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| Linda wouldn't even take a photo of the cabinets. |
It's been a bittersweet day for Linda. She loves her new wood floor. It's beautiful and matches our furniture perfectly. The installers did a great job too and were very professional. When Linda got home from class this morning, she was super excited to see the finished floors.... Until she looked at them up against the fake wood kitchen cabinets. The cabinets look so ugly that she got teary-eyed and started to cry a little bit. The cabinets haven't changed since 1984 when she first moved in to the house. For 25 years they were OK. Not beautiful, but they were fine and held the cups and plates. The floor before the hardwood was 12" square plastic tiles that press down. The design was a fake butcher-block pattern. Probably the ugliest floor in town, maybe even the country. Plus, the tiles were peeling up, so it looked extra bad. When the fake plastic butcher block floor was up against the fake wood cabinets, it all looked bad together and wasn't really that obnoxious. (Is any of this making any sense, because I don't have a clue what she is talking about.) Linda is not a decorator. She could care less about curtains, colors, or furniture. She's lived with plywood showing through her worn carpet, paneling from the 80's, concrete floor in the laundry room with studs and no drywall for years now. It's never bothered her a lick. All of a sudden she is crying over ugly cabinets! John the painter is going to come over tomorrow and see if he can fix them for her by painting or staining them. Getting all new cabinets will cost boo-coo bucks. (For the boys reading this, it would be like getting gorgeous new rims for your truck but the body paint was all peeling, chipped and rusted. Before the rims, everything would have just looked ugly together. The new rims just highlight how ugly the paint is.)
