Pinterest Addiction

For the past couple of nights I have been navigating Pinterest. I will be fortunate if my iphone has not consumed all the data! On a side note, AT&T needs to bring back the unlimited data plan. Okay so back to Pinterest...I have a serious addiction and I need an intervention! I think I just got all the ideas to FINALLY start working on our house that is now 72 years old. I finally invested in a sander. Yes, that is going to be highly necessary for the many wood walls in our house. Remember my wallpaper ripping party post? Yeah, that one. Well, some ignorant fool decided to put this awful mesh backing behind the wallpaper. What is worse...the ignorant fool NAILED this mesh backing into the walls!!! REALLY???!!! For months I kept trying to figure out how to get rid of those awful little strings that were stuck behind all the nails. At the suggestion of a wise person, I started sanding around those nails and VOILA! They finally went away! My next big project in the dining room is to rip down all the awful ceiling tiles that are covering up some beautiful wood ceilings. Sanding that down will be quite the chore. Oh...I forgot to mention that this ignorant fool decided to install baseboards and door trim ON TOP of the wallpaper. Needless to say, I still have wallpaper sticking out from behind my baseboards. So far sanding has helped a bit but not much. I really do not feel like ripping away the baseboards...so much work to do. I got this awesome idea on Pinterest. At first I was going to do away with the hideous chandelier that is hanging over the dining room table. This thing is brass, with lots of little clear plastic pieces hanging all over it. Needless to say it is AWFUL. I am either going to do away with it altogether or try to find some ugly Williamsburg chandelier and repaint it to my liking. Red is my favorite color, you know. :) I have some awesome window treatments that I plan on hanging up as soon as I get done painting the dining room. Now if I can just figure out how to keep my cats from swatting at the beads. I am also hoping to refinish our dining room table. It is still in its original shape. I am thinking I will redo it in black. Of course that idea is from Pinterest as well. :) If I can still think by the time I get home I will post some pics of the BEFORE state of everything. This is definitely going to be a huge project.