Something to be proud of, beautiful piece of work.

 

Aww thanks...

 

Where’s the picture of the sink 😂? Why 2 dishwashers?

 

We have two dishwashers because we are lazy! With two dishwashers you don’t have to put dishes away. You pull the clean dishes out of one, use them, then put them back in the other dirty one. When that gets full you run it and the clan versus dirty dishwashers swap. Since we are empty nesters and tend to use the same items for every meal, we almost never have to put dishes away. A second dishwasher does not take up space since it acts as “storage”.

 

I see the sink in the back ground...the whole kitchen looks great....would like a close up of the sink ...and a repeat of the question ....2 dishwashers?

 

That is VERY nice! You do good work! I’d like to see a closer pic of the sink as well.

 

Those cabinets look like they came out of our old farmhouse kitchen! Very nice work!

 

H S
"Where there's a will there's a way"!
Anytime you can do it the way that you want it, and like it , is great!
10 people, and 10 different opinions. It doesn't matter, what some others, might like or not like! Nice work!
Nice savings, also.

ETU

 

Here is the sink…

 

We did the lights ourselves too. We buy lanterns at Hobby Lobby then buy light parts at Hone Depot and form custom lights. Here is a better light of the one above our sink.

The cost is about $100 so it’s cheaper than buying a comparable light…

 

Here is a picture with and without the lights behind the upper stained glass cabinets. I like stained glass but it cannot really be appreciated without being backlit. I busted used LED lights on a remote to light them up. This house has a lot of stained glass so we incorporated them into our kitchen in a small way. The cost for the stained glass was $270 which WAS included in the $6400 cost. We bought the glass but cut it ourselves.

 

with seven layers of fiberglass and carefully applying various paints I got a fiber glassed sink that did not leak. A visitor the other day said he thought it was actually a granite sink.

As for the rest of the kitchen, it was not too bad.

Very nice! What did you use as the finish for the hardwood (?) countertops? Is that fiberglass, too?

 

Polyurethane

 

Beautiful work!

 

That is some wonderful work, what a beautiful kitchen!

 

Nothing really changes in kitchen design if one waits long enough.

 

As funny as that is to me, I just can't agree with that. Different strokes naturally. Not looking for an argument at all, as we all get older we learn to accept more and more.
The Kitchen is the most expensive part of a remodel, you can do on a house. There's so many options on design's and styles. $$$ Pocket book's and budget, as in everything else out there, usually dictate, what's wanted, and or needed. Wants and needs! I'm always happy for people when they can get things the way they want them, vs. not!
Happy 4 th, America! 🇺🇲

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I got a little more to do. Some small places to clean up and paint, then add outlets to the island.

I have kind of moved on now though. I am working on my master bedroom suite. It was where the kitchen was. At 50 years old we are trying to get life onto the first floor, so using the old kitchen as a bedroom, the pantry as a walk-in closet and laundry, then make the old laundry room into a bathroom, we can live primarily on the first floor.

I worked on it all weekend but did not get far. It is an old house so I was prepping the ceiling for new ceiling lumber. It took far longer to shim the ceiling flat with strapping then what I thought. Grrrrrr that tested my patience as it was like trying to put a flat ceiling on the bottom of a bowl.

 

I understand the ceiling frustration. I am not a big fan of suspended ceilings. But there are times it's the only affordable way out.
What we do in our own homes, will that's something else.

 

Oh no, not a suspended ceiling at all. This will be shiplapped ceiling, I just had to shim the ceiling pretty bad in spots because it’s an old house and the floor above sags a lot. The time consuming part is leveling the shims to the lowest part of the existing ceiling and then figuring out the plane from there. I used a string level to identify the points on that plane.

 

Taking the old plaster out and pulling the lath and nails.
That old plaster to many forms. I have even removed stucco and wire.
With all that weight hanging from the ceiling it's no wonder they sag.

 

What you said with horsehair plaster weight, and they underbuilt the structure most times. Like they used 2x7's to span 16 feet whereas today we would use 2x10's or 2x12's.

Overall sagging floors and ceilings are just a part of living in an old house and might actually be weird if everything was level. Most times I can use my laser level and get counters, baseboard and other stuff level, but the ceiling was harder to do. No real way to get the laser mounted up that high so I went old school and used a sting level to establish a level plane.

Yesterday I got the shiplap up on the ceiling and was done by noon which was not bad time wise. It came out even flatter than I thought it would.

Today it is on to the flooring.