My attic bedroom came with a real lighting challenge: there wasn’t any. My electrician said it wouldn’t be simple to run a light over the stairs because we’d have to tear up the ceiling, and with the curved walls, it would be terrible to repair. So I lived with sad lighting for a year and then came up with a …
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We’re taking a break from tracking the kitchen progress to jump up a few floors to my attic bedroom and the lack of progress up there. Some more kitchen progress should be coming your way soon. I’ve basically ignored my bedroom since ripping out the carpet and painting everything last summer. In the last few weeks, I’ve realized this is pretty …
Keep ReadingKitchen Progress: Bye, Cabinet
After we tore out the drop ceiling, I tricked my parents into staying longer and helping me tear out this built in cabinet. The cabinet had an outlet in it and should have been a nice appliance storage place, but it was blocking access to the refrigerator and made the kitchen feel even more functionally obsolete.
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Kitchen Progress: Removing a Kitchen Drop Ceiling
View PostThe Fence Saga Part 4: Finishing Touches
Congrats, you made it to the final fence post! We left off after Part 3 with all of the panels fully stained. Next, we(mostly my dad, I was moving dirt around) used a circular saw and Sawzall to cut down the posts to be the right height and I added a little extra stain to the top to protect the wood.
Keep ReadingThe Fence Saga Part 3: Installation
Sorry for the delay on part 3, I was processing the election information and needed to crawl into a hole for a while. I’m back now, and after making some donations to the ACLU I’m ready to share more about my fence. While Katie, Nathan, and my mom were staining panels, my dad and I got to work measuring for …
Keep ReadingThe Fence Saga Part 2: Staining
Welcome to The Fence Saga Part 2. Part 1 left off with a freshly laminated building permit, a giant pile of dirt, and a mix of old and new fence panels. A couple of the old panels looked salvageable, so I tried a test patch of stain on them to see if it would sort of match the stained fence along …
Keep ReadingThe Fence Saga Part 1: Lakewood, Ohio Permits
The Fence Saga Part 1: Lakewood, Ohio Permits
View PostDining Room: Before
From a few steps back, the dining room didn’t seem to be in bad shape, but upon further inspection, it was just as much work as the living room, if not more work. Let’s get into it:
Keep ReadingThe Upstairs Bathroom: Before
The Crystal Palace has 1.5 baths, but the .5 is in the basement and doesn’t get much use. Once again, the colors really wow in this room. Here is the main bathroom, in all its neon glory. If it’s an aggressive color, Linda liked it.
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