In the last couple weeks we have been slowly coming back up to speed in the home improvement arena as I have started to feel better. We have been trying to take it little bits at a time instead of biting off any big projects we might not be able to finish. One of those smallish projects we had been putting off was the kitchen lighting situation.

When we redid the whole ceiling in the house we had installed a temporary work light in the kitchen which hung precariously off its wires so that the texture could be put up. Turns out life gets crazy sometimes and what you think will be there for a few weeks maybe a few months can end up sticking around for a few years.

Yup that bad boy had been our only light source in the kitchen this whole time. A few weeks ago when one of the light bulbs burned out we really started realizing it was bad.

You might remember we were talking about doing a track lighting setup in the kitchen. Turns out it was going to be pretty expensive and it seemed like a daunting task with my energy level.

The problem was that our light in the kitchen was massively off centered in the room (why? who knows….). So simply swapping it out wasn’t going to work. But I still

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What’s a girl to do when she has a box of off colored vinyl self stick tiles and a nasty plywood floored laundry room?

Floor the heck out out of it that’s what.

This room has been driving me bonkers for a long time. Like from the moment I first laid eyes on it.

And it’s the neglect room in the house because it needs to be ripped off the house and rebuilt entirely to do it right. When we moved in there were weird remnant pieces of drywall all over the walls which we ended up just removing since we would never ever dream of texturing over such a disaster. As such the only real things that have happened in this room are the addition of a washer and dryer, shelves and a cat door.

But this is our entrance from the backyard as well as the animal zone so it gets DIRTY.

Ugh. Soon it will be blocked off from the house with a sliding glass door so that the bugs that come in through all the unfinished crevices everywhere in this room can stay in their room and we can stay in ours. Think I’m joking?

Cockroaches in your hair in the morning is not such a great wakeup call. Just saying.

If you haven’t had a chance to check out the house tour, you might not know that our bedroom is actually connected to the utility room.

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