We’re at the beginning of it, not by choice. We’ve been told it could take up to 4-6 months. We haven’t designed anything yet; we’re finding cabinet lead times are 2-4 months, unless we go with in-stock cabinets. We’re using our laundry room as a make shift kitchen; I just ordered a double eye hot plate and combo air fryer/toaster oven/convection oven from Walmart. We moved the fridge to the dining room for now; if it would’ve fit through the doorway to the laundry room, I would’ve moved it in there. Good luck!
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Paper plates/cups/forks and a pressure cooker are GREAT. Quick wash in the bathtub and you’re ready for tomorrow. We just remodeled our bathrooms, and we’re going to be doing the broken- down kitchen soon. After waiting 8 weeks for the materials to arrive, the actual demo/install usually takes a few days assuming the materials are right. Work is tight, so there’s every incentive to get it done fast, so they can move on to the next house.
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I’m in the middle of a kitchen renovation! I often had to eat with relatives! But the completion of the process is just fine!
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We did ours in 2013. The remodeling company taped a schedule to the wall on the first day with every detail covered–drywall on the 13th at 10 AM, for example, and stuck to it to the minute. It was a complete gut which included removing a chimney so a wall could be moved. It took six weeks. The kitchen was sealed off from the rest of the house so no dust. We only had to leave for 2 nights when they redid the hardwood floors. It took lo ger to have the new roman shades made than to remodel the kitchen.
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I remodeled kitchen a few years ago. It involved a lot more than the kitchen and yes it took longer than promised, interestingly my contractor’s idea of when it was done in his mind vs mine are totally different. He’s a great guy BTW and I have used him on many other projects. We had a kitchen in the unfinished space all except one or two days, so even though we were using plywood for countertops at Thanksgiving it was all very doable. Definitely ask your contractor just what the plan is for a temporary kitchen.
Many eons ago I was without a working kitchen for much longer - using microwave and grill and washing dishes in a bathroom sink.
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We did 2 years ago. I thought I’d use the pressure cooker in the dining room, but used it less than I’d anticipated. Washing dishes was the biggest deterrent to cooking. Our reno was done in less than four weeks because we didn’t change the footprint and used stock cabinets.
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With our cabinet painting, supposedly we will be able to use our kitchen. But we probably won’t because we do need to move the fridge. Plus we don’t want to make a mess.
For a week to ten days…I think we will use our grill, and paper plates…and get carry out.
I did this years ago when the kiddos were 3-twins, and 7. It took months. In the warm months I cooked on the Coleman stove in the yard, which was actually quite efficient timewise, with a very fast boil, and we ate on the picnic table. Lots of pasta was eaten as well as salad. Later, inside was a bit more grim, with the slow cooker and microwave. We, or rather the ex was vegetarian, and we didn’t grill. Dishes were washed in the basement utility sink, which was a massive old granite double sink and really not a problem. The folks who bought the house from me were forced to remove that sink by some upstart young plumber, and I thought it a shame. But my mom visited and hurt her knee running up and down the basement stairs with the tubs of dishes.
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New York City kitchen. Four weeks from demo to finish. Biggest problem was storing the merchandise which took up space everywhere else in the apartment. Ate a ton fresh salad.
I haven’t remodeled a kitchen, but I did have a major HVAC repair (this was during the fall and winter). We spent two days in the house when the workers were here and decided that we had to leave. (This was during COVID–so my H was working from home.) The workers were nice guys, but it really felt like we didn’t have any privacy. We have a vacation place so we were able to open it up and go there. If we didn’t have that, I would have looked for a Air B&B rental (apartment/house with kitchen).
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