Wood Floors....and California Girls

As promised, below are a few before and after pictures of the BIG kitchen and floor remodel. We are finally DONE!!! I say "we", but that actually means "Derek". If any of you plan to embark on a home remodel project, don't do it when you are 6-8 months pregnant. I was absolutely NO help and all I did was complain the whole time. However, now it is done, and it looks wonderful! Derek did all of it except install the granite counter tops. He did the back splash in the kitchen and laid over 650 square feet of wood flooring all by himself. THANK YOU, DEREK!!

Kitchen Before (OMG!! HOW UGLY!!...



Kitchen Now!



Dining Room Before...



Dining Room After!




Now, some of you may be wondering about the title of this post. There is a song out on the radio now by Artist Katy Perry called "California Girls". For those unfamiliar with it, it is a cute summer time song talking about how California girls having sun kissed tans, and wear "daisy duke shorts with bikini tops".

During the course of this home remodel, we would turn on our home stereo to 106.1 (KISS FM) and listen to the radio. For those of you who listen to this station, you know that they play the same 10 songs ALL DAY LONG!!! So, we consider this song our home remodel anthem. Now, the cute part of this story is this,...Derek has never been one to memorize or even understand the words to ANY song on the radio. He usually just makes things up. Well, for some reason, he likes this song?? Every time it would come on the radio, I would hear him bust out his favorite line of the song from the other room... "Daisy Dukes...Bikini's on top"...and then that was all that he would sing. It makes me laugh, because of all of the other words to the song, he chooses to memorize that line?!? Very cute! And he will probably kill me for posting it on the blog (but he is out of town right now) :) HeHe!