Island Demolition: Part 2

Day 2 and 3 are mixed in here: there's been less overall change, but still lots of work.

Nate removed the last of the old frame. We're going to reuse the section at the back.

 

Holy crap is that live wire dangerous looking! We've taped it, but still have to watch Jill.

We spent a bunch of time spray painting the new cabinets. I think from here on out we'll paint by hand.

We decided to place everything to make sure our idea would actually work.

If it didn't, I'm not sure what we would have done.

But it does! (If you've got a good imagination)

While I was busy painting, Nate built risers for the cabinets. The cabinets are 1.5 inches shorter than the bookcases, so we needed to bring the cabinets up. Nate used 2x4s for the frames.

Nate then fed the electrical wire through the riser. We'll be able to hide it entirely!

At this point, we placed everything again, and marked the linoleum about an inch further out all around the island base. We're adding baseboard to the bottom of the island, which is 3/4 of an inch thick, plus we want a little extra, so when the rest of the linoleum gets removed in a few months in favor of tile, the workers won't have to ding our new island (hopefully!).

Nate used a utility knife to slice the linoleum, and then pulled!

 It took a little bit of time to clean up the cement, but my parents had lent us a tool to help. While I cleaned the cement, Nate worked on installing the new beadboard backings to the bookcases.

Thankfully, my grandparents had bought us a new tool bit set for Christmas. We used up two bits making the holes!

There's a bookcase with a new beadboard back! We're continuing to make progress; expect more photos soon.