Warning: Items on your agenda may be more costly, complicated and time consuming than they first appear.

 

Add some under cabinet lights, and throw up a tile backsplash!  Sounds like a pretty self-contained project to the optimistic but naive home improvement enthusiast like myself.  The electrician made it sound like it would be no big deal to just tile over this mess he made out of the walls.  However, each hole had to be braced and the drywall repaired for the tiles to be secured evenly.  Cheers to the stacks of tile sitting in the garage and a Saturday morning spent with gorilla glue and crayola markers.  Up next- an afternoon with joint compound.