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The time has come to turn the nursery into a room for one of the boys. Today Jack and Mom spent some time taking the wallpaper border off the wall.
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...
Edges have been rounded using the router, wood filler applied and sanded to fill in a few gaps and dings. Final sanding complete. Center beam made from 3 boards of maple glued together. Will round the edges with the router to be more comfortable on the feet.
We did a test with our chosen stain on a scrap piece tonight. Stain and initial coat of top coat tomorrow.
This sign originally hung in the Information Booth at the Kent State Student Center throughout the 1990s.
We replaced the fan in the livingroom. It only had one light-bulb and was small, as for a small bedroom. This one really lights up the room. The picture doesn't do the light justice. It really is bright, but I'm uploading the dark version so you can't see all the dust that was on my ceiling!
The plan is to wall off the back corner to make it the utility/storage area. Hanging thedoor is the next step then we need to redo the plumbing a bit.
Day 1 involved planing the boards and attaching pieces to the ends to bring them to the rough final length.
End of the week and not quite picked up - but the curtains are hung. Still may add some glass pull knobs on the end as finials. And of course all the primping of something new - like training the pleats, putting some weighted washers in the hems to hold them down straight.....all the things a grandma would teach you about curtains and drapes.
We cut down our popular boards for trim in our dining room. Joanna primed and painted the boards in the outbuilding.
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.
I used a can of Rustolium to protect the metal. Eventually we'll be restaining the wood and the brown metal won't stick out as much.
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The black grout is in place and I've made an initial cleaning of the whole floor using CLR and a Mr Clean magic eraser. That seems to be the winning combination to get the black grout stains off of the white tiles. I'll mop it tomorrow before dragging the table and storage cabinet back in here. I hate our giant refrigerator.
Rebuilt the shelf over the washing machine from scratch. The old one -- what's left of it is sitting on the washer -- had its backboard crack around where it was bolted to the wall and most of its nails were rotted away. Wish I had a "before" pic showing the old shelf before it fell apart, but the washer and dryer in the garage aren't exactly regular photography subjects.
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...
Ok, it's not exactly a marvel of engineering, but I take certain amount of pride in making this all by myself. The old shelf's backing was two thin boards. Here I opted to go with a single piece of 1/2 inch plywood I had lying around in my garage.
This is basically what sat over the washer for who knows how many years/decades. The two pieces of wood that made up the backboard are gone -- the piece that had the bolts attaching it to the wall cracked, dislodging the shelf. Note the bit of molding on the bottom; I had another large piece of the same molding (unpainted) sitting in my garage's rafters, so I was able to reproduce it on the new shelf. Didn't care for the white paintjob, so I went with a natural waterproof stain.
I spent my entire Sunday replacing the columns on my porch. They were rotting from the bottom and were pretty ugly to begin with. We decided on some colonial style columns from Home Depot. All that's left to do is give them a nice coat of exterior paint. The next project is trying to get my power washer to start. The house is filthy and needs a paint job.
I replaced our leaking faucet and part of the drainpipe today. This was the creature that had been living in the drain. The first two feet of the creature, mind you. The remainder escaped down the sewer pipe and must now be plotting elaborate revenge. I especially recommend a 1:1 zoom if you aren't planning on eating soon. Color and contrast aren't accurately represented since I had to reprocess a lot to fix the exposure. Just imagine it in glistening dark grey, with chunky spurts of black silty water.
The color on this is a little bright since I was using a flash. The reds in our carpet are deeper than it shows.
78 sample splotches of paint. HELP US DECIDE!
Planned Changes:
-Remove wallpaper
-CHOOSE A PAINT COLOR
-Wainscoting below chair rail
-New paint above chair rail
-New fireplace insert (it's gas)
Grandpa came and helped on the third day. We got a lot done but there's probably 2 more day of work left. About half of the remaining sheets can be hung without needing the lift but another rental will be needed at some point.
This is my newly installed toilet flushing. And better yet-- it is flushing without leaks. I had someone help me carry the toilet upstairs-- after that I did all the installation myself.
Fuck yeah! Go toilet go!
The finished paint job. Looks a bit purply sometimes, but I think grey was a good choice with the pink tiles.
Started the flooring in our bedroom which is that last one. We should be able to move back in about 2 weeks.
The lock in our front door has been sort of crappy and prone to sticking since the day we moved in; we've pretty much always used the back door only for the last couple years because we wanted to make sure not to get locked out of our own house.
Until today! Some drilling and some chiseling and some screwdrivering and some futzing and, blammo: a front door we can actually use to leave the house through.