Well the last week has been busy. Last weekend and this past holiday weekend I spent closing up the walls and ceiling, (drywall, mudding, taping, painting) and then reinstalling the kitchen island in it’s new location. Here are a few pictures…
Wall closed up…
Textured and painted… (You can still sort of see the patch on the ceiling but that’s mostly due to the fact that the paint doesn’t quite match the existing. We a spot like this in the kitchen as well. This should all get cleared up when we have the house painted later this year.)
Some pictures of the island in it’s new home…
The kitchen island wouldn’t have been such a big deal if it weren’t for the fact that in addition to the electrical outlet, it also contains our central-vac kick plate. Since the island moved about 12 feet from the middle of the kitchen to it’s new home in the bay window I needed to extend that length of pipe for the vac. Lucky for me I found this great 2″” flexible PVC pipe that allowed me to extend the line without having to build all the pipes and connectors using standard PVC. In fact because the system does not contain water I decided that I wouldn’t’ even bother using PVC cement and instead just duct taped the overlapping connections. This has the added benefit of being easy to take apart if something does get stuck in there in the future. The electrical was easier to move since I was able to pull the line down and move it so that there was just enough wire to reach the new location without having to install a junction box. I suppose if I had needed to I could have put one in the crawlspace, but I was very tired of being in the crawlspace. Between the duct, the pipe, the electrical, the vac, the speaker wire. (Oh yeah I ran speaker wire to the ceiling before I closed in the walls.) I’ve been down in the crawlspace about a dozen times in the last month. It’s not really that bad down there, I just don’t like it.
