Ikea Kitchen Remodel at Newkirk Painting Plus, Columbus, Ohio

Well we are almost finished and here are some photos to commemorate the Ikea Kitchen occasion.

Here’s a photo of the south wall. We’re looking to add a little color in the form of a rug and/or backsplash. It turned out a little black and white but we’ll fix that. Also the flash on my camera kind of bleached things out a bit.

Did you forget what the before photo looked like?

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We’re coming close to the end of the Ikea Kitchen Remodel. We did some clean up over the weekend. Prior to a kitchen remodel, you may want to just remove your blinds or wrap them in plastic. Granted, not all of this dust is attributable to the kitchen remodel but whoa, what a mess! With new white cabinets, our white appliances and white blinds needed a thorough cleaning.

Other things to consider before a kitchen remodel:

- If you are keeping your appliances or if the new ones have arrived, move them to another room during the remodel. They stay much cleaner.

- An air purifier may come in handy for all the dust that is generated during a remodel.

- Keep the dust contained by shutting off other rooms.

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Here’s the latest on the Ikea Kitchen Renovation. Jerry and ALISTAIR came up with this little workaround for the register vent. The cabinet will be sitting on top of it so they fashioned a means of redirecting the air flow out of the vent. They will add a vent to the toe-kick to finish the job. Not a bad little workaround, huh?

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Hey, we added a new recessed light above the sink, and it’s on a switch instead of a chain pull! Oh yeah!
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Ok, we’ve got some drywall to finish up. Here’s Jerry working on the corners.
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We showed up at Ikea this morning a little before 11 am. Here’s Jerry fiddling with the kitchen design at Ikea’s kitchen planning station. For some reason, Ikea just can’t take your order that you’ve created at the kitchen planning station. They have to input the order again into their computers. This took about 40 minutes for them to do. The fun begins.

I should back up. We had to return the Tundra Maple Flooring first. I was getting some attitude from the return lady. One of the flooring packages had opened slightly somewhere in the midst of its loading, unloading, reloading, and unloading again. This slight tear in the plastic set her off and she became the return lady nazi. I exaggerate a bit but for a moment I thought I wasn’t going to be able to return a pack of crappy flooring. From there we headed up to the kitchen department.

After waiting for the Ikea help to enter our kitchen order, we paid for it and headed down to the furniture pickup zone (right next to returns). We were told that Ikea coworkers would get the order ready and that we were to watch the tv screen for 67400 to flash up letting us know our order was ready for pickup. This was told to us by some dude in a bunny suit. We were given an estimate of one hour.
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I didn’t get a before shot of this but we removed the cookie monster blue carpeting from the stairs. Although not kitchen related, it was ripe for the pickins.

Here we’ve added some drywall and moved some outlets.

Here’s another angle. The fridge is going into this location along with a 36″ floor and wall cabinet.

Another shot of drywall.

This is a blog created to document our Ikea Kitchen Remodel. It is currently in reverse chronological order. Skim through it and check out our progress. Oh Yeah!

Here’s Uncle Jerry working on a transition strip. Check out that hat!

Here’s the finished product.

El piso es almost finito. Here are some shots. Y no es mojado.

Floor should be finished tomorrow.

Here are some shots of the new floor installation. It’s going a lot smoother with the floor from Lowe’s. We had to ditch the Ikea floor. Overall, this is a better floor choice than the Tundra Maple from Ikea which would have probably been too light. This flooring is oak and made by Pergo.

Don’t be fooled by the pieces of flooring laying on top of the floor. This floor is going together very nicely.

Again, that’s a spare piece of flooring on top of the floor so don’t be fooled by it.