It took longer than expected! But its done! And it looks great! I seriously cannot believe that we were able to make it work in such a small space, i mean seriously, its like a 12x8 room or something like that.
Here is the before!!!
So what we had to do was that white patch on the wall is where the plumbing was (this is the north wall) and the washer and dryer both sat there (to give you a visual) you can see the shelves overhead to the right.
On the left hand side in the part of the photo that you can't see, there were more overhead shelves then like a shelf thing that was hip high that wrapped around the wall. We took the plumbing from the middle of the north wall, and took it to the left under the window where the sink is going to go, and then to the right which is where the washer sits. The dryer vent was in the corner by the window, Are you ready??? Dun dun dun...
TA DA!!!!!! Can you believe it? It looks amazing! I seriously cannot believe we were able to make it work! And things that were not a coincidence happened, several times throughout this process. I had money set aside for this, but I didn't even realize that just to buy appliances, a stove, a fridge, a microwave, and a sink.. would be like $1,500 bucks! That was half of what I had set aside for the whole thing! Not to mention cabinets and labor. I don't mind buying used at all and had planned on buying used, but we needed compact size stove which I could not find any used, and online they were just as much a full size stove! I could not find a fridge either that was the right size (not full, and not mini fridge) So that dashed my hopes of being able to complete the kitchenette. And I would have to have mismatched cabinets that I can get for cheap or whatever. Not a big deal, it will still be a functioning kitchenette, i was still a little disappointed though. If we were going to all this work, I really wanted it to be nice.
But while browsing KSL one day looking for small base cabinets, I ran across an entire kitchen that someone was selling.. I mean the whole kitchen, not just cabinets. It came with the stove, which was the EXACT size I needed because it was an apartment kitchenette. It came with the sink and faucet. It came with upper and lower cabinets!! And it was only $400! You just had to come do the work yourself to rip it out. So my contractor and my dad went up there to start ripping out (which is a lot of work) but when they got up there, the home owners had already ripped it out and all my dad and contractor had to do was load it up. WOW! The sink alone, even used was going to be like $150, plus the stove/oven which was going to be like $500, and whatever the cost of cabinets. I easily would have spent probably $1,200 bucks on everything that I got for $400. That gave me enough money to buy everything else I needed for this, almost down to the penny! It even came with a microwave cabinet, I was actually going to buy a rack that went over the stove to put a microwave on and that was like $100 bucks too. It just wasn't coincidence.
As you can see, its just cement floor, tiling can come later haha I am NOT even going to worry about that right now. Its pretty small space! But it works! so the fridge is there on the right, and the washer is just to the north of that.
It works!
Moving the dryer stuff was interesting. I had to have an electrician come and do subpanel for the electricity, and then run wiring for the dryer which was like $400 bucks for the electric work. We ended up cutting a hole in the ceiling (from the spot over by the window in the 'before' picture, running the wires through the laundry room ceiling into the storage room, then he had to cut a hole in the CEMENT foundation of my house for the new dryer vent location. Cutting through the cement took like 2+ hours in itself! So the dryer is kind of off away, but we made it work!
I ended up making the decision not to move, so my niece and her boyfriend lucked out now they just get the kitchen to use even though I am not going anywhere :)
But I am so thankful for my dad and contractor and help from a few others who made this possible! I am so glad its done!
I lost a LOT of storage room space so I'm still really trying to adjust and figure out where to put all my food storage and other things that were stored in there without bombarding my shed into a huge mess, I want to sort and label stuff and put it away right the first time and not just throw it in my shed. I am trying to get more organized in life, but i've got a long road ahead of me, baby steps.
Anyway, all done! yay!
