Slightly Less Yellow

This is the story of a kitchen that is yellow, so yellow, it won't quit. 

Last week, now that (thank you Hashem!) all of the construction and repair from the burst pipe incident of 2014 has been completed, I got the DIY bug back. Good news for me, bad news for Ami who has to deal with the brunt of my impulsive wallpaper peeling, ikea tripping, home depot ordering, etc. 

Our kitchen, as you know is highlighted by BEAUTIFUL (ummm) yellow cabinets. And two patterns of yellow and while wallpaper. While the more offensive one, with huge flowers was removed circa October, we left the far side with the far less offensive, though still pretty bad yellow zig zag side for "another day". Well, that day had come.

Here's a shot from inspection, on the wall you can see the zig zag stripes, not terrible, and particularly not so noticeable here, but really, not ideal, like, at all.

The flowers in their heyday, in case you forgot...

And after an hour peeling, steaming and scraping look what I found???

You got it- a hot yellow wall. HOT. 

Let me tell you. There is NOTHING sadder then peeling wallpaper with an ugly though not the worst yellow pattern then to find a heinus yellow wall beneath.

So you can imagine, the painting schedule in terms of priority got moved up from "over the next few weeks" to "RIGHTNOW". 

And here we are today; a Slightly Less Yellow Kitchen. We've still got those rocking cabinets, but the room seems mellowed minus the dueling yellow wallpapers. Small victories people. And thank you to my best partner in painting who drywalled, primed and painted to give me a fresh white wall to lovingly stare as I dream of ripping down the cabinets one day in the not so soon future...

Also, all this painting, and peeling and scrubbing took place as our little guy over here got in FOUR new teeth. This sweet poor Levavi has been such a crying, drooling disaster that one day Ami was so desperate that he even took my advice and stuck that kid in a bath. He is always happy in the bath even with tooth daggers cutting their way through his sweet baby gums. There's a smile!