Remodeling

The contents of the Kitchen are in the Living room, mostly. The doors are off the lower cabinets and the refrigerator and stove are sitting in the middle of the floor near the maximum reach of their cords. I can just barely reach the kitchen sink because the stove is in the way and I can't open the dish washer door for the same reason. The dog is shut in the sun room and bed room and can not go into the rest of the house. This is the area that our other two dogs were never allowed to enter because they were my Mother's apartment then and she wanted NO dog hair in her life.

We are remodeling, something I swore in 1996 when we added my Mother's apartment to the house that we would never do again and live in the house at the same time. SIGH - I WOULD want my kitchen remodeled. Not everything mind you. New floor, Soapstone counter tops, with new sink and faucets, new dishwasher and new tile backs plash. Now the cabinets are perfectly good, with the exception of one which had to be replaced. Of COURSE it does not match in color of wood, a lot lighter, or even style. Thank goodness it does not sit under or near any others. BUT the cabinets are almost 30 years old so they are pretty shabby looking. SO DH decided to refinish them. That involves buying an new type of tool to sand the fronts - so there was sawdust EVERYWHERE. Now they are sitting with the one coat of stain on the fronts waiting for three coats of marine Urethane finish. And the cabinet fronts have to be finished before the counter tops are to be installed on April 3. The doors can wait until AFTER we return from our trip to the southwest.

Why oh why do we seem to put off doing things until there is a schedule to meet and then doing them in a rush?