AAH!

The kitchen project has been much more time consuming than and difficult than I thought. My SO works nights and I work days, so it has been difficult to really move forward like we wanted to. It is slowly coming together, and its going to have to because we are moving in....GULP......NEXT FRIDAY!  We are nervous about these time constraints and we thought we had more time (isn't that always the case?).

So far, we have replaced two more cabinets. Both we didn't realize until later that one had a gaping hole in the middle, and the other had so many drill holes underneath, that the new range hood would NEVER attach correctly.

Remember the big, gaping holes behind the backsplashes?

The hole in the wall led to nowhere, so it couldn't successfully be patched if I wanted to hang tile to the wall. Luckily, there were studs present and we were able to improvise.

We bought a small sheet of drywall ($4.50), drywall joint tape ($6), and a big tub of spackle ($6) My SO had to cut out the plaster to form a more solid shape for the drywall to fit in. He did this and then used the tape measure and box cutter to cut out the right size from the dry wall.

He then fit the new piece of drywall into the hole and screwed it to the stud. He put the drywall joint tape at the joints and then spackled it.

After this, he used a wet sanding sponge and lightly sanded it to even it out and make it flush with the rest of the wall. Now, the big gaping holes are gone!

If you have any questions on how we did this, please let me know.