Comments on: The Grand Remodel: Before the walls come tumbling down (pre-construction) http://iwaruna.com/2009/08/23/the-grand-remodel-before-the-walls-come-tumbling-down-pre-construction/ The website of Sarah Liberman, containing a blog, gallery, recipes, and discussions about books, comics, food and software. Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:37:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Anita http://iwaruna.com/2009/08/23/the-grand-remodel-before-the-walls-come-tumbling-down-pre-construction/comment-page-1/#comment-1911 Anita Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:01:50 +0000 http://iwaruna.com/?p=725#comment-1911 We set up a temporary kitchen space in our laundry room; we already had a fridge in the garage. For us, the indispensable stuff was a large toaster oven (which would probably be replaced with a microwave for normal people!) and a two-burner portable stove. (You're welcome to borrow the latter if you like. :) ) We also brought the food processor, and we used it a lot more than we do normally, just because it made slicing, grating, etc a lot quicker. We also put one of those plastic laundry-room sinks-on-legs in the shower so we'd have someplace vaguely ergonomic to do our washing-up (our bathroom sink was too small). It meant we had to scrub the shower floor every time, but we'd have had to do that even if we'd used a washtub (and wrecked our knees/backs). And we grilled as much as we could. Pix of our temporary setup are here http://flickr.com/gp/marriedwithdinner/GY3pq0 ..although this just shows our single-burner "stove" -- we bought the two-burner unit very quickly. Feel free to ping me if you need more details. And good luck! We set up a temporary kitchen space in our laundry room; we already had a fridge in the garage. For us, the indispensable stuff was a large toaster oven (which would probably be replaced with a microwave for normal people!) and a two-burner portable stove. (You’re welcome to borrow the latter if you like. :) ) We also brought the food processor, and we used it a lot more than we do normally, just because it made slicing, grating, etc a lot quicker.

We also put one of those plastic laundry-room sinks-on-legs in the shower so we’d have someplace vaguely ergonomic to do our washing-up (our bathroom sink was too small). It meant we had to scrub the shower floor every time, but we’d have had to do that even if we’d used a washtub (and wrecked our knees/backs). And we grilled as much as we could.

Pix of our temporary setup are here
http://flickr.com/gp/marriedwithdinner/GY3pq0
..although this just shows our single-burner “stove” — we bought the two-burner unit very quickly.

Feel free to ping me if you need more details. And good luck!

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