This probably isn't the most wise way to renovate your kitchen, but last Saturday darlingest husband and I started ripping out the tile in our kitchen. As you can see from the "before" picture, it covers most of the room -- like 5' high! Kinda like a grungy operating room. Oh, really not a nice description...
So, I had this plan that the tiles would come off ever so gently, and maybe we'd put up some cottage-y beadboard moulding up and it would all be a piece of cake -- like in one of those DIY shows. Not so fast. A few tiles came off ok, but then others came off with huge chunks of plaster -- you could still see the horse hair mixed in from 100 years ago. And it became obvious we were taking it down to the lathe...
We were going to try to do the renovation in stages to save $$, but we're finding out that's kind of impossible. We thought we could wait to replace the yicky cooktop and doll-size oven, but we realized we'd have to take it out now to be able to finish the wall...
Here's a cool surprise, though... When we took out the base cabinet we found this groovy old wallpaper (yes, I'm a sucker for old wallpaper) and a very cool chrome tile backsplash, albeit caked in old adhesive. There's a signature from the same wallpaper guy who put the wallpaper in Griffin's room -- this one is dated 1948 -- right after the last owners bought the house. I think it's funny I put in a backsplash just like this in my old kitchen, and I was thinking of something similar for this one. You know I'm going to do whatever it takes to see if I can get that glue off...
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I predict this kitchen will be the envy of the neighborhood within weeks.
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