our poor blog

we have pushed the poor blog by the wayside. Probabaly because we haven't really done anything big on the house since the last big kitchen push. And also, we got a wii. Wiiiiii!

Meanwhile, I've been adding to the list of "what's next":
Kitchen:
-add last toekick to cabinets
-install hardware to cabs, so we can finally do away with the painters tape pulls
-finish stripping wallpaper and skim coat the walls
-decide beadboard in kitchen, yay or nay?
-install pressed tin backsplash

Hall way:
-repair cracked plaster in hall ceilings and stair ceiling
-prime and paint foyer, hall and upstairs hall ceiling
-prime and paint foyer, hall and upstairs hall walls
-scrape, sand, prime and paint cruddy windowsills in hall
-strip(?) doors

Powder room:
-lose icky vanity and fixtures
-strip wallpaper and repair the walls
-replace or lose drop ceiling
-new fixtures, vanity, and add a bookcase
-new floor
-new door

Oh, and we discovered that our porch turns into a skating rink the moment snow and/or rain appears in the sky. Lovely. The most recent layer of paint is also flaking off like a little bastard, which means that guess what we get to do come spring!? That's right, scrape, sand, reprime and repaint the damn thing. Ehh, it's for the best, as I think the previous owners painted it with high gloss exterior paint, and not, you know, porch paint.