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$54 toilet, baby. We replaced the handle with a much nicer one to make it feel more expensive. It's also smaller, which is nice with space at a premium. 4 inches narrower and protruding 4 inches less into the bathroom. The bathroom is small enough that it's noticeably easier to get to the shower.
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...
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...
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...
My plans for the day were to maybe do a little yardwork, scan an old magazine... basically nothing important beside cleaning the gutters for better rain/snow drainage while it's dryish out.
My cat Cheddar Meatloaf has not been consistant about using the litterbox for his urinary needs, I could tell by the smell of the familyroom, so I went looking for the source of the whiz smell. (Please don't say "maybe he's getting old" -- he's 12, yes, but he's been using a particular corner of the familyroom on a random basis since he was 4. Blame previous homeowners who had a pet who also used that corner.) I’ve taken many measures to make that corner and the bookcase in it inhospitable, or at the least get the stuff off the bottom shelf so he doesn’t ruin them (I lost an old dictionary once because of that). Yeah, there’s new wee stains. I pull out the bookshelf and hope IKEA has replacement pieces because the wood and veneer are warped. (Likely will just replace the bookshelf entirely… eventually.)
So I figure I can cut out the carpet. The stains go down to the plywood panel subfloor, and happily my familyroom is a former garage so I know there’s concrete underneath I think so cutting out the wood is an option. But the stains keep going, and some are wet. I move the small freezer that's in the middle of the wall past where I've been investigating, and discover the freezer has been leaking or dropping condensation underneath so now I have cat piss AND mold, and have to cut out far more of the wood and carpet than intended… I have planned to take everything out of the room and take up the carpet sometime to lay a new floating floor, but not at this moment! MUST STOP WORKING ON THIS!
So I’ve sprinkled baking soda on the wood to do something about the smell and make it less interesting for the cat (I’ve already caught him rolling on the wood once!) and will get back to this when I’m better prepared… and I’m not giving up my road trip next Saturday to the Central Washington State Fair for this! The freezer has been emptied and put on the back porch, leading to the wild hare in the rear thought "hey, how about buying a new freezer?" Had to put my frozen food somewhere, you know. And thus I bought a 5 cu.ft. replacement on sale which for now sits in the diningroom blocking the sliding glass door, along with a Dremel Multi-Max (the $99 version of the $400 Fein MasterBater Multimaster seen in infomercials) so I can cut the floor out. The box for my new GE deepfreeze unfolded into the perfect size to cover the bare damp fetid wood.
260/365
This spring/summer is going to be all about the home improvement. There is a list. There is a Very Long List. Currently at 37 items, down from over 40.
Probably the biggest task on it is to paint the house. I think we are going to do it ourselves, to save some money. Has anyone ever painted their house's exterior? We're going to borrow a couple of sprayers and a compressor. I'm a little scared of how big the job might be, though.
The chips above are one of the color schemes we are contemplating.
Higher, brighter, less ugly, and more storage than the old one. We plan to paint all of the cabinets white to match the shelf and hood.
Rooms To Go still has to deliver one without a scratch (we're on try 4) but this is what it looks like now. We moved the rug from the living room into the dining area under this table.
As part of the effort (since we were patching and painting), we (finally, at long last) removed the brackets for the old baby gates. Our little girl is all grown up!
We were warned by the gentleman we bought our secondhand Rainbow Playset from that weed wackers will take their toll on the wood. He had done his best but over the 7 years he owned it the wood had taken a beating in spots. My solution is to add some protection to the most vulnerable areas, mainly the legs.
I bought some 22 guage steel from Home Depot and using a grinding wheel cut it into strips/pieces to fit around the base of the legs. I made each piece only 3" tall figuring it's only there to protect it from a weed wacker hitting it. I only protected 3 of the 4 sides and attached each piece with 4 wood screws.
This is the bare metal after the initial installation.
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If I haven't said it before: The agent at the flooring store where this was ordered was not very knowledgeable about her product line. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with the two big pieces of metal rail she sold me since she didn't order anything to put on it (T-molding or reducer for doorways).
Anyhow, here's what it looks like after laying down five rows. It's kind of hard on the hands to lay down because I haven't quite figured the secret to making click tile "click"... some pieces snap down in a jiffy, some I have to fight with for a minute to get it to go down, and then there's that whole matter of how you click together a whole row then make it (by lifting the whole row!) attach to the previous row. Those are rubber mallet marks on the vinyl at left, yes indeed.
Anyhow, it's going well when the momentum flows. And I do hope and pray (see "woman did not know her product line") that I have enough tiles to finish this, since the room is 9½ feet across and the tiles are 12 inches square, thus I have to cut a bunch of these tiles to get them to fit. Did she order by total area, or by the room's length and width rounded up to the nearest foot? (They are NOT the same number, geometry majors.) I shall see, won't I?
The finished paint job. Looks a bit purply sometimes, but I think grey was a good choice with the pink tiles.
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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...
Early fillage of the closet side -- bins on the floor for each family member's shoes, plus vacuum cleaner, plus bins above.
Technically I skipped a few steps, but you didn't really want to see me move a whole lot of books and bookcases, rip out carpet and tackstrips, put underlayment down over the subfloor... Here's the completed tile job. There's still a need for trim around the room, and I should have pulled in the shelves and such before night fell, but anyhow here it is.
And it wasn't until I looked at this picture that I noticed there is one entire column that does not contain any Eternity grey tiles, not one. That wasn't planned, so now I'm laughing.
The first day with the lift was mostly used to move the upper 2x4 cross members to align with the installation of the plywood sheets. A few additional ones were needed at the top of the south wall. 2x4s were "borrowed" from the loft for these.
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...