We decided to do some preliminary updating even though we were uncertain about what to do with the kitchen cabinets and electrical challenges. Fortunately, my husband is incredibly talented in all aspects of home renovation. We could never, ever afford to hire someone to do this project for us. There are simply too many challenges involved that require a lot of attention to detail, creativity, talent, and a willingness to do the work correctly, in spite of the time involved. We began the project by knocking out the wall between the kitchen and dining room. We discovered that one of the posts was load bearing so we had to leave it. Then we removed the "unfortunate" tile counter and replaced it with black granite tile. We couldn't afford a custom solid-granite countertop because we wanted the counter to extend into the dining room. We removed the water heater and installed an "on-demand" water heater. Laminate wood flooring replaced the pink tile. I'm not totally pleased with the laminate flooring. It's hard to clean and not very durable. This may become another project in the future. We had to replace some of the metal cabinets with cheap wood cabinets due to some damage during removal but since we knew we'd eventually be replacing the cabinets we decided we could live with them for a while. We also built some cabinets under the countertop on the dining room side that we will use for storage. We have yet to install doors on these cabinets.
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