Project Townhouse: 1st Time Buyers

[JPolen01]

The counter tops on the right side of the picture aren't secured. They are just resting there so they are a bit higher than when they are secured. They were removed because the cabinets under them got moved around. Once the new counters are in I will make sure everything is set the way it should be.

[Sully]

Ah fair enough. I thought the left side looked closer but wasn't sure if the angle and the black stove and "black" cabinet frames were playing tricks on me

[JPolen01]

Some before and afters of the cabinets.

[Jewels]

Looks real good PoleCat. You've done well in my opinion. So take that for what it is.

[Steve85]

Agree, great transformation! I also hate drywall work. It's dirty and if you don't do it nearly perfect, the paint highlights every nuke, cranny and ripple.

[V1GiLaNtE]

Helluva transformation. Looks fantastic.

[Sully]

Can't believe you sacrificed the wall phone. You're going to regret that bro.

[JPolen01]

Can't believe you sacrificed the wall phone. You're going to regret that bro.

I never thought I would say that but I slightly regret it. Our verizon account got locked so we couldn't check our bill online. When we called up unlock it, the only option to unlock it was to have them call our home phone with an automated pin. We didn't even know our home phone number and then obviously didn't have an actual phone. It took forever to get straightened out. They ended up leaving us a voice mail on our home number and had us call our voice mail from our cell phone. So much time wasted on the phone with verizon.

[Sully]

We haven't had a home phone in years and actually our old home number is now my dad's cell phone so that wouldn't even be an option.

Funny though, the rental property down in FL is being rented by Canadians right now and they expected us to have a land line so they can call Canada so now we have to get a landline and house phone setup down there for them

[ScottyB]

just catching up to this but wow, nice work man. love the updates, subtle and timeless.

i will gladly dive under a car to do suspension work or an oil change, but fishing wires and drywall mudding? forget that! you're braver than me.

[Sully]

Mudding really isn't that hard. Why is everyone so afraid of it? Yes it's messy as hell when you sand it but it's really not bad. Way easier than mudding a car. Luckily, i had pretty decent drywall skills to fix the spot where lincoln put the kid through the wall in our apartment. That, and a very large Koni banner to cover up the spot during the spring inspection when I was still working on it lol

[JPolen01]

It's not the mudding that sucks - I could mud all day. It's the sanding. And how time consuming it is. Mud, wait for it to dry, sand. Then do it again 2-3 times.

I was really afraid there would be a lot of imperfections they would show when we painted. Well we painted the kitchen yesterday. I did one coat of primer on the new dry wall followed by 2 coats of paint on the whole kitchen and it turned out really well. I'll take some more pictures next weekend once the counter tops are installed.

[nismosam]

You can always use a heat gun to speed up the process. Drywall repair is probably 80% of my summer job that I've been doing for about 8 years. Sadly, there's really nothing to speed up the sanding process other than mudding tighter, so there's just less of it to sand.

[Sully]

The time it takes doesn't bother me as much as the mess sanding makes and when it's a pheasant run apartment and you could really care less about how it looks other than to match the shitty drywall and paint work everywhere else and you're using your house vacuum to clean it up, and you didn't put the kid through the wall but your roommate is horrible at drywall no matter how good he thinks he is, there's only so many coats I'm going to do before I say fuck it. Oh and when he buys two small sheets of drywall because it fits in his s4 and adds another joint to be mudded in the middle of the hole.

Also, didn't want to call you out on Facebook but the stove still isn't level. Looks kinda like you're trying to stance your stove bro.

And i couldn't help but notice, why don't you make that wall of small useless high up cabinets that you can't reach( come on bro, you're just as real as me, we can't reach that shit) into full size cabinets and double your storage space

[*insertusernamehere*]

And i couldn't help but notice, why don't you make that wall of small useless high up cabinets that you can't reach( come on bro, you're just as real as me, we can't reach that shit) into full size cabinets and double your storage space

I don't know what Jon's answer is but i think its better to leave it so that part of the counter top can have breathing space above your head and he has a window right there too, so it gives better light flow into the house. And the cupboards being black already suck some of the light away. If anything, just to utilize the wall space, you could get some kind of open cabinet/shelf thing that'll keep the area more spacious feeling... I'm a bit claustrophobic if you couldn't tell lol.

Something like the shelves in this (but i think your cupboards look fine):


I am curious though... can you reach those cupboards?

[Sully]

If I recall, jon is about the same height as me, I feel like I could open them but I would need a step to put anything in or get anything out lol

[JPolen01]

So I did some investigating as to why the stove/counter height isn't even. When the floor was laid they put the cabinet to the right of the stove on the actual floor. The rest of the cabinets are only sitting on the subfloor so they sit lower. It is what it is. I'm not going to pull the cabinets out to remove the floor under them (can't really do that now with a giant rock sitting on top either). We went with the shorter cabinets higher up to give it more of an open feel. It felt so cramped with the larger cabinets and it kind of crowded the counter space. I'll throw up some finished shots tomorrow.

[davej]

Oh and when he buys two small sheets of drywall because it fits in his s4 and adds another joint to be mudded in the middle of the hole.

:lol: you're lucky he didn't take the bike to Lowes or you would have ended up with a bunch of 2" strips taped to the fairings.

that stinks about the initial install Jon, think it was like that when built, or did someone else expand the kitchen and not cut the floor away?

[JPolen01]

Oh and when he buys two small sheets of drywall because it fits in his s4 and adds another joint to be mudded in the middle of the hole.

that stinks about the initial install Jon, think it was like that when built, or did someone else expand the kitchen and not cut the floor away?

I think someone put down new flooring and added another cabinet to the right of the stove right on top of the floor.

[JPolen01]

For those that didn't see this on facebook. Granite was installed Saturday. My buddy and I installed the new faucet and disposal (old one shit the bed 2 days after we moved in :thumbup: ) This project is 98% complete for now. We plan to do a few recessed lights in the kitchen to replace the fluorescent fixture. 1) it's ugly as shit and 2) the kitchen needs a bit more light. I'll probably look into some under cabinet lighting as well. I haven't done any research but I'm thinking some LED under cabinet light strips.