Adventures in DIY home improvements, part 1.

I have this house. The mister chose this house for no other reason than the massive amounts of garage space. It has the orginal garage built when the house was, back in the fifties, and a newer one that fits twice as many cars. The house is not all that large. She's a good little house that needs some love. When I moved in two years ago, the house was stuck in the 60s and 80s. There was carpet in the finished part of the basement that came from an episode of the Brady Bunch, and the kitchen had little country hearts and flowers stenciled on the cabinets and wallpaper that could have been in Full House. It was bad.
I promptly removed the wallpaper,and painted white primer over the country blue cabinet doors. Now, two years later, I stripped pain off the upper doors. My poor kitchen (what little there is of it) has robin's egg blue counters, off-white door openings, and country blue cabinet doors and trim. The flooring is (according to a blog I found about remodeling and finding a 1960s kitchen inder a bad fix-it job) a 1962 Armstrong special.

Step 1 was to remove wallpaper.
Step 2 was/is to get rid of  the blue doors.
Step 3 is to remove the countertop and replace it with something made in this century.
Step 4 is to remove and replace the 1960 flooring.
Step 5 is to hopefully repaint the hardware to a brushed nickel finish
Step 6 is the last step, to get rid of the blue trim and paint it all white while I paint the walls all one color.

That is simply the kitchen. More to come on other parts of my home.
 Exhibit 1, the blue on blue on wallpaper and white.

Exhibit 2 and 3, the Brady bunch carpet and the stripped doors.

Exhibit 4, the 1962 flooring