Penis in the Dirt and other Weekend Projects

Some people see Jesus in their toast or Mary in their tree trunks. I see penises in dust.

Mysterious penis shape on my table. I swear I didn't remove a "toy" from the table top. Or a disembodied penis.

This is what I found when I cleaned off the original kitchen table that goes in my breakfast nook which I found outside by the hot tub.

This weekend I got a bunch of things started. Stephen came over and helped me clean up said table. It just needed a good washing and a fresh coat of paint on the base.

Stephen scraping paint off the base of the table. Such a good helper!

We also (I use "we" loosely here as Stephen did all the work while I took pictures and made sure he wore my safety goggles) removed the oddball cabinet that was in the breakfast nook.
Stephen removing the cabinet. Crowbar = most useful tool ever. It's been used on half the projects at my house so far.

It turns out I'm really bad at remembering to take before pictures, but here's the after. At least it's really obvious where the cabinet was.

Breakfast nook where cabinet was removed.

We readjusted my water pressure because it went from being way too high to a little too low. Adam stopped by and got my Tivo and cable box talking to each other.

I went to Yogurtland. 3 times in two days (and Home Depot twice in one day). But still found time to also prime the kitchen walls, paint the inside and outside of the cabinet in the bathroom and finally tackled something that's been driving me nuts AND preventing me from a lot of unpacking: the linen closet.

Some people move in to a house and need to paint it or remodel the kitchen immediately. I have to line my closets with contact paper before I'll put anything in them and pretty much everything that I have left to unpack goes in the closets. Well, my linen closet has been driving me nuts because it looks dingy. The walls were dirty and the shelves were all dark, raw wood that made it look dirty. I know it's a closet and by nature DARK, but I wanted it clean and bright.

Again, I forgot to do a before picture, but here's a shot I took before I bought the house, with all the tenant's crud in the closet.

So besides painting the walls, I primed and painted all the shelves white before I lined them:
I found relatively cute contact paper at Home Depot for $6. I was going to be really crafty and get fun gift wrap (wallpaper works too, but I don't know where a good wallpaper store is in SD) and cover that with clear contact paper. But I realized that was just way too ridiculous. You can't see it once everything's in the closet, it would take twice as long to do, and also cost twice as much. Although it may not appear like it, I DO realize it's just a darn closet and it doesn't really matter what it looks like. As long as it's bright and clean =)~

The other thing I did while I had Stephen's extra pair of hands on Saturday is organize the living room furniture. Here's test run room layout #1.

I don't really like it, but at least I have a living room now. That looks terrible because I'm not hanging up any of my art until I paint. I probably should have spent more time finally deciding on living room and bedroom colors this weekend instead of painting the closet!