February is my favorite month here in Arizona. If you are searching for the world's most perfect weather, you'll find it at my house these days. We had to drive out to Gold Canyon yesterday, and I snapped this photo of my favorite Arizona mountains, the Superstitions, on our way. Aren't they beautiful? Anyway, come visit.
If you need me this weekend you can find me with the windows and doors wide open, listening to the Les Miserables soundtrack on repeat while I scrape the 35 year old linoleum off the floor in our little office. I've been working on it for a week, and not making much progress, so hopefully I can finish it up. Let me give you some advice: if you have linoleum anywhere in your house, leave it be. Cover it. Don't attempt to take it out! Even if the corners are curling up and it looks like it will be a cinch. I have done many home improvement projects in my life, but this is the worst. The worst!
Happy weekend!
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I have black/white checkerboard linoleum in my kitchen that I'm dying to replace. I can't cover it up. I have to rip it up and replace it. It sounds like I'll have to get some helpers. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI too have removed old lino. I found the only way was to use a "heat gun" to warm the tiles and then use a wide scraper to get underneath them to lift them up in bits as you heat. Still a slow job but it worked in a whole large kitchen! Good luck from Australia
ReplyDeleteWes striped linoleum off our floors in Mesa. I'm still hearing about it, two houses later.
ReplyDeleteamazing picture! it IS so beautiful there and I love the photos you take to capture that beauty:)
ReplyDeleteI grew up in Arizona, and this makes me miss it so much.
ReplyDeletewe used to so very close to those mountains..Great pic Stephanie!
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