Thursday August 25, 2005

After a year and 29 days, I have decided that, a) no one is going to paint my kitchen cabinets for me, and b) Ty and the gang are not on their way to bulldoze my house for an Extreme Home Makeover.  Booo, Ty!  Boooo.

So I made a trip with Miss Prissy Pants to Home Depot for some paint.  Some of the cabinets are already painted,  and the rest were just not done–just abandoned halfway through, until now. 

I bought the house this way, blindly believing that I could just pull a Trading Spaces on the whole thing.  Within a week or so of closing, I reasoned, I’d get in there with a little elbow grease and paint those cabinets.  Not so.  There was a migraine-inducing neon pink bathroom that had to be kilz’d 4 times before I could start painting (no, seriously! observe the ugliness:)

texture and paint in a certain Princess’ room that could not be ignored, (sorry, no before shots)

and the little things like curtain rods and bathroom fixtures that took precedence.  Alas, my ‘minor’ kitchen painting is almost done. 
But we’re starting up Bible Study again over here and I’m all about the house looking nice for the kids.  Why, I don’t know.  Considering most of their rooms have piles of clothes (clean?  dirty?  dirty but I may wear it again…)  stacked up to 4 feet tall next to their empty laundry hampers, they haven’t seen their carpet or their math book in a week,  and there’s moldy pizza pockets rotting under their beds, but I digress.   I want the house as nice as possible.  This is where Gracie comes in .  Quite the painter really:

She helped me KILZ it all and then I put her down for a nap to paint.  She kept saying, “I like to kill the cabinets.  This is fun!”  LOL.  Yeah, fun.