This past week, we bid adieu to our kitchen. 10 years ago when we painted the cabinets, put down peel and stick tiles, a very cheap countertop and slapped some paint on the walls, I seriously thought we would be doing a real renovation in a year or two. I was seriously wrong.

A decade later, we are finally getting around to truly renovating the kitchen. This one won’t be a DIY project and my father gets to put his feet up! We have hired Albaugh & Sons to complete the renovation.

Let’s go back, back into time to where it all began. Sadly, we only have these two pictures of the original kitchen, but I think they convey the mess well enough.

If you want the full story on how we updated that mess, read my Don’t Stop Believing post.

Fast forward to the no-so-distant past – last week. Jeff and I packed up way too many champagne glasses, lots of coffee cups, expired food and every last item left in the kitchen.

This Wednesday , the team from Albaugh & Sons got busy tearing everything else out. Now we’ve got a very dirty clean slate.

I’ll do my best to document our progress here on the blog. I’ll share my design plans next week.