Snowballing!

For those of you who don't know Jeff and I are doing a few house projects at the moment. What started out as a small remodel on our main floor 1/2 bath has turned into a bath/kitchen/hallway remodel. Yikes! Once we started demoing the bathroom we decided that we needed a new floor and me being the ever optimist thought that laying ceramic tile would be easy (mostly because Jeff would be laying it) and would look great. Once I decided that was what I wanted, my dear hubby informed me that we couldn't just lay tile in the bathroom since it butts up against ugly linoleum in our hallway that extends into the kitchen. He said the only way he'd lay a new floor is if we also did the hallway and the kitchen. Silly me I figured, "sweet what a great way to get the hubby to lay all of the ceramic tile at once." What I didn't figure is what a pain in the ass laying ceramic linoleum in that entire area was going to be. For starters we had this ugly ridiculous avocado green garbage disposal in a corner of our kitchen where a garbage disposal was never meant to be. To make matters worse the doorknobs that put the disposal in (which has never worked by the way) decided it didn't look right without a cabinet over it (even though there are no other cabinets on the entire wall). This was a great example of, just because you have a space doesn't mean you have to fill it with crap! So last week when Jeff decided to pull out the disposal and the cupboard we learned that the ugly paneling that was put all over the kitchen walls was not placed behind these areas, thus we had to pull all the paneling off the entire back wall and replace it with sheet rock. Okay, wanted to do that anyways so I wasn't too freaked out about that. It was also at this time, however, that we learned that some idiot (probably the same one that put the avocado green garbage disposal in) laid asbestos tile all over the floor that linoleum was placed on top of. So we've got like one inch of flooring laid down that will cost us roughly four grand to get properly removed - awesome. It was at this point we decided we would leave the entire floor down and lay the tile on top of everything. Which, on the bright side, is kind of nice because we don't have to rip the linoleum up but we are going to have to get creative in transitioning from the ceramic tile to the wood floors that are in the rest of the house. We also figured that since the floor was going to be new in the kitchen our yellow circa 1970s counter top just wouldn't fit in anymore. Did they ever?? That's when we got the bright idea that we could create concrete counter tops like our friends Robin and Trev did (their's look awesome). This is very exciting but adds to the workload. To top everything off, Jeff wants to lay the tile over New Years since we both have four days off. That means we have to get the underlayment down, the sheet rock up and perphataped and I'd love to get the walls painted all before the deadline of December 28th. It's at this time that I have to remind everyone that I don't have all of my Christmas crap done. So no stress what so ever in the Kline household. What cracks me up is how we bring this all on ourselves. I do have hope in the fact that all past projects have turned out great, minus a few fights between my darling hubby and I during the process. So wish us luck with not only getting everything done but with not having nervous break downs or divorce procedings along the way. Now do you see what I mean by snowballing:)

PS - no panic attacks yet from the excitement of Christmas so at least I've got that going for me!
PSS - pictures to follow!