Kitchen Re-Do

Ok, so I randomly decided to re-paint my kitchen this past weekend. If you have never lived with me, you may not know how I decide to change things up with furniture/decorating in a matter of a few minutes. (Lisa is probably the only person other than Kyle who has witnessed this since she shared an apartment with me at Harding).

I originally thought that this project would only take a couple of hours. Well, that was when I thought I could paint over the wallpaper, which I have heard you can do. I did paint over about 1/2 the wallpaper with primer when Paula came in to check on my progress. Needless to say, she told me that I needed to strip the wallpaper, which I wasn't happy to hear. However, I am SO THANKFUL for my mother-in-law's honesty because I am very happy with the finished product! So Paula ended up staying to help me strip wallpaper, mainly because I think she felt sorry for me. Even Kyle helped strip. In my opinion, Kyle & Paula are excellent strippers, wall-paper strippers, that is! We ended up stripping 2 layers to get to the drywall.

Amanda & Paula both were lifesavers at helping me get the kitchen painted on MOnday. Overall the project that was supposed to take 4 hours in my mind took 16!

What did Kyle do for a weekend project? Well, other than help me, he filled in the rocks/fire pit area in our back yard with sod...it looks great! I think his project was more of what should be considered a "weekend" project!

I took pics of the kitchen, but I think most of you have seen them, especially if you have facebook, which is where I am putting most of my pics now. It is much easier to upload them there than blogger. I am kind of annoyed with the way blogger posts pics at the moment...I guess that's what you get for free!