Thursday, January 6, 2011

I've Been Featured

I'm very excited and flattered to have our kitchen featured on Remodelaholic (you can read the post here).   Painting the kitchen was a huge project and at the time I felt like it went on  forever.  Now I'm just so happy I did it as the kitchen looks so fresh and clean.  I still have things I want to finish in there, but I can live with that. 


It's now been almost six months since I finished painting the kitchen and here are a few things I've noticed:
  • the cabinets are easier to wipe down now that they are painted
  • I love decorating the new open shelves and they hold almost as much as they did before
  • the darker colour on the bottom has helped hide spills on the cabinet doors near the dishwasher until they can be wiped up
It's a hard working kitchen and I love having it easier to clean and more to my taste than it was before.

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As I wrote last week, I just had my one year blog anniversary and that same week two things happened:  I ran out of photo space on Blogger and had to pay $5 for 10,000 more photos (which seemed like a good deal to me); and I filled up my blog following capacity.   Apparently you are only able to follow 300 blogs and I'm now there, which means that every time I find a new blog I want to follow I have to delete another one - gah!  It's agony.

14 comments:

  1. Congrats, Grace! I like the darker color on the bottom cabinet. Now I am off to see the post :D

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  2. Hi Grace, I have run into the same problem following blogs. But I find if I hit the follow button on the side of someone's blog it will add it. But if I copy and paste their address and try to add it it rejects it saying I have over 300. It is frustrating, but like I say, I haven't had trouble if the blog I want to follow has the follower thing on the sidebar.

    So how did they notify you about being full on the picture allotment?

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  3. Congrats on the the feature. How exciting. The kitchen looks fantastic and I like the very practical idea of the darker colour on the bottom.
    I don't quite think I am up to following 300 blogs yet, but I must admit, I have been terrible and have left the computer on the last couple of weeks and sit down every now and then to see what is happening. ~Deb~

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  4. First off the kitchen looks great! Second...I had no clue that there was a limit to anything on blogger...I guess, I get now, why so many are switching over to other blog sites. I had no idea there was a limit. Happy New Year.

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  5. No, I don't know about the save my blog feature!

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  6. Wow! How fabulous (and what a great tribute to all your hard work.) I am contemplating the painting of my kitchen cupboards this year as well. Only problem is - they are New Guinea rosewood and the thought of painting over natural timber fills me with a little bit of panic. (I can hear my dear father saying - "How could you possibly paint over such beautiful natural timber!!??") I am also slightly fearful that they might end up looking really bad and then I wouldn't be able to go back to the natural timber. Grace, did you spray your cupboards or use a brush? Also, did you use acrylic paint? I'll see if I can summons up the courage to give it a go.
    Congratulations once again! ;)Sharyne

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  7. Congrats on your feature Grace. I love that you did the bottom a different color. I had no idea about the following limit!

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  8. Wow!! I love your kitchen Grace. I am thinking a cup of coffee at your place would be heaven :)

    Only 300 ..oh,oh, thanks for the tip! Congrats on your Blog Anniversary too :)

    Jeanne xx

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  9. HI Grace, our kitchen certainly deserves to be shown , looks great. I've also had to pay the photo storage thing, but I didn't know about limit on following blogs!
    Have a great weekend
    Sharon

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  10. congratulations on the mention - your kitchen is fabulous!

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  11. Of course your kitchen was featured!! It's beautiful and you did a wonderful job on it! You've got me thinking ... I wonder how long it will be until I max out my photo storage ... I guess I'll expect the notice any day now.

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  12. 300 blogs....oh my goodness. makes me feel better about the 25-30, I probably follow. How do you ever have time to follow that many? It takes me about an hour to go through htem if I have time in the morning/evening. Sometimes I cruise around the sidebars of your blog...and Funky Junk, if I want to scope out a few more I think will interest me. (I love that feature by the way!)

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  13. Congratulations Grace! This is amazing .. . I had no idea you were featured on Remodelaholic. That's fantastic and such an honor. Your kitchen is beautiful! I'll head over there and read the story.

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  14. Congrats on your feature Grace! Your kitchen is fantastic!!

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