New Sink

In our last post we shared how we gutted out our old sink as we were replacing our old counter-tops with gorgeous granite. I neglected to show the after pictures of the sink that we had installed. Trust me- it's just as amazing as the counters.

Here are the before pictures of our old sink: stained and yucky.This faucet wasn't bad- just not very glamorous. Plus, it only twisted into the sink on the right... it wouldn't turn the other direction unless you pulled it out and used the hose.

Here you can better see the stained sink basin. It's supposed to be ivory white but it's really more yellow with some old ring marks that would not be scrubbed away.

Upon closer inspection you can see how clearly neglected this sink was. Where did anyone wash anything? It doesn't seem like soap ever hit this drain! So yuck! This is also stained a nice putrid rust color.

This is the part that made me truly happy to toss this sink out. This is the bottom of the soap dispenser (which didn't have the dispenser attached to it anyway). Nicely rusted and corroded.


And here are the after pictures of our beautiful new under-mount stainless steel sink complete with no rusty soap dispenser, clean drains and stain free basin :)

Here's my favorite part. Our garbage disposal button :) The elderly gentleman got scared when I shouted with excitement as he showed us this option. So 21st century, yay!

And here's the whole shibang. We love our beautiful faucet and flawless sinks!

Now the only problem that we have is that the sink is so pretty that we don't want to put any dirty dishes in it!

First Major Project- COMPLETE!

Last Monday our counter-tops were finally installed and they are far more beautiful than we could have imagined! It is so amazing how changing one room can give your whole house a face-lift! When you see our kitchen now you have to second guess yourself, "Am I in a new house?" Fantastic!!!

Before the counters could be installed we had to completely remove the old plywood that was serving as our temporary counters. We also had to rip out the old sink (good riddance) and turn off all the plumbing. Here's what that process looked like:

Here's Thomas disconnecting the plumbing:

And here he is tearing out the old sink! So heavy!

Taking it out to the pile of the remains of our old kitchen:

Where the sink used to be:

Starting to remove the wood counters:You can see that we had started to graffiti on the wood :)

All ready for new granite counters:

Oh yeah. I forgot to mention that we weren't only putting granite in the kitchen! We also have a hallway cabinet that could use a little love. We thought that it would tie the kitchen and hallway together nicely if we used the same granite there too and give the main section of the house a nice flowy feeling. So we had to pry off the old wood that was on top of those cabinets as well- but instead of having no top at all (like in the kitchen) there was still the top of the cabinets underneath. So we decided to do something fun and create a type of time-capsule for any future residents that might undo our current upgrade.

This is what we did:That's kinda fun, right? Well, we thought so.... and this is what the hallway cabinets looked like after we installed the granite:

Ooh, you've got chills right? It looks THAT good!!! Okay, maybe you might not- but we definitely do. And now for the grand finale... the kitchen :)

They even matched the glue that they use to seal any gaps.

And here it is- TADA!!!!!

Goodbye crummy tile- Hellooooooo granite :) Imagine us doing our happy dance here- because we totally are :)