Kitchen Remod In Progress
 

Started to update the kitchen should be able to put in my stove soon. This is where the stove is going. When I bought the house I fell in love with this mantle and always wanted to put a six burner in it.

I took out the meaningless junk collector hole to make it wide open. I will have another 24" cabinet made for the right side of the stove.

Trying to pick granite countertops for the cabinets too. Hard decision they cost so much and I don't want to get sick of looking at them.

Pics
 

forgot to add'em. Also pics of the island cabinet (peninsula) I had made. It was the same price to have this made to match perfectly and the way I wanted with all the doors being able to open, as it was to use mix and match pieces from prefab cabinet guys.

The cabinet maker did an incredible job matching the existing cabinets.

This is an idea of the look I am going for
 

the to the left of the sink was the end of the counter space I am trying to add a bunch more.

again

looking pretty good. love the brick. how old is the house?

lookin good there jj

Thanks, it was built in 1976.

I am contemplating doing the brick repair work myself. I have never worked with mortar and bricks before (virgin mason) so let me know if you think it is too much. I don’t know what I could mess up. It is not a structural wall, just cosmetics. There is no second floor and the mantle ends at the ceiling.

There are two walls to the mantle an interior and exterior (backside facing my living room). Nothing I have done has affected the exterior wall.

In Pic 1 and 2, above the plywood they used partial bricks. The plywood is cemented in. So that potion of wall has to be knocked down (about a 3’ wide by 2’ tall section), plywood pulled out and rebuilt with bricks the long way.

Then they used cinder blocks on the inside upper right corner. They came right out but that has to be rebuilt with bricks as well.

In Pic 3 and 4 on the right side of the stove, where cuddy hole wall the joined the back wall, there are some bricks sticking out the long way. Only 5 or 6 of these rows will be visible once I put the stove and 24” cabinet in. I know I can knock out the long bricks sticking out, but don’t know if I can put 3/4 - 7/8 size bricks in the long way to fill the holes.

I think a stainless back-splash could be used to cover a majority of the bricks on the right side above the stove (pending the bosses approval). But I want to try to fix it.

Does anyone think I should try this or am I better off getting a mason?

I think a stainless back-splash could be used to cover a majority of the bricks on the right side above the stove (pending the bosses approval). But I want to try to fix it.

I think you took the words rite out of my mouth , mite be alot of work weaveing those bricks in , keep up the good work.

Brick really is not as hard is it sounds.

It is just time consuming as h377.

The trick to the mortar is getting the right consistency and matching the
existing.
For my house, I can't use straight from the bag,
I have to mix special because of the age of the house.
Built in 1820, the bricks are soft and the mortar just as soft,
today's mortars would not allow the house to move and just break the bricks.

JJ that kitchen is off the chain full of character! VERY NICE! :hide: