This Old House...

This is what my kitchen looks like currently...

...and the hole is about to get a LOT bigger. Don't you LOVE surprises?!


So last week we got a call from Jennifer who said that their neighbor John was remodeling his kitchen and would we like any of his old cabinetry? Initially, we thought no. We should have stuck with our initial instincts. But, we got to thinking that it would be nice to have a dishwasher (yes, apparently we do live in the dark ages - we don't have cell phones either). Innocently, we mused it would be easy enough to take one drawer unit to replace the one that would need to be ripped out so a dishwasher could be installed. The new drawer unit would fit nicely in the empty space between the oven and back door. Easy as pie, we thought.

Then we scoured Craigslist and found a "Like New" dishwasher for less than a Ben Franklin, and our confidence soared! "Hooray!" We thought, "Aren't we thrifty?"

Well, Jed started demo on the existing cupboard, and while emptying out the contents from under the sink he discovered dry rot. Not only has it completely destroyed the sink cabinet, but it also goes down through the subfloor and the floorboards and also has rotted out the foundation header.

Hooray.

Oh, and the oven fell out. Yes, you read right. Apparently, the people who installed it didn't think it needed to be bolted in place. They also didn't think the 220 circuit needed a box either!

Thankfully, the oven didn't suffer much damage, and I am happy that we didn't discover the bolting issue in another unfortunate way. (Can we say earthquake?)

For now we are just doing damage control, so for awhile my kitchen is going to be even MORE of an eyesore than it already was!

Ha ha ha...

I had thought it couldn't get any worse. Silly me!