My Husband, The Stud, Takes Out a Fridge

While trying to prepare our house to go on the market, we had a lot of "fun" little projects that needed to be done. Things like mulching, painting, caulking, planting, weeding, cleaning, organizing, fixing the malfunctioning garage door, fixing the malfunctioning toilet, replacing the non-working air conditioner, replacing the outdated appliances...

Unless little more than decorating is involved, home improvement projects are not on my list of favorite things to do. I'm even less thrilled when they don't go as planned...and of course they never do.

For example, when trying to replace our stove and refrigerator, we ran into a problem. A big problem. Literally. The old fridge was too big to fit through our doorways and was therefore stuck in our kitchen.

In the words of the encouraging Lowes delivery guy, "This fridge isn't going anywhere." Thank you for that.

Apparently someone had built cabinets after the fridge was in place, or something like that. Interesting predicament. So for a few days there it sat, looking ugly and daunting in the middle of our kitchen while we tried to figure out what to do with it.

And here's the solution my brave husband dared to attempt. (despite the many warnings of the dangers of freon)

Yes, that's our fridge in these pictures (half of it anyway)...though it's barely recognizable after Bryan got done with it. We could have tried to rip out our cabinets, but that didn't sound exciting enough for us. Actually, it just sounded a lot harder and messier. So instead, Bryan rented a saw and cut our fridge in half. For real. I have to say, it was pretty impressive. And no, we were not melted by freon in the process.

And there's our new refrigerator. Worth every bit of the effort it took to get it there. (right..?)

What I should have taken a picture of is the two pieces of our fridge sitting out on our front porch, waiting for the Lowes guy to come back and pick them up. Or me, six months pregnant and ridiculous looking, lugging the fridge halves out with Bryan. Hilarious. It was pretty ghetto looking, but at that point we didn't care one bit.