That's what Dad and I worked on while Mom was out of town.
Friday morning we grouted the kitchen tile. First, we applied the grout with our trowels. After it hardened for a bit, we wiped the excess off. Over and over and over and over and over again. Eventually, it was wonderfully shiny again.
I totally love it!
That afternoon we bought some wood for trim in the kitchen.
Saturday was a half-day of work, but we accomplished a lot. I had saved the cabinets from the kitchen when I took them out. We spent the morning installing them in the garage. There wasn't enough space for the full L of the lower cabinets, so we didn't install the smaller part, which was kind of broken from being removed anyway. We were able to install both the upper cabinets, but not their doors. They were stupidly designed so that the door doesn't go the full length of all the cabinets and cuts off about a foot of the top shelf. We decided no doors would be more functional. On top of the base cabinet, we used an old door from the removed garage conversion as a counter top. It fit perfectly so we didn't have to cut it in anyway!
Sunday, we installed pegboard in the garage corner and I moved in a bunch of stuff. The garage is now totally clean and I can park a car in there!
I also converted the nearest outlet from a 220 one to a 110 one so that will be quite useful. Dad fixed a kitchen outlet that was sticking out from the tile too far. He then caulked the connection of the kitchen tile to the counter. Apparently that was a pain since the counter was wood. The caulk doesn't wipe up nearly as well as on tubs and tiles. I also got the kitchen trim pieces rubbed with Minwax so they'll be ready to go up next weekend.
We're so close to being done. It's awesome. I'll keep you posted about an open house coming in the future.
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