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We're finally underway with the garden, today has been all about me providing tea whilst the gardeners rotovate, rake, dig and cement in the new border. It's looking great!
Just the turf to go down tomorrow and we'll have a lovely revamped garden :-)
Our nearly completed new office in the basement. It's hard to get a good picture because of its size. Here is the new door which needs to be primed and painted and the bright scarlet wall. The high outlets are for a future TV to be hung there. OSU colors for the office! Awesome!
after a months-long struggle with lack of motivation and paint stripper, the bike room is painted! and the nasty carpet has been removed! now all that's left is to sand and paint the window frames, the windows themselves, pull & paint the baseboards, nail in some quarter round trim, and either re-finish the floor or call it 'done'.
With our fabulous diner booth! We're keeping the booth and the diner table, though we may reupholster the booth, because there are some large tears in the vinyl.
Planned Changes:
-New refrigerator (on its way 10.27.07)
-Remove parquet and refinish hardwoods beneath
-New counter tops
-New cook top
-Remove double ovens and create panty
-Remove lazy susan beneath cooktop and install wall oven
-PAINT
Always one to help with any home project, Billy is constantly rearranging the needed tools around the room. He loves to grab a fist full of screws or nails and put them where he thinks they need to go.
Removing worn-our or rotting porch timbers to determine what can be saved and what has to be replaced.
Laminate IKEA dresser drawers redone with a coat of the most amazing primer ever (Zinsser), antique white latex paint, orange fleur de lis stencils, and some inexpensive drawer pulls. Total: about $18 (primer, paint, hardware, stencil, stencil adhesive)
I found the paint and stencil on clearance and they were exactly what I was looking for!
Using an oil based sealant paint I painted the walls that will eventually be framed over for our new office. The can of paint clearly said to work in a well ventilated area and they weren't kidding. This paint has powerful fumes to say the least. Unfortunately 1 gallon of paint wasn't even enough to cover the area once and it needs 2 coats. We're going to wait a bit before doing anymore. PU!
...eating her turds away.
Image du jour: Over my kitchen sink, joining the two cupboards, is this soffet with a light inside. It's never worked as long as I've been here (probably dead bulb but with the overhead light three feet away it's redundant anyhow) and when I was installing the ceiling patch/fixture boxes I cut the electrical wiring to it. I do like the ceramic base, implying this is original to the house. (The lack of stupid yellow paint on the wall side furthers this belief.)
Now, the questions come: Shall I leave this soffet, or shall I take it down? Is there a chance this soffet hides some screwup the Crackheads™ made, or does it predate them? If I take it out, I can I put some good ambient lighting in this place -- or no lighting at all (and I don't suck too hard at drywall patching...)? Can the ceiling and wall be cleaned up, since they look a little grubby? Can I do this without destroying the ceiling and walls, or gouging up the two adjoining cupboards?
I'm still thinking on it. I have plenty of other stuff to do, but since stripping the cupboards is the next thing on the list (the doors are nearly done) I'll have to decide soon.
Joanna got a gift card to buy fancy new shelving for her closet. We bought the materials a few weeks ago and while I was working on the bathroom she started working on her project. She was able to pull the old shelving, patch up the wall and install the main support beam in the first day.
This area will be radically changing soon once Chris moves into his new office space. And that chair needs reupholstering.
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After: This area of the basement was transformed into a large Master Bedroom and includes an oversize walk-in closet. Recessed lighting and separately controlled ceiling fan add a nice touch.
I had some work done on our shower years ago, and I left it unfinished, because I had no energy to go through figuring out what else to do. My spouse took on the project, picking out the floor, vanity, and mirror. We shopped in antique stores and (gasp!) The Mall to get some of the other accoutrements. My contribution was the wall color, which is the same as the tiles that we removed from all around the wall.
He did a great job, and we are both really happy to have a bathroom without holes in the walls anymore.
Improving the home is like improving our life. It makes us happy and contributes to the betterment of our lives.
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I'm trying to put a new electrical outlet in the kitchen. I have cut the rectangular hole in the wall and stuck a fluorescent light into it so I can find the space between the walls from the attic. I can see the blue light through the crevices between the drywall sections when I move the insulation aside, and they're narrow so I must drill. Drill I do. But the light that comes out of the hole, despite it being in line with the blue light from the fluorescent, is yellow. Uh... Apparently it went through at an angle, into my livingroom.
Yes, I own a pint of spackle and (I think) I have more of this paint color in the can... arrrgh. The scene was much funnier when I had two feet of Romex wire hanging out the hole.