I don't believe a picture is worth a thousand words (not most of my pictures, anyway) but I wouldn't be able to think of 4,000 words on this subject so today I am taking the easy way out by showing you what I've been up to at The Hellhole instead of writing about it.

This is my new kitchen faucet. I like the porcelain handles - kinda retro. My dad installed it - I'm not good at plumbing. Mainly because all of my pants come up over my butt-crack.

Okay, okay, his do too, but otherwise the plumber joke doesn't work.






This is the new kitchen wallpaper.









This is the new hall wallpaper. I took this picture before it was finished.












This is the hall after the wallpaper border was added. I haven't finished trimming it or putting the border all the way around but this corner is finished.

My mom did most of the wallpaper. I handed her tools at appropriate moments, held the bottom of the roll while she matched it, measured incorrectly (causing her to have 3 different do-overs) and other helpful stuff. My mom doesn't have plumber-butt either, but if she did you wouldn't be able to tell because she is very little so most of her t-shirts hang down really low.