Can you guess what this is a picture of? Yum! It’s frosting! Delicious, creamy chocolatey peanut buttery frosting… right? Wrong. It’s the poorly conceived/executed DIY idea of the previous owners. And a major pain in the rear to fix. Thank goodness they only did this texture in one of the bedrooms (and only on two… [Read More]
MORE Ceiling Stuff
Oh, you’re still here? That’s so sweet of you. Thank you for following the ups and downs of Operation: No More Popcorn – my Sisyphean task of scraping all the popcorn ceilings, spackling/mudding, sanding, and painting and priming the entire house. Boredom, at this point, would be understandable. Indifference, anticipated. But if you’re still reading,… [Read More]
A Happy Pantry: Surprise Yellow Door
That’s what I think every time I see my pantry now. Remember that I just cleaned years of grime and gunk off the shelves/walls/door: And hinted that I had a fun plan up my sleeve for the pantry… Can you guess what it was? Surprise! Yellow pantry door! Bryan calls it “school bus”… [Read More]
Kitchen Updates
I have been busy busy busy since getting home from vacation! No time for vacation blues (that mopey feeling where life at home is dull and boring compared to everything you did on vacay) – I’ve jumped into summer with both feet. Still working on the ceilings. That’s old news. When it’s new news, I’ll… [Read More]
Kids, Don’t Try This At Home [Unless You Hate Yourself And Have A Death Wish]
Subtitle: mudding, sanding and priming a ceiling. I didn’t take any pictures of the mudding and sanding process, because a mudded and sanded ceiling looks just about the same as a ceiling recently scraped clean of popcorn, but it sure is a heck of a lot of work to achieve no visible difference! DAY 1:… [Read More]