Archive for the 'Home Improvement' Category

Doorstops! Glorious Doorstops!

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

There are no more 2×4 blocks behind doors keeping them from denting and making holes in walls in our home! Kylene and I went to Menards, armed with a $10 off coupon, and outfitted all the doors in the house with doorstops. It’s amazing. I also picked up six 3″ wide white handles to use [...]

Nursery Done!

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Thursday night I managed to finish putting up the trim in the Nursery. In four days I had it cleaned out, torn up, painted (5 times over), and put back together. I deprived myself of more sleep than I should have, and I spent yesterday catching up. Tonight I’ll probably hit the hay a little [...]

It’s never as easy as it seems.

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

The last two days have been a blur. Yesterday after work I came home, ate, changed clothes, taped off everything in the nursery (as it will henceforth be called), and started painting. It quickly became apparent that we had a couple of problems regarding paint selection. #1: The paint was way too yellow. It was [...]

Nursery: Ceiling is fine, walls get painted tomorrow.

Monday, October 20th, 2008

The ceiling looks fine (so far), and we don’t see any reason to re-paint it. I spent the night cleaning out the room the rest of the way, tore out the old (nasty colored) trim, filled all the holes in the walls, and took off the outlet faceplates. Tomorrow we sand, vacuum, and paint! Muhuhahahaaaa!