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Also, no cuisine gatekeeping here, please. If you love pineapple and strawberries on pizza, or mushrooms and jellytots in carbonara, them you do you!
That's my kitchen being demolished.
Normal service will resume, if they can put it back together again!
if they can put it back together again
Why would anybody demolish a kitchen and then put it back together again? I’d want something new and better for the trouble!
Joking aside, I hope your project goes well.
I have a couple of friends who are die hard thrifters. They check things like Facebook Marketplace and the local Craigslist for all sorts of shit. The kind of person who gets excited when they see like a pile of sand outside or a dumpster, they go check out what the project is and if there is some old shit they can get for free. In my eyes it's usually a lot of crap and not worth the effort, but I respect the game, respect the recycling/re-use aspect and sometimes it's really cool old stuff which is worth restoring.
In my dealings with these friends I have not once, but twice taken apart some random kitchen somewhere with the purpose of putting it back together again. It feels really weird to just show up at someones home, who wants their kitchen demolished. But we offer to do it for them, so we can know how shit went together and prevent any damage from taking it apart. One time we took the kitchen apart and put it back together more or less as it was, but in the garage of my friend. Very useful to have a bunch of storage space and a good working surface. The other time it was a vintage kitchen which was falling apart, it was trash. I spent so much time sanding, cutting out old pieces of bad wood, matching new pieces of the right kind of wood, painting, varnishing etc. But in the end it turned out as a beautiful "new" kitchen, they still use that kitchen every day for the past 8 years.
At least you've got people in to do it!
Glares at the half finished kitchen taking up my time too
Dodgy builders or overambitions DIY project?
Yes.
Edit: More doing a lot of DIY to bring the project into a budget I can afford.
Which means getting specialists in to do smaller things between me doing the grunt work.
My parents passed their use-by dates and left me enough cash that we could afford a main contractor who's pretty much sorting it all out. So far super impressed with them compared to builders I've used in the past.
No kitchen cooking challenge!
I'm managing. I have a single electric hot plate, a slow cooker, an airfryer, and my barbecue outside. But I'm just dishing up minimal effort / minimal washing up food at the moment!
How I wish my kitchen(ette) would be demolished. sigh
I hope you get a gorgeous new kitchen soon.
Progress is happening!
