Hall Gear Closet – taped and first skim coat applied. Ginger, “Most people just buy furniture, they don’t build things in.” Gary, “It must be the Frank Lloyd Wright in me.” +1
DIY
Making things and general household maintenance.
Hall Gear Closet – Framing. New project. We have two-and-a-half closets in the house full of backpacking gear (and some overflow in the shed too). Doing something about it is long overdue. I decided to use the space that used to be occupied by the piano and convert it into a gear closet. Today I started framing the new built-in closet. +3
My job for the weekend is to convert this lot into a new front deck. 4 pictures
Garage Project – Just about done – For now… I’ve been tinkering with finishing this project for a few weeks now. It’s slowly getting there. Two-minute read, 5 pictures
Garage Project – Open sez-a-me. The doors are now fitted, and that’s all the main construction work complete. One-minute read, 6 pictures
Garage Project – Main storage area and the overhead shelving. One-minute read, 3 pictures
Garage Project – Ready to start building the main storage area. One-minute read, 4 pictures
Garage Project – The shop vac and compressor now have a new home. One-minute read, 2 pictures
That’s the corner cleaned up – The wall’s been patched, and the first coat of paint has been applied.
Garage Project: Getting Started With Stage IV – I forgot to take a picture before I started clearing away, so the corner to the right had already been cleared. One-minute read
I think I know what killed the fridge-freezer – The cats. Plus: Pride before a fall & I love it when a plan (albeit Plan B) comes together. 2 pictures
Weekly updates/inserts for my Bullet Journal. Two-minute read, 6 pictures
Gary vs The Drier (Again)There was a blue flash and a bang, and the drier stopped working. +1
Work on Ginger’s display shelving is finished. That’s a lot of blue glass! One-minute read, 4 pictures
My Weekend – Forty Feet of Shelving. I have my office, Ginger has her studio and my former office space. The office space has been due for remodeling for a long time. My first job has been to install forty feet of shelving to provide a home for most of Ginger’s blue glass.
I’ve been kept busy with a couple of projects in the workshop this week Two-minute read, 4 pictures
Back in June Ginger moved her studio to another of the bedrooms. She asked me to build a small product photo studio in the room’s closet. Below the photography area I fitted shelves to either side and there is room for two of her wheeled carts to fit in the middle. I also added another …
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A nice, simple project. I made three cellphone stands, one for Ginger, one for my nightstand and one for my desk. It took a couple of prototypes to get the depth just right so that the fingerprint sensor can still be used without the phone falling out of the rest.
Procrastinating In The Workshop. There are lots of other things I could be doing, like yard work. Instead, I’ve chosen to make three cellphone stands and a couple of bench rollers.
Lighting Test – Journal and Pilot Metropolitan Pen. +2