As you can see, we gutted the kitchen all the way to the sub-floor. We saved all the cabinets for later use. The guy who built the house did some strange things like running a lot of wire up through one part of the wall. We didn't move any of the wires and left all of that in place.

In the last picture, you can see we removed that small wall in the dining room and opened up the kitchen to the dining room so the place isn't a cave.

We laid new sub-flooring and then used ten bags of floor leveler to get the floor straight and then laid 1/4" louwan (sp) plywood as a suitable substrate for hardwood flooring. We found out later that we can't lay tile over the plywood because the plywood absorbs the glue and delaminates.