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Paint on Vinyl Flooring

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May 2011
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Clean floorWhen I moved into my condo there were paint drips all over the vinyl floors. I tried all kinds of things to get the paint off from using a dull blade from a utility knife to one of those scrubbing sponges. Nothing was working. I finally wet the spots and used a metal spatula to remove the paint. It worked really well.

The floor has grooves in it so I had to use a small screwdriver to get the paint out of the grooves. My floor looks so much better now. Now I don’t cringe when I walk into my kitchen.

I tried to do the same thing in the bathroom but I need to find a plan B for that room because the flooring has a different makeup than the kitchen floor and the paint just won’t come off. I even tried nail polish remover (in a hidden area) but that just started removing the finish of the floor… (oops!!!).

I’ll get it all cleaned up eventually. It will just be a case of trial and error in the bathroom.

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Kitchen Update

02
Jan 2011
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I would love to be able to update this kitchen. It has been sort of updated before but still needs a lot of work. The kitchen needs new appliances and glass mosaic tiles as a back splash would be nice.

The counter tops are a laminate with a woodgrain pattern and I would love to have granite. The woodgrain just looks so dated. The stove is really old too and doesn’t even have a clock or timer on it… oh and it’s electric. I’d rather have gas. I love cooking on a gas stove better than electric.

The floors are so old and the tiles weren’t put down by someone who knew what they were doing. The lines between the tiles don’t even line up right. It looks terrible. The bathroom floor is the same way. Dirt and stuff get stuck in the deep designs.

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Christmas decorating

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Dec 2010
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I’m living in a condo again and I’ve been seeing people unloading Christmas decorations from their cars. I’m guessing they are keeping their decorations in the steel buildings which is a storage facility down the street. These condos don’t come with a whole lot of storage space.

My bedroom closet is full, which is the largest closet in the place. I’m surprised at the kitchen though.. there is more cabinets and storage than I thought it would have.. which makes me happy. There are 3 nice deep drawers and one we are using as a spice drawer. We are able to store the spices upright in the drawer because it’s so deep. We use another one of the drawers to put our boxes of trash bags and storage bags in. The other is used for our silverware, etc.

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Painting

21
Sep 2010
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We’ve been working on this house trying to get it into shape to be sold. It’s not our house. It belongs to my sister-in-law and she just put it on the market. If I were to walk into it in the condition it was in I would have turned around and walked out again. The walls looked horrible and were in bad need of a paint job.

That’s what Andi and I have been doing lately. The living room, kitchen, family room, bathrooms, upstairs hallway and 1 bedroom have been painted mostly by Andi. This week I’ve been working on my bedroom. I got 3 walls painted before I ran out of paint and most of the trim done. We still have to get more paint to finish my room and the last bedroom, which is a bright pepto bismol pink! We need to get more ceiling paint too to finish the upstairs hallway, my bedroom and the pink room. Then we should be finished with the painting.

Andi also painted the kitchen cabinets and Drew painted the hardware for the cabinets and the exhaust hood for the range. Everything is starting to looks so much better.

Now to get sis-in-law here to go through all of the stuff she left here when she moved. There are boxes and boxes of stuff all over the place.

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What I look for in a kitchen

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Aug 2009
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black-countertop-kitchen-homeIf we ever get a house of our own again; this is what I want to have in a new kitchen:

1. Black granite counter tops
2. Stainless steel appliances
3. A backsplash covered in metal tiles
4. An easy to maintain floor (and not cheesy looking)
5. Oak or Maple cabinets with glass fronts on some of the doors
6. Under cabinet lighting
7. A gas stove with a waist-high broiler
8. A pantry
9. A separate closet for mops, brooms and cleaners
10. A built in cutting board
11. Lots of drawer space
12. A center island with room for seating

I watch way too many home improvement shows and want just about everything they do on those shows. The picture above is almost exactly what I want except I want the seating at a center island.

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I tricked Kody

23
Jun 2008
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I had 3 of my grandkids here overnight on Saturday. For dinner I made cheeseburgers and fries for dinner. The youngest one, Kody, saw a small jar on the counter that came out of the box of NASCAR burgers and asked what it was. It was a jar of seasoning and Kody said he didn’t want that on his burger. I told him ok and he left the kitchen. I proceeded to put the seasoning on all of the burgers. As they were eating and Kody was almost done with his burger I asked him how it was. He told me it was yummy. I then told him that it had the seasoning on it that he said he didn’t want. The look on his face was priceless. He did finish the cheeseburger… with a smile.

We all ate so much that night that all of us should have hopped on a treadmill to work it all off! We all had a great time and I was so happy to see them. I’ve really missed those little buggers.

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