{"id":5459,"date":"2014-11-24T08:43:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T13:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2014-11-04T11:03:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T16:03:57","slug":"the-ugliest-spot-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/11\/24\/the-ugliest-spot-in-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The ugliest spot in the house"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEvery house has them: those rooms that need sprucing, the hole that needs patching.\u00a0 Well, after we finally painted the pokey hallway, my kitchen became the ugliest spot in the house.\u00a0 It’s visible from so many places in the house, it’s just too hard to ignore.<\/p>\n

And it’s not that it was that horrible.\u00a0 The no frills black cabinets and grey laminate counter tops are actually in really really good shape and better quality than I had in my last few apartments.\u00a0 It took some time for me to warm up to it, but I no longer want to just rip everything out. I can deal with the counter being unlevel.<\/p>\n

What was bad about it:\u00a0 paint splatters around the sink and the melted butter yellow paint splotches on the blue-grey walls, holes in the drywall from an open shelf pantry we removed on the opposite wall, and a lot of dirty.\u00a0 The paint splatters and most of the dirty just took a lot of cleaning, but the dirt smudges just wouldn’t budge off the mat finish blue grey paint.\u00a0 I didn’t like the color anyway.<\/p>\n

\"IMAG0146\"We also wanted to inject some midcentury style back into the 90s remodel.\u00a0 In my dreams, this involves minty appliances, bold colors, and restoring the partial wall that was removed to make it ‘open concept.’\u00a0 In my reality, we picked some retro feeling pattern for the backsplash ala kurtcyr’s pollen-euphorbia pattern<\/a> on wallpaper at SpoonFlower.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Updating the cabinet pulls with sleeker, super simple options made a huge difference, and we painted.<\/p>\n

The result is extreme.\u00a0 The semi gloss we picked makes the room glow, though the effect is hard to capture on camera with all the windows throwing off the exposure.<\/p>\n

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just waiting for a dinette set.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eventually, we will build a kind of partition to shield the living room from the stove top, instead of allowing it to throw grease and vapors willy nilly onto upholstered furniture from it’s place in the middle of the peninsula.\u00a0 I know this placement isn’t so clear in these pictures; I am dribbling out my before and after snaps so you only see how awesome it all is.\u00a0 More will come later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every house has them: those rooms that need sprucing, the hole that needs patching.\u00a0 Well, after we finally painted the pokey hallway, my kitchen became the ugliest spot in the house.\u00a0 It’s visible from so many places in the house, it’s just too hard to ignore. And it’s not that it was that horrible.\u00a0 The… Continue reading The ugliest spot in the house<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[213,214],"class_list":["post-5459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-design","tag-the-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6201,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/06\/13\/before-and-afters\/","url_meta":{"origin":5459,"position":0},"title":"Before and afters","author":"leems","date":"June 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Hello beautiful people.\u00a0 I remember promising some more before and after pictures from the house, so now I'm going to give them to you.\u00a0 Welcome to my 1949 original pink bathroom.\u00a0 Originally, we wanted to wallpaper the bathrooms; we had some wonderful paper picked out for this one.\u00a0 Then I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bathroom-150x130.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bathroom-150x130.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bathroom-150x130.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/bathroom-150x130.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6129,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/06\/30\/still-brainstorming-house-colors\/","url_meta":{"origin":5459,"position":1},"title":"still brainstorming house colors","author":"leems","date":"June 30, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The more time I have to mull over something the more I consider\u00a0 other options.\u00a0 There is a pretty, new, bright blue paint job on a house two blocks away that caught my eye and I realized how crisp blue houses always stand out in a neighborhood.\u00a0 Then, a friend\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"housefront5","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/housefront5-600x450.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5529,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/03\/05\/color-my-house\/","url_meta":{"origin":5459,"position":2},"title":"Color my house","author":"leems","date":"March 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Painting the exterior of the house is on our five year plan, along with getting a driveway (it's true, we have none at all).\u00a0 I have a habit verbally and gesturally describing my vision in a way that no one I know seems to understand, so I've taken to making\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/housefront2-150x112.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/housefront2-150x112.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/housefront2-150x112.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8942,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/06\/02\/making-books\/","url_meta":{"origin":5459,"position":3},"title":"Making books","author":"leems","date":"June 2, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Taking an inherited recipe binder and making an easy to manage book My Grandmother kept her recipes in a recipe binder fitted out with envelopes for the various categories. 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