I am trying to sell my house, and I haven't gotten many bites on it yet. Actually, we have had a few people come look at it, but none have offered anything. I think it is too "old" looking. So, we started working on the kitchen this week.
It rained a lot last weekend and was supposed to throughout this week, so DH said he could come down and help me...actually, he did most of the work on the house while I was at work and when I got home, I helped. We got down here Monday night and got all the cabinets done today. I have a full wall of cabinets and we pulled all of the fronts down, sanded, painted, changed the hinges and cleaned up the handles...they were nice looking, but needed to be polished.
Here are some before pictures:
Here are some after:
The door that was hiding the hot water heater was so greasy and gross (it is beside the stove) that we decided I will just make a curtain or something to cover it up. I am going to make curtains for the windows, so I'll just get some extra material and figure out a way to hang it.
Notice the new light fixture, too!
I have read that you can paint the ceramic back splash, so I am going to paint that the same color as the walls when I do them. I'm going for neutral colors, so some kind of beige.
Still need to paint the window sills and texture and paint the walls. But, those are smaller projects compared to this monster row of cabinets.
We put a ceiling fan in our bedroom, and I had put the little weights on the end to balance it, and the weights came flying off and we heard them land, but couldn't find them. So, I super glued some pennies to the top of the blade that needed it! I'll have to add $.04 to the cost of the remodel 
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In other news, I transfered the money from one 0% interest credit card that was due in July to another one that is due in December. I didn't know when that transfer would occur, so I accidentally overpaid. I requested the refund today from AmEx, for $284. They said it would take 7-10 days. If I don't get it by then, I'll need to call them.
I also need to keep checking the bank of america site to know when the first payment is due for the new card.
working on the kitchen
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