First Post!

I decided to start a home redecorating blog, since that's my main interest these days. Who knows if anyone will read it, but I'll be glad to have it!

Let me start at the beginning, I'm Mandy, I live in Oklahoma and I have a musician husband and two gorgeous daughters! I am photographer and domestic diva!

We moved into our house almost 5 years ago. My husband and I had been married for about a year or so and had lived in a townhouse for the first year of marriage. That townhouse was an interesting experience. It kept flooding, had mice and we lived two doors down from someone that I was sure was stalking me! Anyway, we were so glad to move out and buy our own home. Here's a picture of us on moving day:

The house was built in 1976 and it around 1400 sq. ft. with three bedrooms and two baths. Here's some of the before pictures of the kitchen:

I actually took this before we even owned the house so everything in it belongs to the previous owner. I knew I would have to paint the cabinets and get rid of that laminate flooring. Also, I don't know if you can tell, but the flooring in the utility is a different kind of laminate. Gross. The countertops are white laminate with gold flecks. Don't gold flecks just make your hear skip a beat? Nope? Me either.

Here's a shot of my hubs getting rid of the nasty floor. It was a tough job, that stuff was really stuck on good! As you can see I had already painted the walls a taupe color called Sauteed Mushroom and had already painted most of the cabinets. I think that one cabinet door below the sink was missing for months.

Here's a picture of the finished cabinets. Better than all the dark wood, but then I started thinking that it was too much white. So I looked online at some inexpensive backsplash ideas. Someone had put wallpaper up over laminate and glued it on and I thought that sounded cheap and easy!

Here's how the wallpaper backsplash looks. Much better in my opinion! I got the wallpaper that looks like tile so it's kind of an optical illusion!

Here's how the sink area looks after the backsplash was applied.

Kitchen redo, to be continued!