Kitchen & garage: getting back to normal
The hard work in the kitchen is officially done! While I was out of town, Mr. Bunkport came to wrap up some odds and ends, including fitting this nice collar to the top of the vent hood: The past week has been all about dealing with the mountain of debris in the garage. Believe it or not, getting rid of the stove and 50-pound cast iron sink were the easiest part. The trash collection company gives us two free "bulky item" pickups per year, so all we had to do was schedule the pickup and drag the things out to the curb. I spent a day breaking down the rest of the stuff and moving it all to where the stove had been so that we can load it in a pickup truck and bring it down to the city dump. I spent another day setting up this bank of cabinets for the workshop area: That vise on the left side of the counter was left in the house by the previous owner. It's at least sixty years old. I also decided to reuse the rest of the upper cabinets: Better to put things away where they w...