Last week, as I mentioned, Pablo and I came home to a plumbing emergency. It appears that one too many baby wipes and reams of dental floss had been flushed down the toilet, and so our bathroom had to be gutted straight through to the kitchen below, in order to repair the leak.
Behold our new kitchen ceiling:
Since Barry, our insurance agent, quickly informed us that they won't be covering "any aesthetic fixes" until we've met our "$1,000 deductible" {suck a dirty pipe, Barry}, I've decided to approach the situation with a fresh outlook. Here are just a few ideas of how we can best utilize our new industrial-grade ceiling:
1. Place a high table directly beneath the hole and hang pots and pans from the exposed pipes. Voila! The center island I’ve always wanted!
2. Storage solution. Our pantry is getting a bit cramped—why not toss a couple bags of potato chips and a box of Pampers up into the otherwise empty space? Strategic and easy to access!
3. Cut a five-inch hole straight through to the bathroom floorboards and use it to pass toilet paper up from the kitchen in a pinch.
4. Spray paint the whole ceiling silver and hang a few energy efficient light bulbs from the largest pipes via wire. I noticed a similar design at Michael’s Genuine in Miami last week, and damned if I can’t DIY that s#it up!
5. Transform into a seasonal display, complete with scary bats and spider webs, paper pilgrims and turkeys, and scented garland and mistletoe!
Whew! That’s all I’ve got, but please feel free to weigh in with any additional suggestions. I’m in a glass-half-full kind of mood today, and what better time than the present to put my HGTV-honed decorating skills to good use?
9 comments:
spray paint that s#it in there white to match. or black to contrast. nobody will ever know. i'm with ya! DIY baby!
omg your ideas are hilarious and while i know halloween's not exactly your bag, i'd be happy to come up with some fun decorations. i've got heaps of ideas.
Every good kitchen needs a stripper pole
You are SO funny!!! Thanks for the good laugh. I like option 1, but option 5 is close runner up!
I love how you've managed to keep your sense of humor about your unexpected home renos!! These are hilarious.
Where is sweet little devon? We havent seen her in a while, did she went to miami?
As for the kitchen, i sugest you cover it up with some colorful paper, and add little pieces all over the ceiling, make some galery of devons drawings (does she draw yet?)
I love #3. Such a time saver and should be a real value if/when you sell!
Tanya--how could I have overlooked such an obvious architectural detail?! Not only would a stripper pole in a kitchen make perfect sense, it could also double as an escape route from the upstairs bathroom, much like a fireman's pole.
O.M.G.
Isn't being a homeowner fabulous?
I say get on Etsy and order those poof balls out the wazoo. No one will even notice.
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