A blog of a variety of projects
Projects done to improve, decorate, or repair parts of a house.
We are in the process of remodeling our kitchen (which will be its own story when it is done). One of the huge improvements was replacing our kitchen sink with a deep aluminum apron sink. It is very similar to a farmhouse sink, except for 2 things. First: it weighs significantly…
At this point, I’ve been fully converted to an Ikea engineering fanboy, (he said, sitting in an Ikea chair under an Ikea lamp). I don’t much like the experience of shopping at Ikea and prefer to buy used furniture supporting local thrift stores, but the Ikea design-for-manufacturing engineering is damn…
While we’re sheltering in place, I took some time to clean up the garage by hanging the things that wasted the most space: the bikes and the skis. The bike rack hangers are not innovative, I just purchased them from Amazon. The plates of the bike hooks just mount straight…
This is a very simple and quick project. The whole thing took about 10 minutes, given that I already had the lamp, carved pumpkin, and cloak. I keep some of these Ikea floor lamps around because they are simple and useful. I usually buy extras when we go to Ikea…
After our dogs dug up all the grass in our backyard and we had two gigantic trees removed, we decided to build a seating area for a fire pit. The yard is covered in wood chips for the dogs, so it needed to be big enough to prevent a stray…
The Neopixel RGB Visualizer project page is up with more detail about the project than is on GitHub. Check it out here. I didn’t publish a post related to this project, since the site went up right at the end of it, so I am publishing this retroactive plug for…
This was the first Halloween that we celebrated in our new house! With that in mind, we made the groundwork for 2 multi-holiday decorations that we will reuse for each holiday. We used picture wire, but any kind of hanger will work to get these hung up on a wall…
This project started with 10 second-hand office cabinets purchased from Ben’s Repurposed Cabinetry in Loveland, Colorado. The set of 10 frameless base cabinets ran $295 and was delivered right into the garage. I flipped them over, removed their feet, and installed shorter ones. The cabinets were a bit tall for…
