Days 5-8

Well, not much happened during the week as we were just too tired after work to then work on the kitchen.
<----------------is the hardwood floor that Randy did an awesome job at cutting out.

And yes...the picture of the washer and dryer w/the drumset is my current kitchen. But we started working again this past Friday and worked consistently through Sunday evening. We did a lot! Let's see what I can remember...

Friday during the day and into the evening, Randy worked on wall patches, took off some tile, went shopping for some supplies, experimented with wall texture and some other stuff that I'm too tired to remember at the moment.

Saturday we took another trip to Lowe's to get more stuff. We really did a lot of work. Randy finished pulling up the hardwood floors where we are extending the kitchen. We prepped the walls by using joint compound to even everything out. We did lots of sanding, got some drywall patches fixed, some more sanding, scraping and overall prep of the walls. That night we textured the walls. We used a hopper (new word for me-my how my vocabulary is increasing!) and boy did it come out crazy! Now, this was the first time either of us have done it so we had NO basis for comparison, but we think it turned out pretty good. I think our initial thought was to do a knockdown texture, but we ended up with a LOT of product on the wall...so I'm not sure what you would call what we ended up with, but it works! I think we finished up around 10:30 p.m.

Sunday we went out to breakfast because, well um...we don't have a kitchen and cereal is getting old. Then back to Lowe's to get some paint, primer and a sprayer to use for paint. We've never used one of these either, but thought it might be easier..um NOT. Apparently, it was pretty slow in the application. So our lesson we learned was just paint the old fashioned way with the rollers, works much better. We spent the rest of the day priming the walls and ceiling of the kitchen. Then Randy painted the ceiling (2 coats) and the line of demarcation where the cabinets were attached to the ceiling are gone! You'd never even know there were cabinets up there. Then after we were done with that we remembered that we need to still paint the laundry room. So we took down the cabinet and cleaned the walls up. So our walls are primed and ready for paint. Hopefully we will get that done this week sometime.

And now for our current dilemma...our fridge is white and the rest of our appliances are black. The fridge is fairly new and works great...but c'mon...it will not look pretty!! So I've seen on the home shows where the fridge is spray painted but Randy shut that one down. So I think we are on the hunt for a new fridge too and would like to let you know that we are open to donations so that we can buy this fridge...


Fridge