Posted in House Projects, Kitchen on Jun 13th, 2005
It’s been a while since I last posted. That lull I was talking about ended with a vengeance, and I haven’t had much time for anything besides work, house, and sleep. The good news is, I got the nook done.
Here’s the evolution.
This is what it looked like when I moved in. Minus the hanging plants. [...]
Posted in House Projects, Kitchen on May 2nd, 2005
Academically speaking, I know that the walls in my house aren’t straight. I mean, anything we’ve tried to do that requires straight walls– marking off stripes for the dining room, hanging cabinets, painting diamonds in the vestibule– has ended up a little crooked. So really, I should have known that laying the floor in the [...]
Posted in House Projects, Kitchen on Apr 14th, 2005
You want to know why I’m a firm believer in DIY? This is why.I have been working my butt off at the house. Plastering, painting, cutting 164 tiny slices of tile myself (the sonofabitch contractor-we’ll just call him Effing Contractor– told me it couldn’t be done my way because it was “too hard”- so then I had to [...]
Posted in House Projects, Kitchen on Mar 30th, 2005
The Life-Cycle of a Kitchen
I picture this post as a kind of time-lapse video where the flower grows up from a seed in the ground, wilts, and then dies. As far as my kitchen goes, this is the growing up and blooming part:
Mmmm, nothing says kitchen like flesh colored walls…
Mom, aka priming partner, helping me [...]
Posted in House Projects, Kitchen, Upstairs Bath on Jan 27th, 2005
There is no other way to put this. I broke my house.Let me explain the sequence of events here: 1.) Go to Vegas for my first vacation ever in 2 years. 2.) Come home four days later to a house that is 31 degrees Farenheit inside… there were ice sickle hanging from all faucets and [...]
"I wear a toolbelt and go barefoot the way other girls wear Prada and heels."
Recycling Cabinet
DIY Wine Rack
