We're so close.... and yet so far away.... but so damn close.

Remember those pesky home renovations that I've been talking about for the last few months? Well, they're still in full effect and at this point, I may in fact pull my hair out by the roots.

The only benefit of living in a house that you're also doing work in is the fact that you can break when you want to and shower whenever you need to. (Unless of course, you're remodeling the bathroom.... which we're not doing right now TFG!!) The pains in the asses outweigh the good, but then again, we do what we can and leave the rest for another day.

With all of that being said, this weekend was rather productive.

We finally finished painting our kitchen (with the exception of the ceiling), got the backsplash completed (and before you ask, yes we used tiny tile samples and it's weird, but that's what we were going for), cleaned off the top of our cabinets and put shelf liner on the top (to make it easier to clean, because we have metal cabinets and they are a bitch to scrub clean once there's that much "gunk"), got half of our cabinets painted, and I repainted one living room wall and its trim.

Our house is weird and dark, but also colorful and completely insane to the point no one else would want it, but that's what we're going for. We didn't want something "normal" we wanted something "us." And oh man, is that what we're getting.

The cabinets are silver, blue, brown, and white. The backsplash is about every color you could think of. Our floor is two-toned with red and dark brown, and our walls are navy blue. All the trim is charcoal, and the ceiling, once we get around to it, will be black. In other words, there's alot going on.

And that's just our kitchen.

We also cleaned off the top of the cabinets where we have a few cookie jars (Momma's), odd knick-knacks, and old liquor bottles and threw away the liquor bottles that we had duplicate (or more) of. You know what I learned from this experience? We may in fact have a drinking problem. But, in the words of Dennis Reynolds, what do you do with that kind of information? You bury it way deep down and keep an eye on it.

Our living room is blue-grey and green with charcoal trim and it also has a black ceiling. Well, technically right now one wall is also red, but I'll be painting that when I get off of work today.

The living room is also our bedroom and that in and of itself is weird, but we don't care. Like I said, we go with what we like/want and it all works for us just the way we like it.

If you're wondering why it's the sudden surge of getting all of this done, it's because D would like to have it completed (at least the majority of it) by the time his mom and nephew come to visit.... I pick them up at the airport on Thursday night. Yeah, so we officially have three and a half days to finish painting the living room (three walls), finish the trim work, paint the kitchen ceiling (and touch up the living room), and paint the remaining cabinets. Oh, and hang the spice rack that Devon built.... and finish staining/clear coating the one piece of kitchen floor and the remaining counter. And, all of this is being done after we get off of work, so you know, fun times. We also need to clean the back bedroom and the rest of the house to get it all ready for company (we don't have company often, so it throws me off when we do), and I need to do laundry.

On the bright side, since his mom and nephew are coming for a visit, not only is the never-ending battle of redecorating/ renovating that's been driving me crazy being accomplished, but I'm also off on Friday (three day weekend!)

So, you know, there's that. *silver-lining*