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Love that gray-taupe color on the bedroom walls. Color please?

I've been pondering whether to paint our bulky oak staircase, which currently has a dark and alligatoring stain. A friend cautioned me against it, saying that it's one thing to paint over a flat surface-- easy to strip later. But any kind of detailed molding is impossible to get back to its original state. Something to ponder.

I totally identify with Leah here-- we too bought a lovely house, about a year ago, and it has mysteriously horrible teal and purple floor tile in the downstairs bathroom. Granted, it's not slate, like this tile (which is not nearly as bad)-- it's regular ceramic tile, but still I fantasize about painting it all the time. Mainly because when you search for "how to remove ceramic tile" you find a bunch of people talking about how absolutely awful and ill-advised it is to try to remove tile. Thus, the tile has stayed...and the fantasies continue.

Ain't that the truth. What I find the hardest though, is when people share their "budget-friendly" projects with gorgeous results, and then they reveal the actual numbers, and I realize that such a makeover is still not compatible with MY budget. That's gotta be the hardest part about homeownership... the stuff you can't make happen, either due to cost, or the level of skill involved in doing it yourself (everyone else seems to have a talented uncle with lots of free time...).