Before we bought this place, I remember staying up late at night wondering how in the world we were going to make the house habitable. Some of you may remember that our appraisal required us to complete a ton of work before we even owned the house, which, in hindsight, was a huge gamble. The biggest project was putting a new roof on the house, but we also had to put down flooring in the kitchen, bleach the hell out of the cabinets, pay for a structural engineer do an inspection and pay for a pest inspection. It was a frustrating process, but by the time we owned the house, we knew exactly what needed to be done and started immediately. The photo below is from the day we closed (look how tiny the kiddos are!). That horrible faux- stone paneling had to go first thing. We went through and sprayed every surface white. Swapping out the drawer pulls for Martha Stewart brass pulls from Home Depot was another easy, inexpensive change. We had planned to take out the green countertops, but I've come to really like the color and the quirkiness. The counters add a certain charm to the kitchen. I'm convinced that if we had nice, brand new countertops, they'd make the rest of the room look like complete crap. I have to tell myself things like that in order to keep myself from constantly feeling envious of all of the gorgeous kitchens out there (thanks, Pinterest). The height is great (it was previously used as a work bench) and it's perfectly functional, but I'm not a huge fan of how it looks. Some days I feel like we have enough old stuff in our house, if that makes any sense. I'm not sure what I'm looking for.. I think. Notice the spot above the stove in this photo. That strip of yellow is linoleum that had literally been thumb tacked to the studs in the wall (more about that in this post). Kanye West Defends Taylor Swift You get the idea, though. At some point the old electric stove caught on fire and sent me into hysterics. Thankfully, my parents had just installed a beautiful commercial- grade stove (dream!) in their kitchen, so they gave us their gas stove. Smith's pie tin artfully disguises a little dent in the wall. Those feathers on the window sill are actually carved wood feathers that I found at a friend's antique store. We put up these display wires to hold all of the drawings that come home from school. As you can see, it gets a bit cluttered, so we purge it about twice a month. That old fridge needs to be purged soon, too. After video of the elevator skirmish Monday, tabloids and gossip sites clamored to assign a motive to Solange’s violent outburst, with a popular theory. When you attend a Britney Spears tour (or her Piece Of Me residency in Las Vegas), you’re there for the spectacle: The tightly choreographed routines, the pop smash. If the celestial oddsmakers are right, North Americans will be treated to an impressive — and brand-new — meteor shower early on the morning of May 24th. Marsaili McGrath, Getty Images. In a series of Facebook posts that went up today (May 20), System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian opened a huge can of. Vaseline- lens aside, I think it's a vast improvement.. I don't feel queasy anymore.
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