if you don't understand the title to this post, let me elaborate a little bit. pretty much if it hasn't been RE-done or you plan on RE-doing it, it's DISGUSTING and OLD. this house was really in good shape when Jon bought it 3 1/2 years ago, compared to the other houses in the same price range and age. and we have done some amazing things to it if i may say so myself (HAHA ok so JON has done most of it...) but there are still SO many things i'd like to accomplish in the near future.. HOPEFULLY before this baby makes it's debut!! but sometimes i look at stuff that still needs to be RE-done & wonder how i live amongst the grossness.
one thing i've been bugging jon about ever since we met is the cupboard underneath the kitchen sink. when he first moved in & we were first dating, the doors wouldn't even stay shut. so after a while, he fixed that. then there was a big gap between the countertop and the top of the cabinet door. so after a while, he screwed a piece of wood there, but didn't paint it. and i have been putting up with the rest of it since then.
well it was all like rotted out & sickening underneath there & i hated cleaning even more than normal because i didn't even want to look under there to get the cleaning supplies out. i had a tupperware thing the was about 4 inches tall and 3 feet wide (which was meant for storing things under a bed or whatever) and that kinda protected the supplies from the ickiness & creatures, but it was still disgusting.
so jon FINALLY got sick of my whining and nagging & cleaned it out & put fresh wood & paint over the sickness & i feel like it's a whole new kitchen!!! here's a recap:
here's the sick beginning, after he'd pulled out a layer of some weird lining.
vacuuming out all the cucka stuff under there. believe it or not, the wood isn't rotted, it just looks sick.
all vacuumed out!! you can see the top piece of wood i mentioned that never got painted...
the fresh layer of new wood!!
when you're working under the sink, this just seems to happen!!
here's the "back splash" to cover up the rest of the cucka rotten stuff. the tank is for our filtered water by the way. jon hates that whole set up, but would you like to drink water out of 80 year old pipes??
i forgot to get a picture of it all painted before i put all my supplies back in there! organized and everything!!
maybe you can't really tell, but i put down a layer of that rubbery cabinet lining stuff, just to make it a little more protected!
I'm so so so excited about this!! i know it's still kinda ghetto but it's a million times better than it was!!! thanks honey! we've also been working on our basement, since we'll have to move down there once the baby comes. we only have one bedroom on the main floor & two in the basement. so we'll be flipping our house upside down so this babe can have it's own little bungalow!!! we're doing a poor-man's finish on the basement (which was on my list of "how do i live in this grossness??" UNTIL NOW!!) it also looks a million times better than it did even a few weeks ago!! i forgot to take before pictures, so i don't think you can really appreciate it unless you saw it before. my brother used to call it the "texas chainsaw massacre basement". yeah it was pretty scary. very dungeon-like. haha
Anyway, sorry this is a mega post, but i've been pretty boring with this blog lately & i needed to catch up!! We are headed to St. George today for Thanksgiving!! Then Monday is our 2 YEAR anniversary!!! & Tuesday we find out whether this babe is a boy or girl!!!!!! woooo hooooo!! so the next week will be super duper fun & exciting & i'll try to keep you all updated!!! i'm also going to start training the girl that's taking my place at Wolford's next week, so i'll be super busy but i'll for sure post the pictures of our BABY GIRL or BABY BOY!!!
