November 30, 2007
All In All It's Just Another Brick-Colored Wall
Through the magic of the photograph, I bring you Before and After images of my kitchen wall!
Why just one wall? you ask? Because the rest of the kitchen really isn't worth looking at. One wall is all stove and fridge and microwave; one is all sink and cabinets and counters; and one is just doors to the dining room, living room and hallway to the bedrooms.
Seriously, our kitchen is retarded. We have a huge Sub-Zero fridge, two ovens and a stove with industrial grade burners -- all here when we moved in. So clearly, the previous owners were serious cooks. BUT. We have about four and a half inches of counter space. The square footage of the kitchen is really big... but there's no damn counter space. I hate our kitchen.
Adding to my hatred, for quite some time, was this:
Note the outdated wallpaper and ginormous dog kennell. What you can't see is the place behind the table where the dogs ate away the wallpaper... and some of the wall. Although, if you look closely, you can see where they did the same thing by the back door.
And what the hell is with that little half-wall? Seriously! Why put up a half wall if you're not going to put in a COUNTER TOP?!?!
Thanks to the magic of unemployment, Husband transformed our once-drab wall into this!
Yes, that's red gingham wallpaper. Husband almost went blind putting it up. I love it so much, I can't even tell you.
Of course, we don't have chairs, yet. Stella has started gnawing the woodwork around her favorite window at the front of the house, so we're certainly not going to invest money into chairs just yet.
Hmmm, I wonder if I could swap Stella for the chairs? On Craiglist, perhaps?
Dog owner seeks to swap black lab for 4 kitchen chairs. Dog has all shots. No weirdos.