Yup, but it will look much worse before looking better :)

Keep the liquor where you can find it
you'll need it
looks like you have a good supply......
You may want to HIDE IT from your contractor though :)

Just stay focused on the end result. And it's good you're taking photos - you'll need them later to remind you of how you got there. :-)

Oh, yeah, and the liquor. Lots of liquor. :-)

Oh heck ya,...I'm on week 128 and it's much better now than earlier....

Welcome to living without your kitchen...I am pretty sick of it, but almost
there.
If you are breaking into your walls, I would do some covering up for lots
of dust...it gets everywhere!
Good luck and keep the pics coming.
vic

I ate my way through my Mom's (and I don't even live there) so liquor is definitely the way to go. It will end sooner or later and for me I would have preferred to be a little hung over at the end rather than unable to fit into most of my clothes. Weigh-in is tomorrow wish me luck.

On which house are you on Week 128 IChic??? LOL Just to let the OP know, it WILL get worse, and eventually it will get better (I hope!) We started a bathroom demo November 28th, and 2 contractors later, I might have the slate finished in the shower tomorrow! We're at week 8 of a two week rebuild!! We had no hot water or floors for 12 days at -25 Celcius.. yes that contractor would have had his @ss fired.. if he'd ever returned to pick up his tools!

Hmm.. I see black jackets on the backs of chairs.. you might consider "chef whites" until the muck and mess are done.. black...not so much! You might consider picking up that carpet you have in the dining room area though! Ask me how one man in one small house can manage to get drywall compound through out 5 rooms of a house, especially when he's only mudding one room!

My newest contractor nearly got a coffee pot up his nose last night when he announced that the water would have to be shut down YET again. He also said... "Rome wasn't built in a day you know".. now for that comment he should be walking funny.. but I don't have the strength to fight him or this project anymore.

Try and enjoy the drinks.. ooops.. construction, take lots of pics, and remember.. apparently we're going to laugh at all this one day.. in the far far ... far future LOL.

And as a side note.. yes I know slate isn't the best choice for a shower.. but I lurrrrrrrrrves it.. and it's going to outlast me AND this house!

We're 3+ years into a DIY never to be done house renovation - I stopped caring 1 year into it as my husband comes up with 101 excuses - he has all the tools and supplies... it now bugs him more than me. :) You get used to it if you live with it long enoug. You know, plastic doorways aren't so bad!

jen
Congrats on remodel - I assume you are updating and keeping orig cabs? What came to my mind was the multiple layers of flooring coming up - Just make sure the floor is level, level, level before the tile is installed or it will crack
good luck

Level floors! My contractor had commented on how unlevel my kitchen floor was - crazy slope from one side to the other. He insisted on putting a mud job into my contract. I was actually very nervous that I would end up with one of these big step-up's into the kitchen - hate those! You see them a lot in old buildings in NYC where the apartments have been renovated.

Well, by the time demo was over and they had lifted FIVE layers of vinyl tile up off the floor, it turned out my floors were pretty good. Still got the mud job, but it was a very thin layer of mud. Not even sure it was necessary...

But I know my tiles won't crack. (Well, they better not!)

We are in week 3 -- now waiting for the cabinets to be delivered--waiting and still waiting. The contractor and kd seem to be speaking different languages to each other about the delivery date. At this point I don 't care anymore. When they get here, they will get here. The demo part was the worst. Now everything is moved, re-arranged, re-sheetrocked, re-painted. It looks nice and clean... I even sealed the floor grout and made new window treatments while waiting. My dining room, like yours, is stuffed to the gills with kitchen equipment but luckily the fridge can stay in the kitchen. Family is sick of it, though.

Trying to make lemons from lemonade, I looked around the empty kitchen. It's amazing how much room there is when there's nothing in it!

Good luck to everyone in the middle of the project.