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The hall bathroom in our 1983 house needed a little facelift, and while it's still not ideal, it's miles better than it started out!
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Now maybe Bis won't mess up the rug every time she tears through the living room chasing whatever it is she chases.
Inspired by how nicely the fan in the livingroom went up, I'm going to replace the light in my office (10'x12' room that faces the sun so it gets really warm really quickly even on overcast days or in the middle of the night), which is one of those things contractors buy for $5, with a lighted fan.
It's very nice that Harbor Breeze also has replacement light kits, so that the fru-fru weak lights that come with the fan can be upgraded to actual lighting. I'm also replacing the utility box because somehow I don't think that the fixture-holder in the ceiling which was mounted in 1959 is being held in place by anything sturder than two threepenny nails. This fan weighs 8kg, which isn't heavy by fan standards but exceeds the rating of the existing box. I also got a new switch that can control both the light and the fan in one plate so I don't have to cut a hole in the wall for another switch. (And they charge for that perk. A second gang box, switch, and switchplate would cost 1/5 of this one double switch.)
Installation next Tuesday.
Painting the bathroom walls today, even though we've tropical-storm-induced cloudbursts coming through every so often.
The shade looks darker/better on the walls than it does on my nails.
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The hall bathroom in our 1983 house needed a little facelift, and while it's still not ideal, it's miles better than it started out!
More details here
Quite a contrast from the last picture of the basement, eh? It helps that I hired a company to do the drywall work. It probably would have taken me until next year, and it wouldn't have been as good.
Purdy. Just don't look down where I'm standing because this room needs another 25 tiles to finish it. ;-) Trim around the base of the walls comes next.
the new fridge floats in the hallway just as the old one did. Note it is conspicuously larger, and also that the walls behind and underneath it are no longer purple.
One of the 4 under-cabinet trim installations. The wires for the eventual under-cabinet lights were run early on in the kitchen remodel.
We have this ridiculous old concrete slab in our side yard -- it's where the old landing for a stairway used to be (this has been moved since the house was renovated).
Anyway, it's a huge tripping hazard in the dark and when I try to move trash cans in and out. I figure it's time to remove it. I rented a demolition hammer from Home Depot and went to work. That thing is FUN.
Today mom stopped by and helped put up the wallpaper border for the nursery. We called in the expert for our wallpaper project.
The hall bathroom in our 1983 house needed a little facelift, and while it's still not ideal, it's miles better than it started out!
More details here
I am fortunate to currently be living next to an Audubon-protected nature preserve. Across the large, cattail- and wildlife-inhabited pond lies a grove of trees, within which resides an eagle's nest. On two other occasions, I've seen an eagle hauling a huge branch to the nest, but never had my camera with me. This morning, I totally lucked out :-)
We've hated the baseboard since the day we moved in. I finally mustered up the motivation to start removing it.
All we need to do is borrow a miter saw and actually decide on some new trim and I can start putting it in. We're going to need about 390 feet. The great thing about it is that I can just spend a couple hours on it every day, and it's not a big deal if it takes a while. As long as it doesn't take a long while.
In response to request for updates on remodling project. Living room, dining room, hallway, & master bedroom have had 30+year old biege wall-to-wall carpeting replaced with pergo flooring. Much healthier.
All but 2 small pieces of the lower row are hung. The other exception is the sheets going on the framed rooms. That could be done later without a lift. It will also allow more light into the main room by not closing off 2 windows.
Our first big project is done!
This room is directly outside our bedroom. Of the tasks performed, we:
-Replaced light fixture with ceiling fan
-Replaced blinds
-Patched all holes and painted the walls "Kalamata"
-Replaced outlets and faceplates with white ones
-Installed recessed directional halogens and put them on a dimmer switch
-4"x3/4" baseboards
A pair of these: www.bernhardt.com/upholsteryDetail.php?id=343 will be adorning the right side of this picture in a few days.
Bridge, almost complete. Needs a few more screws, but it works now.
Home improvement pictures are probably viewed best from the "taken on" archive; link: www.flickr.com/photos/jsf/archives/date-taken/2006/calendar/
Since I inherited the buffet from my granny, I thought it was only fitting to display the russian nesting doll she brought me back from one of her trips to Russia.
The canvas is ready... now to paint.
Turns out I had another piece of cement backerboard that I could have made the window interior pieces from, but not enough for the top so I still would have wound up spending $10.50 for a full sheet (since the store didn't have any smaller or partials). There'll be other projects, no doubt.
Must now check my mastic supply.
So, status report, the drawers are painted and have handles and have been put back into their slots -- which was not as easy as you'd think because I found out the builder had put the slide rails in the left drawer completely wrong (why would the left one slope diagonally upward?) so they weren't even being used. A little trim painting needs to be done, but then it's good.
They don't match? Au contraire. My drawer fronts are all the same size and correctly placed. The originals weren't. And the holes aren't straight either, ergo the drawer fronts being at different levels. As long as they're in and work. If someone wants to fix them in the future, they can have a stab at it.