stealing from tumblr posts

I wish LJ had this kind of photo post

Kitchen restoration project in the 1924 addition to a 1911 building - it's almost all of what I've been doing lately. (Well, that and the rest of the apartment. But the kitchen has taken the most time and is the one I haven't contracted out anything except the new floor, not shown).

The person who added this kitchen in 1958 used a seemingly-random assortment of old used cabinets from different sources. They're all decent cabinets - and all older than 1958 - but they don't go together and so feel like a bunch of isolated islands rather than of a piece. I'm trying to fix that, by adding matching trim to the cabinets which didn't have it (window cabinets did, others didn't).

I'm using vintage wood, retained when other parts of the building got work. Parts of this trim came from a room which formerly had ceiling tile and early-60s panelling; other parts came from a strange, damaged, and badly-placed-to-start-with storage drawer cabinet in the basement.

Also, I fixed that fan, as well as cleaning and repainting the cover. INDUSTRIAL!

kill all the things

i am at that point in a project where i just wish i'd spraypainted everything white

also the fucking wrong paint that home depot gave me against my explicit instructions ("paint and primer in one" fuck that that's called shitty pigment) does not bind worth shit TO ITSELF i waited three times the minimum time for a second coat and got sheeting and horribleness

actually let me revise my first statement i am at that point in a project where i wish i'd blown up the building

ahhhhhhh the sound of distant explosions

so soothing