{"id":3697,"date":"2009-12-15T20:25:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T01:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2009-12-15T20:25:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T01:25:02","slug":"remodeling-our-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/15\/remodeling-our-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"Remodeling Our Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/AmyEvaluatesKitchen.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Evaluates Kitchen in 2004\" title=\"Amy Evaluates Kitchen in 2004\" align=left hspace='6' class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3701\" \/>Late this summer Kyle and I started thinking about the possibility of remodeling our kitchen in 2010.  It&#8217;s been on our list of &#8220;eventual to-dos&#8221; since we moved into our house about 6 years ago.  That&#8217;s me to the left in 2004 when we were evaluating the house and figuring out if we wanted to buy it.  Notice the skeptical look on my face regarding the kitchen&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We knew a kitchen remodel would be a fairly sizeable undertaking both budget and time-wise, so it&#8217;s taken us awhile to get there financially, mentally and emotionally.  But we&#8217;ve realized that we aren&#8217;t going to be moving any time soon and that we might as well go ahead with the project so that we can actually benefit from it and enjoy it.  We&#8217;ve been working with a contractor and designer during the last month and determined that the project will begin in January- after the holiday season and before we&#8217;re running at full steam with the crazy spring real estate market.<\/p>\n<p>I know this is going to be a learning experience (it already has been, even at this early stage), so I figured that we would share our experiences as we go along.  During the upcoming weeks I&#8217;ll be addressing these topics&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Budgeting for a remodel<br \/>\nDesigning the layout- function, fit, and feasibility<br \/>\nWhat to do with your old kitchen stuff- reduce, reuse, recycle\/donate<br \/>\nDoing a period appropriate remodel<br \/>\nChoosing appliances<br \/>\nChoosing finishes- countertop, knobs, lighting, cabinet color, wall color<br \/>\nLiving through a remodel<\/p>\n<p>If you see something obvious that I&#8217;ve left out or have other topics related to a remodel that you&#8217;d like addressed, just leave a comment here and I&#8217;ll try to cover it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late this summer Kyle and I started thinking about the possibility of remodeling our kitchen in 2010. It&#8217;s been on our list of &#8220;eventual to-dos&#8221; since we moved into our house about 6 years ago. That&#8217;s me to the left in 2004 when we were evaluating the house and figuring out if we wanted to buy it. Notice the skeptical look on my face regarding the kitchen&#8230; We knew a kitchen remodel would be a<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt three\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/15\/remodeling-our-kitchen\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1579],"tags":[1931,4017,2415,2679,3064],"class_list":["post-3697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-maintenance","tag-construction","tag-hartford","tag-kitchen-remodel","tag-project","tag-west-end"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}