kitchen painting done!

And it only took me, what, nine months? The whole kitchen had to be scrubbed down several times and entirely primed. Thank god for Kilz. I had to scrape yet another coat of scum off the ceiling and do more patching and smoothing and cursing for three days this week. Then, I moved out the refrigerator and had to deal with the crap job of mudding the contractor did, scrape off some PO goo on a cabinet that I had missed earlier, and wipe down the oil slick that is still present on the walls near the stove. The spaghetti/soy soyce explosion is long gone, but the oil remains. Sigh.


But it's done. Done, I tell you. The second picture is the 'before' shot, complete with apple border. It doesn't look nearly as bad as it was. The light is too good, like the high school pictures of the ugly girls that were fuzzed over for a romantic feel, they insisted, but it was just really for the pitted skin and mousy hair. You're just going to have to believe me.

Now we just need our chimney hood, a new window over the sink, and a new dishwasher and refrigerator. Donations are being accepted.