I am the Plumbing Goddess!

I feel so totally empowered by this. I fixed my kitchen faucet by myself.

I bought a nice faucet that I liked even better than the old one. After figuring out the instructions (all pictures, no words!) and then determined precisely how to get my head under the sink without knocking myself unconscious on the bottom of the sink, I managed to remove the old parts and install the new ones.

Let me tell you my heart was in my throat when I turned the shutoff valves back on, allowing water to go through. Yikes. I was literally waiting with towel and bucket, expecting a shower. Imagine my surprise when there was not only a shower, but not even a dribble or a drop, and improved water pressure to boot (I think my old faucet was just bad!) The new set even has a cool new sprayer, which replaced the one I broke, and it looks cooler, too.

Now that I know I have the Mandate of the Home Improvement Gods, I am next tackling the painting of said kitchen. The current color is this horrifying Kill Bill yellow. I can't even blame it on a misguided previous owner--I had the color custom mixed. The color I have selected (and have the mister's approval on) is a very pale beach-glass green. I had a tough time picking a color. My counter top is blue, and I have white wall paper with red cherries on it, and cherries on the curtains as well. Yellow seemed like a good idea at the time, but that primary color clashing was just killing me. Green is analogous with blue so I hope it will create a more harmonious (as opposed to cacaphonous) mood.

Even better, I think I'm going to replace the cabinet knobs with green glass ones. I think that will give my kitchen a cool retro look, as opposed to an "Oh My God, this just fell out of the 50s!" retro look :-)