Hick House Downstairs: Kitchen Renovation

The kitchen of Hick House was enough to make you nauseous! To make you appreciate Hick's handiwork more, let's start with the first pictures of the kitchen. If you like to think about where in the house the kitchen is located, you can refer to your Paper Plate Blueprint again. The kitchen is on the left side of the house, at the back.

Yes. This is the KITCHEN! It's full of junk that HOS (Hick's Oldest Son) hauled in from the living room and bedroom, so he and Hick could set up a saw and other handyman tools without tripping over stuff. That's the only window. It looks out on the downhill side. Hick and HOS replaced it with a smaller window, which you can see from the post a few days ago. It looks towards a little creek, and a neighbor's house through a few trees.

This is the same wall, to the right. The built-in cabinets will stay (and be scoured within an inch of their sorry lives). I'm pretty sure that clock won't survive the culling.

Here's the old kitchen sink. Aside from those built-ins, Hick and HOS threw away everything AND the kitchen sink! Don't worry, though. Hick got a NEW kitchen sink! In fact, he got cabinets, countertop, and sink with fixtures for the low, low price of $250.

Here's the tall, pantry-like cabinet, posed near the decluttered built-ins.

And there's HOS, playing Carol Merrill beside the uppers.

And the counter and sink set into place under the window (before replacement), on March 2.

Hick has been working on the kitchen this week. He had some flooring given to him by an old crony, and decided to use it for the backsplash.


Of course I complained because this $5000 house is getting a stainless steel sink! Hick kindly offered to rip out my own almond-colored sink of the past 21 years, to put it in this house, and give me the stainless steel. No thanks. The last thing I need is Hick putting my kitchen sink on the back burner of his renovation projects!


Here's the renovated corner of the kitchen as of Tuesday (March 12). Hick is planning on using a piece of 1x to trim along the top of his flooring backsplash. He'll cut a groove in it, like making an L-shape, and fasten it along the top edge. The hole under the counter will not have a dishwasher, but will be used for a wastebasket, or perhaps have some shelves built in. The walls will be painted.

Hick said he and HOS are working with drywall around a flue corner of the kitchen (in the back left corner from this view). There's going to be a built-in table. So the kitchen was undergoing updates as this went to press.

 This isn't a going to be a palace. Just a safe, livable house that will pass city inspection.