renovations, phase II

I decided to do paint my bathroom next, since it was small enough to tackle in one day, didn't involve a huge amount of furniture moving, and didn't require any new sheetrock (as my living room now does.)

I took a chance and bought the color "American Blue" - it only took one quart - without even bringing home a sample! I have to say, it turned out pretty good. Definitely better than the chipping dirty white paint that preceded it. Before:

And after:

facelift for my kitchen

Right before I left for Hawaii, my landlord finally got around to fixing my kitchen floor. It had obviously been rotting out underneath the linoleum for quite some time. The clincher was when I saw soap bubbles coming out between the wall and the floor! They tore a huge hole in both the floor and the wall, and replaced pipes, rebuilt the floor, etc. When I got home from my trip it was almost done, but it was left looking like this:

Unfinished, flithy walls, tons of dust everywhere, a lumpy-bumpy concrete floor with a ratty piece of linoleum simply laying on it, no baseboards. To add insult to injury, when I called my landlord asking when I was going to have a real floor, he started threatening to not renew my lease! WTF?!

Anyway, after much discussion about how I was not asking for anything unreasonable, he agreed to get a professional in to do the floor, and I offered to finish the walls. Finally, at about midnight last night, I finished paining, and was able to move my stuff back into the kitchen:

Hooray! It's hard to see the exact color in the photos, but the walls are "pale tangerine". I'm so happy with it, I just might tackle my living room next...