The Parker Travels

Our kitchen in the PUP has gone through quite the makeover! The first thing we did was rip the old stove out . That left this nice hole in our countertop where the stove used to be. We then took out all the drawers and cabinets, leaving more holes to fill…  Time to start rebuilding this galley. We primed and painted everything. Including the refrigerator door. That got a nice new coat of primer and then black chalkboard paint! The galley handle and chain cover also got a coat of black paint to match. New doors and drawers were built , primed, painted and installed as well.  Next it was time to tackle the countertop . Building the countertop from scratch was the best idea we had. It turned out so nice with its matching sink cover! Here we have all our hard work put together! The last bit we did to the galley was replace the basket strainer with a bar sink basket strainer  from Lowes. The old...

This thing is a mess. We took the stove out a few months ago and now its finally time to put a new counter top together for this galley. We are keeping the sink so Kyle traced out just that portion of the old counter onto this  Edge Glued Finger Joint Pine Board  we got from Lowes. He then used our largest drill bit to rough out some holes for the faucet. Then he used the jigsaw to cut out the hole for the sink.  I took that piece he cut out and used grandpas belt sander to smooth out the edges and make them rounded over. We can use this scrap piece as a sink cover when we aren't using the sink now! I also rounded off the square corners of the counter top so you can't hurt yourself by running into them. Looks like a happy little countertop now! This is what the countertop will look like all put back together.  Now we just need to pick a stain color! Decisions decisions... Che...