Schedules and Work

As always, life has been busy!

I like busy. Time flies and you get a lot done (hopefully).

We started a new schedule two weeks ago (the first time we've had a schedule in a looooong time). My Dad is a complete visionary, he likes to be free to do what comes up, but unfortunately, with 16 individuals (and yes, we are individuals :-) )living in one household, life was becoming an efficiency nightmare. So we developed a schedule that allowed lots of flexibility!

You may wonder if that's even a schedule? For us, it's huge, rigid, strict, harsh...HAHAHA

OK, here's how it works:
Due to our heavy ministry on Sundays, ministry that often lasts until late into the night, we don't work on Monday. Monday is set aside as our planning day, meaning we all take time to get together as a family and plan out the week. The things that we plan range from who will drive what cars on what days to, how we'll restore America to it's godly heritage! :-) Our family loves to get together and plan so this usually takes several hours.
After planning, we can use whatever time is left to take care of things around the house, run errands, etc. Then it's to bed at 9:00 (8:30 for Jack and younger). Tuesday thru Friday, we (are supposed to) get up at 5:00, have breakfast, read the bible together... Leave the house for work by 6:30. Work time for all, is between 7 and 3:30, for those at home, that means chores first and whatever time is left is spent on school.

Now that you're bored to death...I'll talk about work. :-)

We just completed another kitchen (kitchen remodels are our latest venture), and because I actually took some pictures this time, I'll share them with you...if you don't care, fine. But if you want to see the latest in kitchen remodels, a revolution that's gonna take the world by storm...read on. :-)

Here's how the job went:
Before we started Dad (our sales rep) and the cabinet manufacturer spent several hours with the customer, designing and working out details.

Some before pics:

Before -looking from the inside out- Notice how the fridge sticks out, isolating the kitchen from the breakfast nook.


Before- from the other end


Day 1 - It didn't take our awesome crew long to get down to business. We hauled away over 1900lbs. of trash that day. (Part of the crew -left to right-:Dad, Merrie and Chris)


Gotta love the creativity of the previous electrician


When we tore open the pantry, as per plans, we discovered that the wall we were to remove was structural. Chris did a great job supporting the ceiling and adding a beam in order to make room for the new cabinets


By the end of day 2 (a 12 hour day) we had all of our electrical and plumbing roughed in and the walls ready for the drywallers (for you easterners, that's sheetrockers ;-0)


The tapers were done by the end of day 3 but unfortunately we had to do some touch-up to make it look good. We painted on day 5...


On day six, our cabinet installation crew was there by 7:00AM (That's my Uncles, Mike and Rick on the right)

Cabinet installation took two days. Granite started late in the day, on day 7. Granite and flooring were done by (midnight!!!) on day 8

On day 9, the cabinet manufacturer had to come back out and install all the doors and details (because they weren't done before the cabinets left the shop)


And on the tenth day, we installed all the appliences and the finishing touches.


You can still see some details the cabinet guys haven't done. The walls and ceiling are plain white because the customer wanted to save money by adding color themselves later.


Under cabinet lighting


Some beautiful trim detail by Chris


Under the sink, that's about 3 hours of work right there! Includes a three compartment sink and two filter systems.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to show all of the custom details built into this job, but when it's said and done, the customer will have nearly twice as much storage space in the same sized kitchen! Including, 54 full extension drawers, 7 pull out bread boards, a pantry with 4' deep, full extension drawers that are able to support 200lbs. each, a removable section where a dishwasher can be installed at a later date, two pull out spice racks, 6 'secret' drawers...all this and more, for a very competitive price. Have I sold you yet? What else do you want to know? :-)

On Monday, we're supposed to start another kitchen (much smaller) that should take 5 days! Hopefully, I will remember to take pictures as we go.

"Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." 1Cor 10:13

"For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe." 1Ti 4:10