Nope…this is STILL not the Week 8 post. I would’ve finished it, but I was too busy looking for something. Well, actually, not SOMEthing. EVERYTHING.
I would have likely found it in the pantry or one of my secret-stash junk drawers. But they are gone.
Gone, GONE, GONE!
No secret stash drawers?
Nope.
Where the heck are your earrings? Paper clips? Yesterday’s necklace? The screw that you found on the floor last year? Keys to doors you no longer own? WHERE ARE THE KEYS???!!!
Well that’s the problem isn’t it?
Big deal, you cleaned out your drawers and can’t find anything because things are where they actually belong.
Nope. I didn’t clean the drawers (I mean, I did, but that’s irrelevant). We removed them. G-O-N-E, GONE. The little desk next to the fridge, the cabinet above the desk…AND the one above the fridge (where we stashed the PAAS kits we didn’t use last Easter)…
also the entire pantry closet (WHERE ARE THE DORITOS!!!)….
and the butler pantry cabinet (next to the dining room that housed the alcohol storage…(I KNOW where to find the alcohol as I am visiting it regularly…just kidding….a little),
and the buffet-I-didn’t-love that I had in the back hallway (with all of those great stash drawers)…
and the benches in the back hallway, which didn’t actually store anything, but hey, as long as you’re tearing apart your house, let’s get rid of those, too!
Hey, I have a dentist appointment tomorrow, can you speed this along?
Fine. but it should make entirely zero sense when I tell you that I have no pantry or junk drawers because we are replacing our floor.
Hey, Drama Queen, Leslie just got a gorgeous new floor and did it without all this hoo ha.
Well THAT”S why Leslie’s blog has readers.
Em’s house is the home decorating version of “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
If you put in a new floor, should it go under the kitchen island or around it? In a normal house, you might say, “around it.” But Mr DustandDoghair and his long suffering wife 🤣 might want to change a few things here and there, So rather than having to patch and repair new flooring, we are thinking ahead to things on our wish list.
Mr does NOT and has never liked our kitchen pantry. So I fed that monster a high protein demolition diet. “Here honey, I think it would be easier to remove those walls if we used the reciprocating saw.” And while we were still covered in dust from removing the cabinets and demolishing the pantry, I unfurled my evil plan: “You know…if we move the fridge somewhere else, that whole wall could be a really cool beverage bar/station/thing.” Mr was ALL in!
You know who wasn’t pleased? Jack. Under the desk was his “spot.”
And as one thing led to another in one area…it spread like wildfire throughout the house. “Hey, Mare” (that’s what Mr calls me because my given name, you may recall, is “Mary” and I’m pretending that a mare is not-coincidentally the name of a female horse) “I think we should refinish the stairs to match the new floor..”
Strip and sand down the stairs, landings and railing? Is he out of his freaking mind!? Apparently not, we’ve been at it all week.
On the bright side, all those leftover covid masks that were stashed in the back hall buffet are now being used to keep fine dust out of my nose while sanding….and stripping (not the fun kind)…and sanding some more.
And so it begins… a reasonably small project has acquired legs and is running us into potentially major renovations. We’ve met, so who finds that surprising? This week, our “I wonder if we could knock out the wall where the stove is,” is edging frighteningly closer into “lets take out the wall where the stove is!”
THAT will be some clean-out, because this particular kitchen wall separates us from an entire stash ROOM.
On the bright side, we’ll be having a lot more take out.
But Yeesh!! All these projects are absolutely putting the dust in DustandDoghair.
For now, everything is everyWHERE… However, this is supposed to be a “Where Bloggers Live” post about pantries. Ours is currently setup in the basement next to the washer and dryer. Go ahead and Pin it if you want, 🤣
One thing’s for sure… I’m not expecting any calls from Better Homes and Gardens.
Well, time for me to sand some stair rails. In the interim, kindly check out the pantry posts from my blogger buddies!
Daenel at Living Outside the Stacks
Bettye at Fashion Schlub
Leslie at Once Upon a Time & Happily Ever After
Sally at Within a World of My Own
Iris at Iris’ Original Ramblings
Jodie at Jodie’s Touch of Style
Who doesn’t like to peek behind the scenes and see inside people’s homes? The second Friday of each month is when this group of six bloggers links up to share their workspaces, homes, towns… or whatever our fearless leader, the fabulous Bettye, proposes.
Make sure you visit everyone to see where the magic happens!
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Hahaha!! Thanks for the mention. I was so worried about all the drama that would come with the fairly simple installation of our floors. I could envision another pool-type disaster but it really went well. And I still like the floors – even in broad daylight – now a month later. Woo hoo!! But we are still – 6 years and counting – waiting for the repair of the pool to begin. Supposedly, next week!! Hahaha!!
The photo of all 3 pups looking forlorn and confused made me giggle. Our poor fur babies. Purrsimmony and Purrsnickitty had no idea why we were tearing out the carpet in the upstairs hall that was their joint preferred place to throw up and to rid themselves of those pesky hairballs. Which was precisely why we wanted that carpet gone…GONE.
Was sad to see the benches go. We have been buddies so long that I remember either the installation of the benches or their updating with the cute pillows, valances on the windows above them and that checked rug at the entry. Are you going to put new benches in their place?
Cannot wait to see the finished work. You have to document all the progress to share with us….YOUR READERS, of which I am certain you have many more than I!! I haven’t told PC yet, but it is time to paint the interior and to replace the carpeting in all our bedrooms. And he thought he could retire early!! Hahaha!!
Big hugs to you. You make me laugh. And I love you for that.
You had me at Paas kits! I think I have a couple in the 15-20 year old range somehow thinking the kids (ages 28-31) will want them….
Fear not: I can already tell this will be beautiful. It is smart to do the whole floor; islands come, move and go. Same with doing the stairs, if you didn’t do it now, you would want to do it later. Keep meditating on beverage world! Can’t wait to see the after pics.
“And then a hero comes along…with the strength to carry o-o-onnnn”. Oh, Anne! Music to my ears! I was just joking with Mr that it will likely take longer to finish this project than it did to build the house. (Especially with a crew that makes it up as they goe along…minus the actual knowledge, haha). Very nice to read your encouraging words! This is exactly why we put off doing the floor for so long… Making any of these changes down the road would require us to patch/repair a new floor…so it’s all happening at once.
Your kiddos are the same age range as ours. I’m not sure why, but the times we don’t do eggs they really seem to miss them…so we keep the kits on hand just in case. Last year, they decided to do them on Easter…and it was pretty fun! Of course, now that you need a second mortgage for three dozen eggs, I may need a firmer commitment of interest.
Oh, poor Jack!!!
I…I..I..I don’t even know where to begin. Apparently neither did you. GIRL! What is going on?!? I can’t even get straight in my head what is going on here – taking down everything everywhere to replace floors? EVERYWHERE? At the same time?! I can’t. I just cannot.
I will go lay down now on your behalf.
Yeah, I know. It seems silly, but it’s logical, sorta: It’s not that were doing it TO replace floors… The floor has to happen, so the other things got moved up the wish list so we can avoid having to patch and repair it after it’s installed.
I DO feel much better now that you have taken me off my feet… so thank you! 😘
The thing is, once you finish your project that has had amendment plus amendment…it will be part of Better Homes and Gardens, because you of all people know how to make a house look AMAZING.
It’s so impressive that you guys do this on your own.
I wish we would. Instead, we contemplate moving. Again. I kid you not.
XOOX
Jodie
Impressive/frugal/crazy…who knows.? Are you contemplating moving????!!! I do wonder if that’s a guy thing… Mr used to talk that way every time there was a house or neighbor issue. He still talks about “the next house” and while there are definitely things I would change or would have done differently, I don’t plan on going anywhere once we’re done with this endeavor (famous last words…don’t want to jinx myself!).
Girl, you make me laugh! Good luck, when you are finished I’m sure it will be gorgeous! (Maybe around Mother’s day?) When we start a project like this I always think 2 things, it will be quick and the surrounding mess won’t bother me! Fail on both! We’re adding on a sunroom, which I think you know, and the upheaval has spread throughout the house!
Good luck 👍
Oh, Vee, you optimist! Mother’s Day NEXT year if I’m lucky!!!
I’ve been following your sunroom project on IG and THAT is very exciting!!! I am envisioning all the beautiful plants you and your cowboy will enjoy in that room…plus the view!!! But, the upheaval; wow, you’ve got that right! The dust and the tools are everywhere! I think my decorating style for the next half year will be dropcloth chic.
I am now tired from watching all this activity. If you decide to pivot, I think a Demolition Addiction reality program would be in your wheelhouse! A kitchen pantry that doubles as accessory storage – yep, I get it.
When Mr runs a project, it’s never small. It STARTS small, but it grows exponentially. The four scariest words: “Hey, Mare. What if..”