In the begining was a house.... it is my first house.  I had never realized what I could really do until I had my own home.  I had done small things in the past and I worked in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina and learned a lot from the faithful who went there to help rebuild and I owe a lot of what I have done to them and also my friends who have helped me here with some of my bigger projects.

The house was built in the late 60's and it showed....

The frist thing I wanted to do was make a half wall and open up the kitchen....

 

Then I sheetrocked and texturized  painted and then my friends came over and put the counter-top on.  We used a Glulam, a beam, for the countertop.  You can also see that I painted the cabinets and the other thing you can see is my ceiling.  I took down the popcorn ceiling and retexturized it with a knockdown technique, which I will talk about later.

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Then I dug around in my friends trash pile of wood that had been outside for a long time and found wood to put underneath my breakfast bar.  All I did was lightly sand it and the put varethane on it.  And I sanded then put a coat on the countertop and repeated it about four times.

You can also see that i put the cabinet doors back on.  I'm not content with my kitchen colors so I am in the process of redoing them, but that will be later.

The other thing you can see in this last picture is that I pulled up the carpet and painted the floor.  I will keep throw rugs on the floors until I can afford to put wood flooring down.