The Kitchen Remodel cont.

So Sunday morning I got up early and talked my way out of going to church, so I could finish up the small areas above the kitchen cabinets. Mom had planned to use a different background paper up above the cabinets....luckily....since we used every piece of the other stuff. This part of the job went really fast and we finished up early in the afternoon. Later, we put up the new light fixture on the cabinet end of the room.

On Monday, we headed downtown to one of the old hardware stores. We were in search of something to clean up the barnboard and a paint to "match" the wallpaper under the soffet area. We lucked out. Nicholsons Hardware fit the bill. Not one guy in there had less than 20 years experience.

The first guy took our sample of wallpaper, a color wheel and went outside to find a good match. He was back in under five minutes with a perfect match. So perfect we ended up using it to fix a couple of our goofs...but I won't ever tell you where they were! LOL

Then we talked about the barnboard. The hardware guy took a look at the piece we had chipped off and said the best thing to do was clean it up with paint thinner! Now I was very surprised by that...but it worked perfectly. The fumes dissapated after a day or so and it really did a nice job of cleaning it up. There is no danger of explosion or spontaneous combustion...just a good cleaner for wood.

After doing that, we decided the fake wood baseboards just could not go back on...so off we went for a trip to Home Depot for a baseboard expedition. I showed Mom my suggestion...a four inch peice of 1 inch stock that was perfect...but she really like the smaller 2 inch stock. Either size was in the budget, so we went with what she liked. We also picked up a container of the polyurethane with color to match the barnboard and headed back home to finish the project. By the end of the night, we had finished making the cuts, but, we had to let things dry before tacking them on.

The next morning we tacked the new baseboards on and then replaced the electrical fittings. That basically finished the major work. We just had to move everything back in place. But, Mom had one more job in mind...