A blog of a variety of projects
Projects done to improve, decorate, or repair parts of a house.
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.
My wife and I are fans of Nigel Ng and particularly like his Uncle Roger videos, so my brother Morgan Jones and I made her an orange-polo-shaped MSG shaker as a gift for her birthday.
Our cat, Kiki, likes to sit and look out our front window. This is a replacement catwalk for her that is compatible with our new vinyl windows.
I repaired a credenza and made a pair of shelves to make a dry bar corner.
I installed some Ikea Återsken wall lamps as sconces in our house, which required some new electrical boxes and custom interfacing for the lamps.
This custom laptop stand is angled as steeply as it can be with the screen vertical. It helps to elevate the screen into the user’s field of vision and saves desk space.
Last year we had our bathroom professionally remodeled. One part of the bathroom that I wanted to do myself was to build the new vanity from a cute dresser. We had seen DIY sites with how-to tutorials for converting a wood dresser into a water-resistant vanity, so we went to…
Last summer we started a long process to resurface our kitchen cabinets and counters to make them both more functional and more modern-looking. We started with a plan that we wanted to do something about our ugly cabinets. My best guess is that the previous owner had tried to stain…
Last year we replaced our grass in the backyard with a layer of wood chips to cut down on maintenance. This works really, really well. The wood chips don’t need to be mowed or watered. Every couple years we will have to put another half ton or so of wood…
