Weekend Project Warriors

All too often (by Jay's standards) I get set on these little projects for our house. I usually give Jay about 30 seconds to object, before I have everything lined up and purchased. After being questioned by my 9 year old cousin as to why "adults always spend so much money fixing their house", the only answer I had for him was "wait until you have your own house and you will completely understand." And so began the Backsplash Update Project of 2013.

Now, to my defense, I have been wanting to replace the kitchen backsplash for quite some time. It's white, boring, and just not my style. I appreciate the fact that the individual who arranged for this house to be built didn't want to creat the Taj Mahal, however, a little character is appreciated. So anyways, this is not something out of the blue and I am sure that Jay knew it was coming sooner or later. So, on Friday, I made my way to Lowes and found some new tiles.

So, here is where the fun starts. We started to break out the existing tile....and...uh....the tiles took the sheetrock with it. Typical. Apparently when I served the tile their eviction notice, the sheetrock thought it was being evicted, as well. My quick weekend project... is now not going to be so quick after all. I am guessing a week+ to complete. And while I shouldn't have expected any less, I was really not looking to sheetrock with this "quick" project. I think the words "if I ever have to sand mud ever again, it will be to soon" have left my mouth on multiple occasions.

And so, photos to show where we are at. Hopefully by Friday, we will be done with this, but I'm not holding my breath.