen.

The kitchen as viewed from the back of the house ‘entrance’ hallway

The kitchen as viewed from the diningroom

The kitchen and diningroom as viewed from the livingroom – a very open layout.

We actually haven’t finalized on our cabinet look yet.  We are going with Home Depot/Martha Stuart cabinets but are going back and forth between ‘painted’ cabinets (they use a shrink wrap, not a paint which is making us very wary) and stained cabinets.  If we go with stained we’ll do a tile floor, if painted we’ll probably refinish the wood but there’s some major patching between kitching/diningroom that will have to be done that won’t be fun.  Decision will be made on Sunday!