Today was a little bit of this and a little bit of that.  It was a school holiday, so the boys were home and that means a lot more pancake-making and Go Fish and Legos and Phineas & Ferb than my usual weekday.  I did get few things done, though.  The main thing on the to-do list was getting the kitchen prepped for the tile back splash my dad and I are installing tomorrow (Tuesday.)     Right now I just have a drywall back splash that’s painted in chalkboard paint.  The back splash project isn’t for a freelance tutorial, but I’m installing butcher block counters and showing how to build a custom range hood, so it makes sense to do the tiling at the same time.  I’ll share the tile back splash tutorial here on the blog. So, somehow prepping the kitchen for tiling led to me cleaning the

The planked ceiling is almost done, but I couldn’t wait until we totally finished to share how amazing it looks..       There’s still a lot of finishing to do…holes to fill, paint to touch up, I need to make a cord cover for the chandelier cord, we’re going to add crown molding (also for a tutorial), and we have about 3 feet of the ceiling left to plank.  We ran out of material because someone miscounted the packages of planks we had on the cart.  Yeah.  It was me and I was bummed when I realized we couldn’t finish and I had more plank-painting in my future, but my shoulders were shaky and we were ready for a rest anyway.  What we finished, though, makes me giddy.  The chandelier puts it over the top.  As I was laying in bed last night, I hoped my eyes would adjust,