How to Survive a Kitchen Remodel and Still Eat Real Food - Part 1: Planning

For the past decade, I've been dreaming about remodeling our kitchen. When we moved into this home, it had been just two years after doing a massive remodel of our kitchen in our old farmhouse. It turned out gorgeous, too. I'd share pictures if I could but they're stuck on an old external hard drive that won't boot up anymore.

Last year we took some steps for financing this project when our home equity line of credit came up for renewal. We decided to go with a full home appraisal with the expectation that we had enough equity built up to be able to fund our project. Sure enough, that was fine. But we just weren't ready to pull the trigger on the project.

After Christmas, we decided it's time to think about our budget, start coming up with design ideas and begin our contractor search. It really helped having done this before because we knew what to expect AND we could build upon lessons learned before.

I decided to document our journey - our survival, that is - of this project. Not only because it's fun to see how kitchen remodels turn out but mainly because I want to share how I'm doing to do this AND STILL EAT REAL FOOD!!