This past autumn, my city decided they weren’t going to pick up the leaves that fall into the street in my neighbourhood. Normally they come by once each year after
Category: House stuff
Poe Pillow
I finished this project in December but just managed to deliver it to its intended recipients — it was a wedding gift for Ruby Nite and her now-husband — last
Ah, destruction
We started to bash up the hideous, much-hated cabinets from our ex-kitchen (well, more of a “kitchen” really) in the back bedroom. YAY. I haven’t flung any chunks out the
Of record collections and cabinetry
Quotation of the Day for June 30, 2008 “It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t
Larval kitchen
Kitchens, at least, ours, have a larval form, in which they appear in vast numbers (159, to be exact) of bags and boxes:
An overexcited post about drywall.
Once upon a time a long long time ago there was a downstairs kitchen in our house. It looked something like this: …and despite its extreme ugliness when we bought
Numbers
55: Approximate weight of a sheet of 1/2″ x 4′ x 8′ drywall, in pounds. 9: Height in feet of our kitchen ceiling 639: Approximate number of muscles in the
Very sensible advice.
Quotation of the Day for October 7, 2007 “Fix what you can. Call the rest authentic.” – Sarah Graves, offering home renovation hints in her novel Trap Door.
Grubby, but not crabby
The water heater is busted. Happily, though, it’s busted in a way that has not (has not yet, let’s not tempt fate) leaked water anywhere. Also happily, it’s a rental
Penance
Quotation of the Day for January 5, 2007: “I’ve been waist-deep in a dead hippopotamus, and I’d rather do that than change diapers.” – Eric Humphries, production manager at Skulls
Why I’m always so tired after vacations
Errands. I spend my vacations doing errands, cleaning the house, and — inevitably — painting things. Today we (minus Maddy, who spent the day happily playing at daycare since she
Drywall!
Drywall! Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. Much progress in the bathroom: real, modern wiring (now mostly hidden); insulation (also now mostly hidden); plywood on the bits that will have wainscotting and
What passes for New Year’s fun at our house
We raised, if not the roof, the second floor of our house by a centimetre or so. (Not by partying, sadly.) Safety-Averse Former Owner (SAFO) decided that cutting great huge
Kitchen destruction
Thanks to the tool of power, courtesy Lee Valley …our downstairs Once and Future Kitchen is about as empty as it can ever get. Now we can rebuild it with