One Room Challenge Kitchen – Week No. 3

Here I am in week three of my One Room Challenge colorful kitchen remodel making a great big mess. This is the week that all the things I dread, because of how much mess they make, are getting done. The disty drywall, the splattery ceiling paint, the tile cutting…It’s all getting done.

For those of you who aren’t familiar, The One Room Challenge™ is a biannual interior design blog and Instagram event. In each round, twenty design influencers are selected to take the challenge as Featured Designers, and transform a space and any blogger or Instagrammer can join as ORC Guest participants by linking their room transformation each week. Every Wednesday, the designers document their process while sharing their sources and professional advice over eight weekly posts. 

WEEK 1 / WEEK 2 / WEEK 3  (You are here) / WEEK 4 / WEEK 5 / WEEK 6 / WEEK 7 / WEEK 8 – REVEAL

Be sure to check out other ORC Featured Designers and Guest Participants over at The One Room Challenge!

You are welcome to watch the progress in real-time on my Instagram story highlights ORC Kitchen

I also want to give a big thanks to Lights.com and Amerock for gifting products to help complete this project.

Visual Progress

One one of the cleaner items I accomplished this week for the kitchen remodel was getting the cabinet doors and drawer fronts back on. This was a must finish item before I moved on to drywall to keep the insides of my cabinets clean.

I am loving the way they look all painted up. Now I’m just waiting for my drawer pulls to arrive. Notice my handy dandy painter’s tape drawer pull on the drawer to the left.

Getting DIrty

Here’s where things get messy. Since I wasn’t able to find more of my existing tile I will be adding a contrasting tile behind the range instead. This meant cutting out a section of the backsplash.

Once the section of the old backsplash was removed I patched the hole with a new tile backer board. and test hung the new hood to see where it would lay out.

Then came what for me is the worst part of any project, drywall repair. It’s not the repair itself I hate dut the dust it creates. Dust so fine it penetrates every crack and crevice and leaves a fine layer of dust over everything. You can see the dust still in the air in the photo below.

Once this hateful job was done I primed my repairs and moved on to my second hateful job, painting the ceilings. My husband came in to assist a bit when he heard me cursing the ceiling so I guess that was a plus. I also managed to get the repaired walls painted as well.

While the paint inside dried I put a coat of primer on the range hood out in the garage.

Airing it Out

Since we are talking range hoods I’ll share what my husband was working on. We will be using a Zline Wood hood with a remote fan. This means the fan is not in the hood itself but mounted in the attic. That meant someone had to go in the attic and mount it., thankfully my husband was dead set on this attic-mounted fan so he volunteered for this job. Bless him, because here in South Carolina Fall has not arrived yet so it is quite hot in the attic.

Let me explain the photos above since the shingles in the attic confused many people on my IG stories. The original kitchen roof is very low pitch and would not accommodate the fan. Fortunately, there is an addition over the kitchen roof that does have enough pitch to accommodate the fan so we cut a hole in the old roof and will run a flex duct from the fan down through the ceiling into the hood. We will have to wait for these connections until after the hood gets installed permanently.

All in all, we accomplished a lot on the kitchen remodel this week but I am realizing for every item I cross off the To-Do two more get added on. This doesn’t exactly seem like progress does it?

THE TO DO LIST

• Demo cabinets
• Peel Thermofoil and paint cabinets
• Run new electrical for lighting and hood
• Reinstall cabinet and drawer fronts
• Repair Drywall
• Paint ceiling
• Cut out old tile behind range
• Install new tile backsplash behind hood
• Build out cabinet soffit and microwave cabinet
• Prime and Paint hood
• Install hood
• Remove plantation shutter and repair trim
• Trim out soffit and repair crown molding
• Bar top construction
• Install floating shelves
• Tile back of bar
• Install cabinet hardware
• Install wallpaper
• Recover dining chair seats
• Sew roman shade