MONDAY TAKING TIME TO BE THANKFUL

Is this not the ugliest flooring that you have ever seen?

The irony is that this is the second house that I have had with this same ugly flooring. Ha. I was so happy the day that I got rid of it in my "real house". I lose that house... live for a time in a strange little house with two rooms plus two bathrooms. (I've no idea why you need two bathrooms in a two room house, but there weren't as many fights over who got to use the john.) Then I buy this house and presto... there is that same awful, ugly flooring! Some Jake did a bang up job peddling this crap to builders and mobile home manufacturers. He must have gotten a heck of a bonus in the 70s.


Well, that ugly crap is now history, except for in my bedroom. Maybe under the living room carpet too. StbX says that is not unusual for them to just put it down and layer other things on top with a mobile home.





I took crazy4coens' advice and began attempting to do this job myself... with Squeaky's help. StbX could not stand it. He says "Just stop... STOP, you're going to f*ck it all up. I'll do it."



Believe it or not, those words made my day. StbX is good at things like this. I am terrible at them. I have tried everything I could think of to get him to agree to help...

hee hee and the old "Tawanda! I can do it myself." thing scared the crap right out of him and set the ball in motion.






It's getting there. Most of the dining room is done. There is still the foyer area and the kitchen to do after he finishes this part.



All it has cost me so far is two cans of Foster's Ale and a nice diner.









Which happens to be homemade mushroom - red onion soup. I made it with a lovely ball joint pot roast for the broth... this I take out and serve to the guys as part of their meal but I don't eat the meat. I do not cream the soup. It has a nice dark beefy onion broth when it's done. Very yummy! No one likes the carrots but me, so they're all mine! Bonus.








I am very happy about this new decorating development. StbX has always taken over every decorating project I've ever wanted to do. I don't just mean the work part, though that is nice. He thinks he has better taste and drives me nuts. Sheesh!




Granted, I did once want to do my kitchen floor in "tiles" that were actually pieces of torn paper bags. Yes... and it would have looked really cool like quarry tile. But he had a fit and I ended up with some ugly white junk. White in a kitchen on the floor! Insanity.


This is in my new to me room. I painted this when Max was a baby to dangle over his crib. He's kept it all this time.




I like looking at it. He was such a great baby.
Nice memories.



This is also in my room. It's some of Max's ink of his comic. The walls as you know are one big nightmare of a collage. I do think it is very cool, but it gets a bit overwhelming to my senses.





This is on the wall too. There are 24 posters woven in with the clips and bits.

It is a great movie... isn't it?

I love Dewight with his red sneakers. I love red. Reminds me of Sammy Hagar, but I won't do that to you today... that's for another day.

Below is Squeaky's opinion of what I should do with my camera.

Brat.

Okay, so you've seen my new flooring. It's not too bad for inexpensive stuff.


However in older mobile homes like this, you have paneling everywhere. Very ugly, dark paneling.


My idea was to paint it sort of a coffee with cream in it color.

Not off white, but something with a bit more carmel tint.

Then give the whole place a nice cottage at the ocean feel.


Normally I would never paint paneling, but I think this will work.


What do you think? I'm open to suggestions too... do you know of anything clever that can be done to crappy wood paneling to spiff it up?

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