Monday, August 27, 2007

Home Improvements


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Originally uploaded by mewpaperarts.
Yeah, so you know HGTV? They're full of crap. It's nearly impossible...no, it IS impossible to complete any home improvement projects in two days or less. This heft project took us three full working weekends.

The kitchen was a horrendous shade of pickled wood before this...like a nasty pinkish tone. So in phase 1 of renovations we've painted and "distressed" the cabinets to give them that sassy Shabby Chic look.

As we were taking the doors off initially I mentioned, in passing, that it might be insightful of us to mark which doors came from where. But Dino, in his omnipotent confidence found that extranneous. Welllll...such lack of planning led to approximately 394 attempts at rehanging the doors in the right place. I'm no contractor, but once in a while I get a good idea.

Well, the hard part is over and now we have cabinets that we're too nervous about ruining to actually use. The Fantastic bottle is getting a lot of use as i go about chasing finger prints on the doors!

I'll keep you posted as phases 2 (a granite countertop later this month) and 3 (a pressed tin backsplash) progress.

5 comments:

fernfiddlehead said...

Your mom and I enjoy your blog!! Kitchen renos are the worst. Looks great though.

Marissa L. Swinghammer said...

Looks awesome! We had a hard enough just painting and putting up curtains with our place.

TrueMirage said...

it's true! HGTV is full of crap. it's like renovation porn. good luck with the next phases - this one turned out great.

Anonymous said...

WOW - YOU GUYS MUST HAVE GOTTEN UP REALLY EARLY ON THE WEEKENDS TO GET THIS BABY DONE!!! THAT IS A JOB WELL DONE - LOOKS GREAT IN PERSON!! KEEP UP THE GOOD TEAMWORK!! OXXO MA

MonkeyDogStudio said...

"Renovation porn." Ha! That's so true. Mew, you should see the wallpaper nightmare that I'm up against!