I hate my kitchen.  Just in case you didn't understand, I hate my kitchen!

 I hate pretty much everything about it.  I live in a pretty nice house that is only a couple of years old and I feel really stupid and somewhat wasteful in really talking about re-doing it.  There is really nothing wrong with it other than being on my bad side.  So short of ripping out the entire room, I am choosing to focus on some of the smaller cosmetic issues.

So... what can I do?

Initially I taught myself how to put up tiles as a backsplash.  They are beautiful tiles, and I was proud that I figured it out and it looked good...BUT it just wasn't the look I wanted.  I have since realized that though I love my beautiful, Mediterannean-style dishes, attempting to coordinate the tiles to them has been a failure.

The room is open to the main floor of the house where the colors are pretty earthy, to a degree.  The walls a boring taupe (lessons learned from having to repaint last house to sell) with secondary colors of greens and purples.  The beautiful light blue just doesn't go.

But then I learn that you just can't take down tile after you've grouted it to the wall.  You pretty much then have to redo the drywall, and I hate doing drywall.   I'm really not a perfectionist in most of my projects and drywall ends up looking like a monkey did it when I'm thru with it.

SO.... I searched around the home depot one day and ended up in the bath section.  I found a thin, plastic sheet that was about 6ft x 12 ft and cost under $15.  It has a semi-slick side and a rough side, and is also make of recycled plastics.

I cut this piece to fit over top of the tile.  It is easy to cut... I scored it with my knife and then it just pops at the cut.  I cut out where the outlets and light switches are located.  I did have Mr. B pull out the outlets a bit as the tile and this layer stick out a bit more than normal.

I then adhere it to the wall with a latex kind of adhesive using the caulk gun. 
When it is on the wall, I then put up some wallpaper.  It sticks well, and matches the rest of the house much better.

I then caulk around the edges to give it a nice, finished look. 

If nothing else, it helps my crazy level to drop a couple of points.

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