weekend projects...

We are still in the midst of little projects here and there...   What is wrong with this picture?  Well, apparently the previous owner needed some electricity somewhere else and decided to cut the insulation off of these wires and just wind the new wire around it... brilliant? or stupid?  Code says STUPID!!

 

Let's take a closer look...

uh huh....

We really needed to fix a problem in the living room.  We both have laptops...Mine sits on the cedar chest when plugged in...Rich was sitting his on an end table across the room from the couch (where he typically uses it) and using a long white double ended extension cord...which dragged under the table, under a chair and across the room to the couch.  I hated it...I was always tripping over it.  There is no other plug nearer so we decided to add one in the floor underneath the end table between our couches..  Luckily we have an open basement so it's very easy to get electric from one place to another.

First you buy this...and even though it says all instructions are inside..they aren't...

and then you measure once..measure twice...and cut a hole in the floor

and we now have a little less mess..  That white cord hanging down from the top of the table is my camera cord. I didn't notice it was hanging there until I uploaded the photo...And I moved the table back to get the photo...when the table is in the right place you can't even see the plug.  And we are in the middle of finding a small brown extension cord to use.  These outlets only come with one outlet so to plug in a lamp AND the computer we need it.   We looked three places yesterday and can't find one..  OH...he also fixed the mess of the electric before..but I am just too tired to go down there and take a photo..Trust me it's up to code now..

This is the before view from my sewing room..

and the AFTER view...  Do you see anything different?

Rich hung my bird feeder...He got it for me for Christmas and I hope to attract all kinds of birds to watch while I sew...

He made a little pulley system so I can go let it down, fill it up and pull it back up again... He's so smart!!

This is why the bird feeder is a good idea...  Cat hiding behind cat feeder on left...bird feasting on bird feed on right...  No birds (or cats) have been harmed yet...but it was only a matter of time..

Nancy

the latest project...

Heat in the son's bedroom.  I know...maybe we should have done this sooner?  When we bought the house his bedroom was a "walk in closet/dressing room" travesty...  We turned it back into the third bedroom... so we had to find the location of the original register that had been closed off when laid the new sub floors ...  sounds confusing...and it would have been disastrous if we hadn't started this blog.  To start this job we merely went back to a photo...

Wow...this photo really takes me back.. but you can see right inside what was to become the master bedroom closet, just behind the right stud wall...down there to the right of the hammer...YES!  the location of the original heat register... now to relocate..

Rich did some measurements and drilled a very small hole from the top while I watched from downstairs and YES!  we landed between the floor joists...

Nancy

some little projects...

Today is MLK day.. which means that Rich has the day off.  Last night we ran into Columbia, had dinner and bought some goodies at Lowe's..  Of course that means that today the tools came out... drill, screwdriver, saw, tape measure, pencil...

First up is a little help in the sewing room.  In the other house we had a tall white cabinet in the garage..It held some crap, stuff, important items that we decided could be stored somewhere else.  So I tried to help carry it had Rich and Ryan schlep it up the stairs...

see?  not ready yet!

Let's add some strips of white wood...

three strips on each side..

add some white peg board and I now have a place for all my quilting rulers...

circle cutters on the other side...I must really like circle cutters since I have two...

and some of my specialty rulers..

But that's not all we did...

This is the back hallway ...  This window faces the front of the house..

and the laundry room... what a mess!!  AND

this is the view from the front porch! 

YEA!!  New blinds...

And this is the view NOW from the front porch...

and the back hallway window...

From the inside!

and from the outside!!

Nancy

The Work Shop...and another project.

Apparently there are a few people that actually stalk, visit this blog faithfully to check for updates.  Looks like I updated last right after Thanksgiving..  We have been busy... We paid the son to move all the tools from the basement to the shop...and clean out the garage and move some stuff from the shop to the garage...


I don't have before photos of the shop... Just imagine  a large steel building with lots of big wood working tools, tons of boxes, no insulation, no heat and no electricity..  Now you know what Rich has been doing...

First he put up some walls...

Then he added blown insulation...

Then he put in electric...

Then he put in a wood stove...

Then he unpacked...

And now here it is...

the outside...

step in the door and look to the left..

look straight ahead..

left of stove..

right of the stove..

I guess you noticed that every thing has a place and everything is in it's place.  This is not because he just finished unpacking...It ALWAYS looks like this.. ALWAYS!!  It's truly annoying.. 

And now that the shop is all put together...we get to do more projects.. we finished the shelves in the kitchen...

As soon as I get them filled I will post a photo.. . I'm working on it.. The bottom shelf is reserved for my Kitchen Aid mixer...

Nancy

PS - Happy now Don?