Home remodeling blog: Smashing up our kitchen

What the Buddenberg family's kitchen looks like now.

World-Herald reporter Roger Buddenberg and his wife are embarking on a major home remodeling project. He'll blog about the ups and downs, delays and accomplishments at omaha.com/living

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---------------------------------------------The Smashing

March 21

The thing about demolition is, even when you know its coming, it still knocks you on your heels a bit.

The place where weve eaten with the kids, played cards with friends, watched TV, read the paper basically lived our life for 14 years is gone. Its now studs and subfloor, wires and ducts.

Weve crammed ourselves into the rest of the house, which wouldnt be so bad except for lacking a kitchen. Weve still got a working microwave and fridge, though, so well manage.

The dust ripping out drywall makes a lot of it is an issue but not as bad as I feared. So far. We chose our contractor partly on his record of cleaning up after himself each day, and hes done about as well as we could expect. Plastic walls, complete with zippers so you can step through, separate the dirty parts of the house from the "clean."

Weve had to make a lot of materials choices in a short time. Its still kind of a blur. Some little things are sure to change as we go along, but the contractor was insistent about having most choices made before demolition began. Otherwise he couldnt promise to stay on schedule.

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