Problems – Three coats of paint, rubbing down between coats, around 3-4 hours each. And the color of the paint doesn’t match the doors we bought.
February 17, 2022
DIY
Making things and general household maintenance.
February 12, 2022
Painting – Time to paint the utility room shelving.
January 31, 2022
Pantry shelves ready for finishing. With a lot of snow forecast, I needed to get the shelves out of the garage to make room for the car. +2
January 31, 2022
Well, that didn’t go as planned… As usual, things took a lot longer to do than I anticipated, and I made two annoying mistakes. Two-minute read.
January 28, 2022
My task for tomorrow … Is to turn this pile of wood into a ‘pantry’ and shelving unit.
January 23, 2022
And that’s the cabinets fitted – I’ve still got to make a pantry to fill the open space on the left, and another set of shelves on the opposite side of the room too. +1
January 23, 2022
Cabinets fitted on one side. Now for the cabinets on the opposite wall.
January 23, 2022
Ginger fitting hinges – currently we are adding some high-level storage for ‘little used’ items.
January 23, 2022
Boxes – we have some work to do today. The utility room remodel is getting out of hand! We had already dealt with several boxes when I took this picture.
January 10, 2022
Final coat of stain – Made a lot of difference to the color. Now to varnish it all, add door handles, and it’s finished. +3
January 9, 2022
Making the gear closet doors – There have been a few upgrades in the workshop. Black Friday Grizzly had a drill press and bandsaw on sale at a price I couldn’t refuse. The pair cost less than the bandsaw normally retails at. The bandsaw came in particularly useful for all the joints I had to make for the gear closet doors. One-minute read, +1
January 8, 2022
Gary in the workshop – Hindsight being the gem that it is, I now know it was a huge mistake to make the doors and not get them ‘off the shelf.’ +3
December 30, 2021
Distractions – A couple of weeks before Christmas the dryer broke down. We were just about to have the utility room, painted, so Ginger decided that she’d pop out and buy a new dryer and washer for the freshly painted room. And that’s when the work began. Two-minute read, +1
November 28, 2021
Gear Closet update – Still plenty left to do. Bottom shelf and kick space, shelf fronts, and … doors to make.
September 26, 2021
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
September 5, 2021
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
September 4, 2020
My job for the weekend is to convert this lot into a new front deck. 4 pictures
September 7, 2019
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
August 10, 2019
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
August 9, 2019
Garage Project – Main storage area and the overhead shelving. One-minute read, 3 pictures
July 31, 2019
Garage Project – Ready to start building the main storage area. One-minute read, 4 pictures
July 28, 2019
Garage Project – The shop vac and compressor now have a new home. One-minute read, 2 pictures
July 22, 2019
That’s the corner cleaned up – The wall’s been patched, and the first coat of paint has been applied.
July 22, 2019
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
June 24, 2018
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