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.
posted by jen @ 1:04 PM
6 Comments:
Everything looks great! This is my first visit to your blog and I am very impressed with all that you guys have accomplished thus far.
I'm curious about your source for the pressed tin backsplash? We tried that, but for some reason the tin my husband ordered came in only one width (depth? whatever, the shorter measurement) and once it got here it was an unholy bitch to cut AND we couldn't figure out how to make it die cleanly into the cabinets. So we ditched the idea, went with a 3" backsplash of maple butcher block to match our counters, and called it a day.
Curious what you found that will actually install well?
Thanks! We have a couple of places we're looking at for the tin, classicceilings.com and americantinceilings.com are the two we're looking at at the moment.
I'm a little worried about the cutting part, but since there's a small gap between the cabs and the wall, we should be ok with the alignment. I hope! We're also going to finish it out with some of the smaller tin moldings (maybe a cove?) against the counters and the cabs. We'll see....
My old house had a painted porch, which was chipping off. So I sanded and used porch paint. And the steps were still chipping the next spring, after a few episodes of snow shoveling. It's always a battle!
let me know if you need any strongarms for the porch redo. I am a big fan of cathartic scraping, sanding, and painting. and while I may not be the perfectionist you are, ms. incredible-use-of-a-stencil-for-wall-paint-applications, I am still kind of picky when it comes to paint.
felicia--oh, tell me about it! I am fully prepared to do something like this every year. But my goodness, the extent of the chipping and peeling (even before the snows and shoveling!!) is so bad.
Kari--you know that you're probably one of the only other people I'd trust to do the painting, especially after seeing your gorg apartment! I may very well hit you up on the offer of the scraping etc.--cartharis is good!
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