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I think I've learned a lesson about blogging.  That lesson is:  Never mention a follow up post before you have it ready to publish.  Twice I have promised a post on the vanity for the new powder room and again....I'm still waiting to get final pictures.  There have been some delays and a rearrangment in priorities.  With that said, I am ready to tell you what has been happening with this project.  The vanity post will air.....no more predictions as to when! We left off with this butler's pantry being removed and the upper cabinets being reinstalled in the basement. After demo of the wall, we are now able to walk from the pantry area into the alcove of the dining room. Here is the view from the new powder room looking into the pantry and past that to the kitchen.  The powder room door will be just this side of the window you see in this photo.  So, basicly, I will still have the same size pantry but without the cabinets. The framing for the door is now up wit

I promised the story on the vanity as this next post but I am still waiting on the quartz top and showing it without would be, in my opinion, not satisfying.  So, soon, very soon, I hope.  In the meantime we are moving forward. Step one of this new powder room was to remove the pantry cabinets and relocate them to the basement.  So to refresh, here it is... and here it isn't. I should have documented the removal with photos but I was helping where I could and it was too late when I thought of taking pictures.  The doors and shelves were removed first. Then the trim at the top was removed.  At that point we attempted to remove the entire upper cabinet frame.  Remember, we are in tight quarters here.  It was quite tricky as there was no wiggle room..this was wall to wall cabinet but my brother, Dan, managed it beautifully.  Once it was on the floor some of the top braces had to be cut just to get it through the pantry door.  There was more cutting involved in an attemp

One thing I knew for sure is that I did not want a traditional vanity in my new powder room.  What I didn't know is how hard it would be to find a piece of furniture that would accomodate a sink, be the right height, and fit into the 42" space allowed by the plan. I'm pretty familiar with the shops that sell used furniture and I hit them all. One of these shops might have that piece next week or next month but I was not waiting until they did. I was ready to go now. I finally found this piece that was scheduled for an auction.  I could have waited 3 days for the auction and possibly gotten it for less....or more, depending.  But I had a bird in the hand and I was not going to risk it. Next mission was to find a sink that would fit and a faucet as well.  I lucked out by checking online.  I found this sink on Amazon and had it within three days.  It is an undermount and with some slight adjustments to the furniture piece (fingers crossed) it will drop into the space b

After 35 years in the same house, I have finally decided to put a powder room on the first floor.  Why did I wait so long?  The simple answer is that there was no place to put a powder room that didn't require giving up parts of the house I liked just the way they were.  But the decision has been made and demo begins tomorrow! This is the layout of the first floor.  Obviously, if money grew on trees, there would be some really fancy solutions that would probably include an addition and a bigger kitchen.  All of which would be lovely but not in the budget. Realistically, I needed to do this within the parameters of the exisiting footprint.  I mapped it out in my mind in a varitey of places but it always came back to putting it in the alcove of the dining room. The entry to the powder room would be through the existing panty.  The door  would start at the wall on the right ( just out of the photo...very hard to get a good shot of this small room) and end just about the cente