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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!
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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 :-)
Four of us spent nine hours working on Matt's attic yesterday. We got almost all of the walls drywalled, and a good portion of the ceiling, too. There's still a huge amount of work to be done, though.
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.
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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.
Switching cell phones, so here are all the pictures that were saved from my old one.
I removed all the dark, dusty and falling apart plantation shutters from the kitchen and dining room. This was a before picture.
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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
Finally, after nearly 7 years of living in this house I got around to removing the carpeting from our bathroom. Carpeted bathrooms are disgusting and it was made worse as we added 2 kids to the family. The first step was to remove the carpeting, padding and the toilet. I found some water damage under the carpeting by the bathtub. I cut out the worse offending parts and replaced them. Here you can see where I cut out a section with the saw.
Once upon time, in a quiet village, stood a small bungalow, which suffered from neglect because its owners didn't have any money to maintain it properly. A sign "for sale" had been standing in the front garden for a very long time, but nobody was interested since the bungalow was of very modern design, which was a sharp contrast to the rest of the historic village. Day after day the wood rotted away and nature slowly took over the garden, until only a complete make-over could help the bungalow to survive...