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Final product. The big ugly lesser-used stuff like the Dustbuster and the drill battery are behind the cabinet door. Phones and iPods in the little cubby, with some tabletop to spare!
Martin designed and constructed this add on for our Ikea cabinet- it has 5 shelves for spices, a towel rack, pegs for utensils, and a magazine bin. I helped with the design, but mostly I did the finishing work.
I love our window seat (not as much as our cats), but rarely sit in it. It's kinda awkward and uncomfortable. Chris never sits there.
Our neighbor was nice enough to offer some new trees for a privacy wall. He planted the 4 line trees today.
After placing the dumpster in front of the garage I called the siding installation folks. They reached out to the dumpster company and it was moved the next morning.
faux wall in front of DLP rear projection TV (Mitsh); speaker grill in the middle for the center; drapes on the side cover componets, front speakers, media storage, and a closet.
After I finished Jessie's room, I jumped straight into doing Sydney's room. Just finished it this past weekend. She loves it! This time around I was able to get the chair rails done in 2 days . I've gotten pretty damn good at cutting and installing those. Two weekdays I might add. I only got to work on them an hour or two each day before and after work. Otherwise i could have knocked them out in 3 or 4 hours. :)
As soon as I finished Sydney's room on Saturday, I jumped straight into installing crown molding in our living room. What was I thinkin?!? Crown molding is way tougher than chair rails...that's for sure.
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...
So we picked up a cheap bedside table at Ikea with a thin back, and drilled a couple of holes to run the wires through.
Terra went nuts with the dremel.
Space underneath the table hides the power strip.
Update: Later on, we decided that tucking the bulky strip under the table was too messy, so we made another hole in the back of the table near the cabinet area and stowed the power strip in the cabinet as well.
Then, you can either modify the shelf to make room for the wires to run up to it, or use the holes in the back to run the cables out the bottom and in the top.
A cardboard box was holding up all our charging gadgets, from phones to iPods to cameras to drill batteries to the DustBuster.
First step of putting down new flooring is removing the old. Both boys helped. Jack helped inside while Billy used the tractor to haul the removed pieces to the fire pit.
My nice new office! That desk is from Target, and is temporary-ish. D wants to eventually build me one.
Note new window frames for the skylights. (Not the best pic to show them, but you can at least see they're different)
It is so nice to see the light fixtures in the room after having it sitting in the attic for over a year :D
Painting sucks. Once our seismic retrofit finally wrapped, we painted all weekend, and all we did was prime our now-retrofit guest room. It was basically a month to finish our whole downstairs. Crabby Lisa.
The finished paint job. Looks a bit purply sometimes, but I think grey was a good choice with the pink tiles.
I had this notion in my head that I wanted a couple of those Asian-inspired benches, which seem to primarily come in 24" and 29"-30" heights. They're rather popular among chair makers, I've had no problem finding these in stores. The problem was that half the places I've looked offer them for $30 but the quality is such that you think they're going to need to be replaced in a year or two. (I am a believer in what I call the IKEA Test -- if a piece of furniture on display can't survive being manhandled by a hundred people every day, it's probably not going to survive in your home for as long as you need it to.) On the other side of the spectrum, the really well-crafted ones cost about $100, give or take $25. There has got to be some middle ground, and while they are pretty reasonably priced online there's no way of seeing how durable they are. And what's so wrong with a light brown color? Most are black, white, or deep brown.
So my search took me to Ross Dress For Less on South Hill, which on a holiday weekend is truly a freakshow, because they have some nice furniture. And there one was! Okay, technically two, because there was a white one next to it but it had a broken footrail. Bought the black one. There are three Ross stores within a 15 mile radius, so how about I roll the dice and see if I can find another? Twenty minutes later I'm at the Ross on 38th, and there's another! Score!
They were made by Thomasville Furniture so they're of good quality, and the Ross price is $30 (down from $50).
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To consider Lowe's you have to look at both Home Depot and OSH. In my mind, HD focuses on those who are building something new or significant while OSH focuses on living in an existing space and doing minor repairs or improvements. Lowe's has found a spot just between HD and OSH. Lowe's is large like HD (bigger than any OSH I know) and yet has a nice balance of product filling the needs of both HD and OSH customers. At Lowe's I can buy a table lamp and all of the electrical stuff you could need. Lowe's is the closest to one-stop shopping for a typical home owner.
The store is clean, well organized and signed, a vast selection of stuff and the right number of people running around to help you. All-in-all, yep, I am a fan.
Another gander at the completed tile backsplash layout, stickup complete and grouting happens tomorrow.
To consider Lowe's you have to look at both Home Depot and OSH. In my mind, HD focuses on those who are building something new or significant while OSH focuses on living in an existing space and doing minor repairs or improvements. Lowe's has found a spot just between HD and OSH. Lowe's is large like HD (bigger than any OSH I know) and yet has a nice balance of product filling the needs of both HD and OSH customers. At Lowe's I can buy a table lamp and all of the electrical stuff you could need. Lowe's is the closest to one-stop shopping for a typical home owner.
The store is clean, well organized and signed, a vast selection of stuff and the right number of people running around to help you. All-in-all, yep, I am a fan.
Now, to move the stove. And the washer & drier. But anyhow, progress is being made. It's all the pieces I have to cut to size because of cabinets and such that are slowing me down. Gotta keep them lines straight...
Candice Olson uses this stuff all the time, though never mentions it by name (thus it's not clear if she's using Marmoleum Click which is available on order in flooring stores or Easy Loc which is available in-stock at Home Depot stores in her native Canada). But is it her that puts it in, or is it one of her many assistants?