The first hurdle was getting rid of this chandelier lamp hanging in the breakfast nook.
I had an eye on this particular one from Pier 1 but couldn't get it. Then I found it last year in California on clearance for $27! I really like how it turned out.
We still had the busy wallpaper problem AND border!
Just a few weeks after Levi was born, Jan and Alan came to visit. Jan asked me what she could do to help. I said, "Feel like pulling off wall paper?" (I think it was a late nesting instinct :)
So I put Levi in a sling and away I went. Andrew had a huge paper to write, but he took some time to help with this step.
This was a huge endeavor (and people always say this is the easy way to fix up a house!). The layers of paint underneath the wallpaper were bubbling. We ended up scraping and using a heat gun to take some of the old paint off. A month or 2 ago we finally painted the walls. Then this weekend I decided it was time to install the new kitchen faucet. As you can see, the old one was both rusting and growing things...
Thank you, Andrew, for working hard on this! I love the new one!
Last, hang a few pictures and tada:
6 comments:
It looks great! The paint sure updated the look of your cabinets too. Major kudos to you for doing that a few weeks post-partum! Don't think I would have had the energy!
You did a great job! I can't believe how quickly you got it done!
It looks absolutely wonderful! I'm sure that it just FEELS so good to have less going on! What shall we do next time?? :)
Wow! What a difference! It looks great! Good job, guys!
If only we could update the kitchen to include a nice, yellow, floral-print wall-paper.
Oh, Andrew, you are incorrigible! (is that how you spell it?). By the way, that faucet looks FINE! I am really impressed that you did that! Good job, Andrew!
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