Starting the Kitchen

Now to start on the kitchen.  The cabinets’ are not all that bad.  A little banged up and dirty maybe, but not horrible.  Will call it a rustic country kitchen when it’s all clean.  It’s really the walls that have me worried more than anything.  All of the walls have a multicolored plaid wallpaper that has a translucent flower overlay.  It’s really hard to capture in photos, but either way, it has to go.

Started with the cleaning everything first.  There is spaghetti sauce splatters everywhere.  No kidding.  It’s even under the cabinets at the kick plate.  Looks like the former owners had a spaghetti fight in there before they left.

Pulled out the stove and there was a ton of icky gunk underneath it, behind it, and running down all four sides of it.  No sign of mice, thank goodness, because if they found this spot, the little fur balls would be there forever and live fat dumb and happy without anyone ever knowing they where there.

All of the old shelf paper was removed from the cabinets and everything got a good cleaning inside and out with lots of soap, water, and elbow grease.

There is a water filter under the sink that was turned off because apparently one of the valves leaked.  It was a five dollar fix and it’s good as new.  Replaced the water filter and it’s ready to go.

The dishwasher seems to be working ok.  The stove is very old.  Have had bad luck with an old gas stove blowing up in the past, so before doing anything with it, the gas company was called out to look at it.  They ran gas through all the lines and tested the stove.  It seems to be working just fine.  So since it’s working, cleaned that up inside and out as well.

The ceiling fan was just as dirty as the rest.  When it was dirty, it looked really old and nasty to the point it was about to be thrown out.  But all cleaned up, it looks great and is ready to go.

The windows had some badly placed tinting on them so all the glass had to be taken out, the tint film removed, and then cleaned with Goo Gone to remove the sticky stuff.  Then a good cleaning with soap and water to remove the Goo Gone and then a final cleaning with window cleaner and it's good to go.

Now to peel off that nasty wall paper.