What is Wrong with us?

"What is wrong with us?"  That is the phrase my husband of 35 years and I have said outloud while watching HGTV.  We watch the young couple who don't know how to plug in power tools remodel a kitchen; a working single mom with 4 children and dog renovate a home; a retired couple gut and complete their home and the 10 year old perfectly tile and grout a bathroom.  We sit there in awe turning to each other, rather ashamed, and say "what is wrong with us?"

BEFORE (and okay maybe I do have too much on the refrigerator)

What is wrong is that since we moved into our home we had a list of items we didn't like and wanted to change:

• kitchen backsplash with blue tile insets that used match the "lovely" blue flowered and paisley curtains
• kitchen floor  that is WHITE!  Who puts on a white kitchen floor?
• remove the carpeting from the bathrooms - again who does this?
• replace fixtures, etc. etc. etc.

Why not hire a professional? Well with four kids, three in college, various medical bills and cars that seem to suck money away from such projects, it was time to stop waiting to win the Publishers Clearing House and just do it ourselves.

Mind you we (and by we I mean my husband) have replaced about half our faucets. And we did remove the wall paper that matched the paisley curtains and blue tile. Even removing the wall paper from the light fixture box. (maybe the question should be "what was wrong with them?")

And so, seven years later, inspired by a sale on glass tile at Costco, we decided to take the plunge.  This will chronicle our adventures into an area of DIY we have never traveled