When we bought our “fixer upper” house we knew the kitchen was a disaster, we just didn’t realize how disastrous. With the exception of one wall all the old lath and plaster was shot had to be pulled down. The subfloor, we found out, had been replaced with cobbled-in-place plywood sheets, so the floor had to be ripped up to the joists. Other than the electrical, my wife and I did all the work ourselves during nights and weekends in what turned out to be a 14 month project. We even built the cabinets ourselves. A few of the original cabinets had been moved to the basement so we used them as models for the new cabinets as part of our effort to restore the historic beauty of our old house.
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Our 1920s vintage house had a 1960s vintage kitchen. Everything was peeling: the paint, the wallpaper, the flooring and our patience. Note the nice air conditioner (non-working) plugging up the window.
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Most of the plaster was shot and couldn't be saved. Here my wife is peeling the last of it away from the studs.
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This is me. It looks like I'm replacing the subfloor, but actually by this time in the project I am considering whether or not I can actually end it all by jumping between the joists and into the basement.
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At last, after more than a year of meals prepared in the sunroom with only a microwave oven and an electric skillet our kitchen was finished. (This view is looking into the same corner as picture #2--the plaster removal.)
