I’ve been using this method for about a month now and it works like a charm every time!.

And I even love tiling!The problem is that I’d like to rip that counter top out sooner rather than later, and that would damage my tile work, so I’ll just have to wait and see what I can do to make the space a little cozier in the meantime..

So here’s how things are looking in the kitchen now!.What a difference, right?The whole area suddenly seems so much more finished and complete.

The eye is happy!.All I did was paint out the backsplash area with a little bit of paint left in the bottom of a sample pot (and clearly I didn’t even do too detailed of a job) and the difference it makes in the feel of the kitchen is tremendous.

It’s one of those things that just brings out everything else around it.

In fact, one of my mother-in-laws was here the other day and she just now noticed things like the new lighting and the cornices that have been up since February.The sink does get used daily though and I actually clean it out and wipe it down several times a day.

If it gets really in need of a good deep-cleaning itself or if I’ve done something like mopping the floors with it, here’s how I clean it afterwards!.So here’s my sink!.

After being used for cleaning, rinsing off plates and dumping that last little bit of coffee out of the mugs for a few days, it can start to look pretty dingy..I like to start out by filling it up with hot water and a few cups of vinegar.. Really hot water from your tap is often enough for cleaning, but if you really want to give it a good sanitizing, boil a big pot of water and dump that in there.