Bitch'n Kitchen

This week Mick got a wild hair and decided that we needed to redo the kitchen floor right now. Mind you, we have lived in this house for eight years and have been talking about redoing the floor pretty much since day one. You see, the people who had lived there before had put shag carpet in half of the kitchen, in the eating area. I suppose that's nice for people without children, but for us it was a nightmare. For example, one time, mentaljr dropped a nearly full jug of purple grape juice onto the carpet. It never really came out. Fortunately Unfortunately, I don't have a "before" picture of the entire kitchen, but I do have this lovely picture of Mick with what was under the carpet!

I can't imagine what this kitchen used to look like. The paint underneath what was there when we moved in was pink! Can you imagine pink walls with that linoleum? Anyway, we went to Home Depot and picked up some vinyl squares that had a pattern I hoped would hide muddy dog prints better than the white linoleum and light tan carpet we had before. Here's a picture of the white linoleum. Where you see the ugly linoleum is where the carpet used to be.

After some intense cleaning of the floor, we began to put the tiles down. Oh, and I discovered that the vegetable cleaning liquid that you can buy at Trader Joe's makes an excellent cleaner for tough grime. It also rinses away very easily. Oh, and by "we began to put the tiles down," I mean Mick began to put the tiles down.

After a few hours, we had it mostly done. After we got it down, though, we wondered if we chose the right color for the green color of the cabinets. I think, though that I can bring the colors together with some new curtains. I'll check out the fabric store in the next few days.

Oh, I found a sort of "before" picture of the kitchen carpet. Here's Kitty and Ben on the kitchen floor. Kitty is smacking Ben in the nose and Ben is just sitting there looking confused. Oh, and you see that big, green tub behind Ben? That's where I keep the dog food. You see, when you have a dog as big as Ben, you don't get to buy those cute, little bags of dog food that fit nicely in a cabinet. Nope, you've got to buy it in bulk.