Spring Break Remo Day 3, Install Double Oven, Install Front Door and ETC

So...first order of the day, run to Lowes, get some lumber needed to get our "new" wall oven in!! YES!  Get home with lumber and WAIT...HOLD THE PHONE!!!  I didn't notice but precious people that owned this house before did not do a stand up job when they installed the old golden harvest double ovens.  So my appliance garage (the compartment directly above the ovens) is split down the middle!!! Lovely! REALLY, in what universe is this a good idea.  Didn't plan this of course when i bought the lumber and after much working in this area, it turns out that it will be better on the integrity of the structure to just shore it up, which is good, because i can use ugly wood for that, no one's going to see it.

 

Before the final "shore up" of my appliance garage shelf, i half to put in the box and the oven to make sure there is enough room for everything in there.  The oven is pretty heavy and we've already lifted it up in to the hole and set it on the frame i built, so we're not taking it out, cause i only had the little wifey to help!!! So now it's quite tricky to get the box in behind the oven! But here it is, Steph was laughing at me trying to hold the screw and the drill and squeezing it in to that small space!  So if you do this make sure the power's off of course, then install your box, and connect your oven before you lift it up in to the hole!

Now the oven is in, hooked up to power.

WOO HOO doesn't it look good!!  It is occurring to me that it is going to need more frame to go up and around the side and top so....

So you can't see it very well but now there is frame around the oven.  The appliance garage is shored up with 2X4's and the old shelf we had to cut out to fit this one in.  I've even attached the bottom "kick plate" in this picture.

Here it is with the rest of the moulding, working on the 40 coats of paint right now!

Finished just in time for lunch, let's see if this craigslist purchase works!  Crossing fingers!

Wow, I forgot how to cook in a real oven.  It works great!!! Thank you Lord, this was much easier that cutting out the cabinets under the cook top.

So, momma was scheduled to hand with a girlfriend for the afternoon, so we popped in I Love Lucy, which the girlies like to watch and I guess it is rather benign, it's free of a lot of stuff in TV today, but we've noticed it has it's issues!

Anyway, while we're watching, I'm inspired to help Annelise with her project for India that she is doing.  If you want to check it out go here BARRETTES FOR BANGALORE

We made a new "story board" like thing with puff paint, cut lots of fabric and made a huge mess!!!!

YAY Mommy's home, time to work on the front door!!! I don't like peeling away moulding that has been painted 95 times and is 50 years old, but you gotta do what you gotta do!!  Our old front door was super duper old, most likely original, and any frail old grandma could've kicked her foot right through it. I forgot to take a before pic but you can see it in the background.  In fact, i didn't take any pictures after these, too tired i guess!  I don't even have one of the finished product, i'll take one tomorrow in the daylight!

 I have to cut it here, I don't have any more energy OR pictures. The door came out and the new went in fairly well.  I'll plug in the pics later.
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