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On the Eve of Construction

Our house was built in the early 1960’s and was remodeled in the 1970’s with the worst decorations in the world. We’ve spent months stripping away layer after layer of hideous wall paper throughout the house. Our kitchen cabinets couldn’t ever have been considered attractive, even in the 70’s. Most of our friends and family haven’t seen the house yet because it’s just been too ugly inside to entertain in.

But that’s all about to change.

We hired DOUG, our contractor and next door neighbor, and his business partner Billy to gut our existing kitchen and dining room and replace all the old crap with really good stuff.

In addition to being a web genius, the Queen of my Universe is also an amazing cook, but has been hobbled in her passion by functional, but mostly crappy appliances. As chief bottle washer, I’ve been washing the dishing by hand and creating elegant architectural wonders in the dish drainer. Soon we’ll have a state-of-the-art Miele wall oven and Caldera cooktop for QoMU, and a Bosch dishwasher for me.

Since we’re opening up the wall into our living room, we figured we might as well soup that up a little too. We’re taking out the tacky gas insert in the fireplace and replacing it with a real, romantic wood fireplace with a 150 year old mantle that DOUG found for us. We’re replacing the low-pile shag carpet that been pissed on by pets and had countless drinks spilled on it with beautiful hard woods. The built-in shelves that rival the kitchen cabinets in ugliness and the wall behind them are coming out.

Our new stuff has been trickling in over the past few weeks, teasing us by sitting boxed out the garage. We’ve been getting more exciting with each new arrival. DOUG dropped all the tools off on Friday, and will be starting demolition this week. For now we’re enjoying the ugly calm before the beautiful storm.

To see just how ugly everything is, click here to go to the photostream.

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