At the beginning of July, 2007, we received a phone call from a fellow participant in a men's group which meets at a local church.  He and his wife were buying a house at the end of the month, and hoped to move in at the end of August, but knew they wanted the kitchen remodeled.  We met, at the house, the morning of the 4th of July, they closed at the end of July, and then we signed contracts and started work.

Here are some pictures of the kitchen, as it was when they bought the house: 

We expanded the kitchen into the breezeway behind the radiator and window, adding heat to the breezeway, and replaced the jalousie windows with modern, thermally efficient doors and windows.

By the third week of August, we had completed the demolition, roughed in the plumbing, heat and wiring, and were ready to start the process of putting things back together. The week before Labor Day, the family moved into the house, and by Labor Day, we had finished blue boarding and skim coating the walls of the kitchen, and the ceiling of the kitchen and breezeway. During the third week of September, the cabinets were mostly installed, enough so we could mount the microwave, hook up the stove, and template for the countertops. By mid October, the granite had been installed, the plumbing hooked up, and the kitchen was fully functional.  But not finished.  The client worked near the Expo, and selected their tile, which was supposed to be in stock, but was not, and then, four weeks later, came in partially damaged.  By mid-December, the tile was installed, the paint touched up, and the job was finished.