Home Improvement, con't...

Never wanting to sit still, we (Ok, "I", Adam loves sitting still...) had new countertops installed this week, I did some MAJOR closet cleaning, and I painted two bathrooms...Here are a few Before/After shots of the kitchen. The counters are Silestone and such a KILLER deal that we really couldn't pass it up. They were just installed yesterday and Adam is still working on the sink/disposal hook-up, so we're dealing with no kitchen sink, but it's fine for a couple of days. The counters look very nice and upgrade the kitchen from the counters that I despised before. Now, of course, the 10 year old white appliances look dingy and outdated, but we'll get to them in a few months. Since they actually work fine, there's no real reason to upgrade that yet. Elise keeps looking at them and saying, "oooohh...so cool, mommy". She also loves the "dark purple" (it's periwinkle really, but that's fine, she's 2, bathrooms. It was a fun project to work on during naptimes all week. And, I don't like doing nothing...
BEFORE...they were a dingy khaki in color...

DURING...we saved a few hundred bucks by doing the demolition ourselves of the old stuff...that's the fun part, right!?


We did the Demo right before Trash Day and snuck the WAY OVERSTUFFED, Clampett-lookin' trashcans out the curb after dark so the neighbors wouldn't laugh at us...although our neighbors would love it. They're so great.
Now, AFTER...it's called "Ebony Pearl" and it's a gray/black with lots of variation of specks of gray/black/a few white....


Here's the upstairs Guest bathroom/ kids bathroom. It was a hideous faux-finish/sponge paint disaster with a floral wallpaper border left by previous owners...now, I love it.

P.S. In the midst of all this craziness and more, Elise is still being a Superstar with potty-training! 10 days and only a couple minor accidents! YAY!