For this, I think I can get over it!Happy Memorial Day weekend to all my American friends!

No smoke and mirrors around here!.So let’s get on with the tour!

Please keep your seat belt buckled and your arms inside the windows at all times.Just duck out of the way if you see one of the walls starting to crumble above you.You think I’m joking.

So here’s what it looks like on the property around the house.. It’s beautiful and peaceful and a great place to escape the madness and mess going on inside sometimes.. We recently finished up a mini deck recycle/renovation, so now we have a great place to enjoy the view.. Here’s how it looked before:.You can read more about that project.

.. Next we’ll move inside.. Last Summer, I wrote a post called.

“How to Love Your Ugly Kitchen”.We always have big plans/dreams for the future, but some of these smaller projects that we do really help us to enjoy our home so much even when we don’t have the time or the budget to do the bigger renovations right away..

This particular project is kind of weirdly specific, but it came about because of the fact that we decided to re-do the trim at the tops of our cabinets to give the whole room a more open and updated feel.So that left this area over the range hood, that had previously been covered up, exposed.

We looked at our options and we discovered that the maker of our range hood does sell just the plain stainless steel tube to cover the vent pipe if yours is exposed, but that tube is really kind of expensive for something so plain and unexciting.And it would still probably end up being a lot of work because we’d still probably need to to cut it down to fit our weird wonky space exactly.