If you’re new here & you’re curious about our renovation, start here.

{uncovering 130 year old wallpaper while undergoing our kitchen renovation}

We’ve officially been out of our house and conducting our kitchen renovation for four weeks now. In this time, the amount of progress that our GC has made is quite impressive. Our contractor (who we used for my mom’s kitchen – which you can read all about here, if you’d like), said it would take 5-6 weeks to complete. I was admittedly skeptical, but it’s looking like we’re more or less right on track. Construction and kitchen renovations almost never happen this way, as I’m sure you know, so I’m thrilled.

{discovering layers of vintage vinyl flooring that I secretly love}
Hardwood flooring is going in as we speak, our floors have been levelled, and the plumbing, HVAC, and electrical is complete. Though everything is on the right track, it isn’t to say that our kitchen renovation didn’t come with its fair share of surprises along the way.

You may remember me mentioning that our kitchen used to slope significantly. So much so that I used to have to strategically place my eggs or they would roll of the counter, hah. So we knew something was going on with the one back corner of our home. When we opened up the space to investigate, however, we discovered that a large section of the back wall of our home had literally been washed away ov...