The kitchen has been cleared. Gary and I spent most of Friday night and Saturday packing up the kitchen in preparation for Monday, when Ideal Building comes in to tear it ALL out.

We moved everything into one of three places -- the Faux (temporary) Kitchen/Dining Room, the Basement or the Big Blue Dumpster on the street.

The fridge and the new microwave (that I picked up on the way home from work on Friday) are in the Faux Kitchen, along with the dining room table and other essentials that we will need over the next few months while construction continues. We will be eating off the grill or the microwave as we will not have a stove or oven until the end of the remodel.

Anything from the kitchen and pantry that was NOT essential was moved downstairs into the basement. We organized it so that everything is easily accessible if we need to get something but out of the way so the plumbers and air conditioning installers can still get around.

Then all the stuff that we haven't touched in years or stuff just not worth keeping was thrown out in the Big Blue Dumpster. And boy did we throw a lot of stuff in there.

So now we are ready to move to the next stage of the remodel... The Demolition!