A blog of a variety of projects
Projects done to improve, decorate, or repair parts of a house.
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.
I’m falling behind on blog posts about house projects. There has been a lot going on, and we have been making quite a bit of quick progress. Starting a couple weeks ago and ending last week I have been working on demolishing our new kitchen. The cabinets were old and…
Closet doors are often built with dummy doorknobs that look and feel like a normal doorknob without the internal pieces that would rotate and move a latch. They usually look just like the normal handle but they can only be installed on a door without a hole because you use…
Over the last month or so I have been working on routing data cables through our house so that every room is connected to a switch, router, and modem in our basement utilities room. It was a lot of work, but the result is that we now have 2 RJ45…
At the end of last year we fixed some issues that had been bothering us in our bedroom. We stripped the popcorn off our bedroom ceiling, repainted everything, and replaced all the trim. This is the second room we have done this in now, and I didn’t initially intend to…
We have a Yamaha player piano that I have been using off and on for around 15 years. It needed some work to maintain the hammers and make sure it can record correctly.
In the winter, the window well right next to my desk tends to fill with snow, and the area near the window where I work becomes unpleasantly cold. Our house had steel mesh window well covers to keep animals out, but this year I decided to replace them with clear…
My office is a small desk against a window in between two cabinets, so I 3D-printed some brackets to hang the pegboard from the cabinets, as well as a couple useful things to hang on them.
