Archive for the ‘kitchen’ Category

A new old stove

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Our vintage O’Keeffe and Merritt is installed and almost ready for a pot roast, pork chops, or bundt cake. While I would have loved to go industrial and stainless, the price for a new stove was prohibitive. We have a 40″ stove gap and a tight budget, so even the cheap dent and ding 30″ Sears stoves were out of our price range.

I bought this classic beauty off of craigslist, aahhhh my first love – craigslist.

Theres a bit of an issue with the broiler and oven – they won’t get hot! The griddle and stove top burners work like champs, so I’m forking out $40 to have the pros come and assess the issue.

Oh well, you get what you pay for with vintage. But JESUS that thing looks amazing, which is all that matters…

The interiors of the Youngstown steel cabinets got a new coat of baby pink Rustoleum. We all agreed – they now look like vagina’s.

This is the plug of DOOM. What the hell is going on? There are 3 circuits and a cluster fuck of cables.

This is the plug for our fridge, and isn’t grounded. I tried to screw it back in the wall after we inspected the mess and almost killed myself. An exposed wire hit metal and the thing sparked and went BOOOOOM and threw the breaker. I almost wet my pants, and thought I was going to die. Electrical work is now left to the pros.

FILED UNDER: electrical, kitchen

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Demo

Monday, March 31st, 2008

We’ve demolished a lot of stuff. Sticky, Nasty, Gross stuff.

(water damage under the fridge) (bees and sunflower contact paper, as well as some surprising patterns underneath)

The floors in the kitchen and both bathrooms have been removed, as well as the layers and layers and layers of contact paper in the cabinets. There were about 4 layers of vinyl tiles and laminate that took 3 days to rip up and still we could not get the original layer of 1950’s speckled linoleum up.

(the original linoleum – it had begun to disintegrate and turn to crumbly powder)

There is a lot of debris from everything we destroyed as well as 2 contractor bags full of sawdust from refinishing the floors.

(construction debris – we do not keep a clean job site -shame, shame, shame)

(the Youngstown steel kitchen cabinets, rusted and dented)

The cabinets are in decent shape, they are a little rusty and dented – some paint and Bondo will fix that!

FILED UNDER: demolition, floors, kitchen

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s*it list : kitchen faucets

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

This little retro 1950’s masonry gem will be our first house (well, that is if escrow closes). I know almost nothing when it comes to rehad or reno and there’s just no budget. Good thing the place was cheap.

The inspector found some little issues here and there that need addressing – but instead of focusing on aesthetically challenged things like the water heater and sprinkler system, I’ve rounded up th s*it list of kitchen faucets with a few sinks thrown in. We’ve got a leaky and broken faucet in the kitchen and the sink has seen much better days. This is the first time I’ve priced these things out, so bad news – they can be really really expensive. So here is my cheapo list of retro modernish fixtures for the kitchen.

IKEA (the go-to for cheap modern design)

ALSVIK Dual control kitchen faucet
$99.99

BÅGVIK Single lever kitchen faucet
$139.00

DOMSJÖ Sink bowl white
$184.99

Overstock – (shipping – only 2.95!)