i went a little bit crazy. . .

. . . and started demo-ing our kitchen today during Genevieve’s nap. I have been saying for a year I am going to tackle the kitchen this summer. . . and we are well into August now. . . so if I am going to hold true to my word I better get started. Wasn’t planing on spending my day doing this. . . I just got an urge to tear our the fugly faux tile on the walls and went for it.

To refresh your memory. . . here is a before featuring said faux tile:

This picture is really old and wasn’t taken for the purpose of showing off the ’tile’ that is really like wood paneling only looks like tile (I mean, seriously, what were they thinking?).

Here is the ’tile’ in it’s other location in the kitchen:

And here is what it looked like after I used my husband’s handy dandy crow bar to say buh bye to the what-were-they-thinking?!?-tile.

And now you know why it has taken us 2+ years to address this situation. What lies beneath the tile is a hot mess people. That is the glue (yes I said they used glue) they used to put up the tile with what I am sure is a gazillion layers of wallpaper underneath. Sigh. So I will be spending the rest of this week taking down wallpaper during nap time. I’ll keep you posted. . .

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Today I am thankful for deep conversations.