A blog of a variety of projects
Projects done to improve, decorate, or repair parts of a house.
Since we moved to Fort Collins, our garage has been a big mess waiting for me to work on it. Last year, while I was working on the adjacent bathroom, I finally started on it, and now I’m finally writing about it. Once my permit application was approved (City of…
This was a huge, months-long project to remodel the bathroom on the main level of our house.
We’re currently remodeling the bathroom on the first floor of our house. Part of that remodel will include putting wallpaper on the upper half of the wall, which is something I had never done before. To make sure I am comfortable doing it, we decided to apply wallpaper to the…
This is a simple little shim to help mount a door hinge slightly further away from the door frame stop moulding.
Since we have moved in to our new house, I have been putting off finishing the kitchen cabinets with trim. I finally got around to working on it and finished the floor molding. First, there is a gap between the pantry and the wall. The wall wasn’t plumb, so we…
When we moved into our new house, we were downsizing a bit. Until we get around to finishing the basement, the finished space will be about 60% of our old house. It is nice to have less house to work on and clean, but we were anxious about storage space…
This was a long time ago now, but we have been too busy on uninteresting repair projects for me to be able to keep up with blogging. I started writing this near the end of last year, when our kitchen was nearly done. We have been living with it at…
This project was huge, and it required so much work that there was no way I could have gotten it done myself. We hired a general contractor to demolish the ceiling, build the new wall, and redo the electrical wiring in the kitchen, while I focused on removing the existing…
I was looking around our house for things to fix, and I saw a lot of places where there was a small hole in the drywall caused by a door handle. I was going to patch all of these with drywall, but I knew it would eventually happen again, even…
I decided to re-tile our guest bathroom myself and hire a refinishing company to refinish the bathtub. I finished this project about a month ago, but I’ve been too busy at the other house to write it up until now.
