7 Steps for Remodeling Your Kitchen and Saving Your Sanity

By Cara Linden

A funny and painful journey through successfully remodeling an old kitchen, with mistakes made and lessons learned.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Silver Penny Press
• Release date: Mar 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311690241

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7 Steps for Remodeling Your Kitchen and Saving Your Sanity

Cara Linden

Copyright 2014 by Cara Linden

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Introduction

Our kitchen was too small. Too outdated. Too worn-down. The details we'd found charming when we bought the house had lost their appeal. Plus, it always smelled like the grout cleaners I tried on the counters (useless), and the homemade cabinets were overstuffed with the groceries and plates. What had been a serviceable kitchen in the 1970's was sadly in need of renovation in the 2010's.

It was depressing. It was sad.

It was time for a change.

Despite a nightly addiction to watching HGTV, neither my husband Carl nor I felt qualified to remodel just as avidly watching football didn't make us ready to play in the NFL. We struck a deal; I'd do the research and planning, we'd make the major decisions together, and then he'd be in charge of the actual renovation.

Here's an ancient Chinese proverb: people make plans, and the kitchen gods laugh.

Okay, perhaps I'm paraphrasing. Yet Fortune or Fate did intervene, in that my husband picked up a lucrative adjunct job that consumed most of his waking moments and left the remodeling to me. I worked from home, with the kids