Living room – kitchen wall completion

Living room – kitchen wall completion

I was all fired up to build my last two cabinets for the kitchen and get this project finished up but soon realized that I had to either finish the living room/kitchen wall first or deal with mudding around my new cabinets which would undoubtedly not remain free of joint compound blobs no matter how much tape and plastic I use.  I can’t seem to mud anything without slopping a bit of that stuff around on just about everything in the vicinity.

I opted to finish my wall first.   I couldn’t be happier to be done, in part because I hate skim coating and in part because the whole room looks better with this small improvement.

 

I have to mention the fireplace…in case you didn’t notice that change.  Uhm…  I hate it.  It takes up way too much space in this small living room and as soon as I finish the other 20 projects that need to be completed, the fireplace is next on the list.  Corner fireplaces waste a ton of space and this room has no space to waste.

So the white paint was not a design decision that I hemmed and hawed about like I do with practically everything.

It was a spur of the moment act of passion.  I was priming my walls.  I was hot and sweaty.  I was irritable.  I hate the fireplace and was SUPER tempted to go grab a sledgehammer and take a whack at it but knew that would drive Wes crazy for the months and months that it would inevitably remain half destroyed.  So I whacked it with a paint roller instead.  Then I taped it off properly and madison volunteered to finish priming and painting it.

Do I love it?  No, but I like it better this way than before so maybe I can live with it until I can get to it properly.  🙂

So now I won’t have to try to skim coat around the last cabinets.  That would have been a PAIN.

I decided to make this a full length dish storage cabinet so I also have to get rid of those light switches…unless I change my mind 4 more times and end up with something else.  I’m turning out to be really fickle with this particular decision!