Well, the long promised photos of the kitchen project have finally been posted. 

 

I posted two separate photo galleries, the before and after if you just want to see what changed and the kitchen construction timeline, which shows the sequence of work as it is being done.  I've added captions explaining a little about the pictures.  If you want more, you have to buy me drinks.

 

Anyway, highlights are that we started planning the kitchen remodel in June 06, hired an architect (big mistake) in Aug 06, hired a contractor (Stonewood Builders) in Dec 06, basically fired the architect in Feb 07 due to their immense over-extravagance and expense. From there we worked on the plans ourselves and with a few local professionals who were very helpful.   We highly recommend Russ Morgan at Morgan's Electric in Ballard who helped us with the cabinets. We got our permits, finalied the plan and signed the contract in May 07.  The contract had scheduled the process to be done by end of July.  Ha ha, we assumed maybe Labor Day to be realistic.  We moved in the upstairs 2 weeks after Labor Day, so that was pretty close.  Of course, we were not 100% done by then, as a few details were still hanging out there.  We have finally just on November 8th finished the major remaining items:  counters were reinstalled, power service was moved to the front of the house. 

 

There's still a handful of little things to do, but we're on to other projects now.  We've definitely found that the more detail you get into, the more you want to do. It's a downward spiral, and you really have to fight to keep the projects from expanding forever.