Green remodel - day 2

Day 2, still demolition, was more arduous than I anticipated and I accomplished about 1/3rd of what I wanted to do. But I conquered (yes I said conquered) the sauffets in the kitchen. The "arduous" part was because I discovered that they were actual structures of the ceiling. I thought they were built after the ceiling and attached to it, and would be relatively easy to remove. But as you can see below, they left behind some gaping holes. Thank goodness for sledge hammers!!




I also started working on a new set of floor cabinets for next to the fridge. I'm making them from other cabinets that I won't be using. For example, in the picture below you see what used to be the lazy suzan corner cabinet in our U-shaped kitchen. I've stripped down all but the facia and the sides, and will fashion a new cabinet from it. Using that plus what used to be a wall-mounted one (sitting in the background of the pic), I'll have 42 inches of cabinets for next to the fridge.

We ripped this corner cabinet out because Camila hates the little garage thingy at the bottom. I'm going to cut it off and reinstall the upper portion of the cabinet. This cabinet sits next to the sink, and you can see that over the years, water that got on the countertops has already started to rot the wood, so this was a good move.