We have a firm start date. Site preparation and light demolition will commence on April 2, with the bulk of the demolition occurring later that week. Our contractor dropped off the building permit yesterday. The plumber will install a new slop sink in the basement (temporary kitchen) sometime before this. So we need to be moved out of the kitchen, sunroom, and dining room in a week and a half. They’ll move the fridge (empty) and one old base cabinet (also empty) to the basement on the first day of heavy demolition, so the temporary kitchen won’t really be operational until then.
I did buy an induction hotplate for use in the temporary kitchen. Like the slop sink and spare fridge in the basement, I think we will get good use out of this even after the kitchen project is over.
Packing up is going fine, though Lis is less convinced than I am that we’re on track. I intend to make a major dent in it on Saturday. We cleaned up & reorganized the basement a couple weekends ago, but so far we’ve been selective in what we move downstairs. That ends this weekend. My plan is to move everything downstairs — with the stuff I anticipate needing kept handy — and move just those items temporarily back up into the real kitchen until we’re ready to get underway.
On the 3-season room front, we are closing in on a design. I met with the architect yesterday but there are a few dimensional problems with his sketches (which were based on measurements off a photo, not site measurements). The price is going to wind up being higher than we had hoped. The excess cost appears to be in the bare fact of putting on an addition, so tweaks to materials and configurations are not going to make a major difference; saving nickels and dimes on features and materials is just going to make us less happy with the end result.