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For years Maria Jordan, the blogger behind Maria Did That, painted and updated almost every room of her house — except the kitchen. “I couldn’t afford the kitchen I wanted so I just lived with a dirty yellow vinyl floor, yellow backsplash (of an unknown material), yellow Formica countertops with scorch marks, and dark wooden cabinets,” she says. At least the dated kitchen had one good thing going for it, Maria points out: decent windows, which often flooded the room with natural light (something even the best renovation can’t always fix).

One day Maria had some friends over to watch a football game, and one of them suggested she replace the flooring with the same material he had used to get his house ready for the market. They were just stick-on tiles, but the suggestion was brilliant and caused something to click for Maria.

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