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Posted on 01/16/2006 6:56:15 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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When is your field trip? Do you want some Hobbit Hole knives to pass around?
Ugh!
Progress! (Inside cabinets) (I went a little overboard with the foam ;~D)
We ran outta paint. You can see what the uppers looked like before in the small cabinet over the sink.
We thought these metal cans were rather cool and kept them :~D
I think we pretty well got 'em covered the last time! It's the same guys!
Well that doesn't look so bad....
Wow! The kitchen looks brighter already. :-D
And that foam stuff looks like it would be easy to go overboard with. *laughing*
Looks cleaner... and looks like it ~can~ be cleaned.
I think you have done a GREAT job! The kitchen looks great!
Rosie, I tell ya...it's miraculous what a little bit of attention and some paint can do! We moved in to a house on a river that was absolutely trashed! Filthy dirty! No kidding, in the display of the ovens it was half full of dead roaches, I kid you not...and the stove had a grill...a dead mouse was in the grease that the previous tenants had just left in there when they finished cooking! It was the "Farm Manager's Home" and we lived on the farm. The house was practically a mansion, but was so nasty it was unbearable.
Well, we set to work on it and clearned it up so nice that my mom had Dad's retirement party there! It was hugh! It had a pantry the size of Matthew and Joshua's current room! Two ovens! Powder-blue carpeting! It even had a swimming pool.
But the farm worked Steve round the clock 7 days a week and paid him less than the upkeep of the house! We couldn't pay our electric bill! They treated their illegal immigrant workers better than Steve...a professional with a Hort Degree!
So we left that gorgeous gigantic house in the bend of the river with the peach orchard next door and moved to Sapulpa Oklahoma. We left that house in spotless order. And owing almost $300 on the electric bill, which we paid off little by little from Oklahoma.
In my mind sometimes I'm still walking the grounds around that house with Matthew...only 18 months old. He'd hold up his hands and try to get me to give him some of my coffee...he'd say "Hot soppy? Hot soppy?"
Heh heh.
Looks MUCH less dingy now, though it still needs more paint, and we're gonna put down contact paper in most cabinets to make it easier to keep clean.
I'm thinkin' of going stencil crazy in there, too - do something just about the counter, though I'm not sure what. Need to check out what's available, I guess.
Just get out your pens and calligraphy it to death. Looks like there's a lot of potential!
My mom has a ~thing~ for apple decorations in the kitchen.
I could see if she has stencils of them somewhere in the garage. She wanted to do that before deciding to go with wallpaper borders and a decorative tile backsplash (with apples already on them).
Paint daisies all over it! And a jalepeno pepper!
Well, we're heading back over now to do some more :~D
Daisies and apples and peppers, oh my! *smile*
Just grab a bunch of fruit and veggie stencils and go crazy!
~shrugs~
I'm not sure jalapenos fit with the climate here...
But they could be colorful!
Daisies would fit in well. But there are an awful lot of those in the place already.
Heh...yah, I second that...
Ohfertheluvva...
Makes me hungry for a salad, OT!
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