Although I am very pleased with the end result, it has not been without a few disasters. The ceilings had never been painted and in the dining room area the ceiling is that popcorn finish. Now having lived in a few places, I have dealt with popcorn ceilings. In fact the last place had GLITTER in the ceilings. We did successfully paint it out, but always with the same color. Because it usually has never been painted people remove this with a spray of water and some scraping. It gets dirty after a few years folks!!! I decided to paint it with the same color as the walls...a little more beige than before. YUK! Even with a sponge roller designed for this project, it has been a disaster. But let me regress. Thursday, we opted to go for coffee with a friend. We were gone for perhaps an hour and 45 minutes. When we arrived home this kitchen floor was a flood of water. The dishwasher? The sink?...The Mr. went downstairs and the furnace room was flooded, it had run all over the basement. He lost some of his leather patterns...a mess. The culprit? The connection on the fridge for the water supply for the ice maker had blown out! We spent 2 hrs with 2 vacuums upstairs and down and pulled up flooring in the kitchen...at least a third of this will need to be replaced. (We were lucky enough to find 2 boxes at the big box store today but were told it has been discontinued) Will do that when we get time. Meanwhile, had to buy another gallon of paint for the ceiling and still haven't got it all covered. More work for this week. My 5 shades that I scored for the chandelier look great here but as we were painting today one of them got pushed against a bulb and suddenly we had smoke rising up and now one of those shades has a large hole in it. If it can go wrong, it will! We will take tomorrow off and go for a drive.
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