So, there are so many things that I want to do in my house and I have serious house ADD and haven’t finished one room yet. I keep starting projects in a room and then think of something else and start it too. Rooms I have started on: Hall bathroom, extra room, Sophie’s room, hall, great room, my room. Rooms that have been “finished” = ZERO! NADA! ZILCH! A very good friend once said “you can never really finish a house because when you do – you have to sell it” true wisdom. I sat down and started a list of things I would like to do. It includes little things like tearing down the fireplace that takes up the corner and extends on to either side of the walls. It would be cool just to have it on that corner wall. Like I said – little things 
The laundry room alcove thingy is right next to the french doors in my great room. I needed curtains to cover the french doors and that alcove kinda posed a problem. There are no doors on it and you can’t hang curtains above it because it butts up against the corner of the wall. Also, it would be weird trying to hang curtains above both the french doors and the laundry room.
BUT, Ikea came to the rescue. They have curtain rods that go around corners so I could hang it over both and it still looks cool! I <3 Ikea. I do have to say that these said curtain rods DO NOT come with screws. Not even Ikea type screws. No. Of course I didn’t look to see if they had them. I assumed they would have those nice alan wrenches they include in every piece that you buy. YES, every piece. I needed 8 rod holders so now I am the proud owner of 8 alan wrenches that only fit 1 little screwy type thingymabobber. Need one? So after we put up 4 rod holders we realized that the screws we bought were the wrong type. The package said “Due to all wall types being different we do not include screws and leave that to the buyer’s discretion.” O_o So I used my discretion and bought the type for my wall. But, they were not up to par with what Ikea thought I would choose I guess. Kinda reminded me of when I was 8 and my mom said “You can choose ballet or piano.” Little sweet 8-year-old me: “OH! Piano!!” Mom: “Nope, ballet.” What??! So, after another trip to the hardware store we got them all up. I hung them high to give the illusion of grandeur in my little 70′s ranch home. I think they turned out quite nice!
Onto the kitchen! I painted the entire kitchen a nice Steamed Milk color and it really brightens the place up. Like I said earlier – I can’t replace the cabinets yet. I decided to take the doors off the upper cabinets and stain the cabinets a dark cherry or walnut. I plan on adding a little molding at the top of the cabinets and shelf bracket type things at the bottom so they will look like built in open shelving. I’ll post more as I get them done. For now the doors are off and the walls of the kitchen are painted. That was a lot of work for one weekend. This weekend I’ll paint the backs of the cabinets and stain the wood.
So far so good!! Can’t wait to work on it some more I am falling in love with my little house.
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