Introducing our next renovation project: closing in this ugly and useless garage door. If it were functional, this door would open up directly into our basement. That is, if you were to you walk down the basement steps, boom: you see where the car would be parked. Even if we wanted to use this space to […]
Simplify: Living with too much stuff
Something came over me about a month or two ago. I’m not exactly sure where it started. Maybe with cleaning out Elise’s closets before I painted them. Slowly, I started tackling one small space at a time. A drawer here, a box there. Removing anything expired, unnecessary, redundant. If something didn’t belong, I moved it to a […]
Update: Con-Tact paper as privacy film
It’s been almost a year since I used clear Con-Tact paper as privacy film on our basement windows and I thought I’d give an update. I get a fair amount of hits about this project and just wanted to encourage anyone who has been thinking about doing it. It’s held up extremely well and looks as good […]
Painted workbench: Before & after
Clearing off my basement workbench exposed a ton of ugly stains. If there are stains and paint spills on this surface I at least want them to be my stains and paint spills. So I decided to do a quick paint job to freshen things up. Before First, I vacuumed the entire surface really well […]
A space for painting (and other stuff)
This is workspace #2 for this week. Not exactly as pretty as the other one, so sorry if this post bores the pants off of some of you. But read on if you enjoy semi-dramatic before and after photos. Before This basement workbench area was here when we bought the house, and I’m only slightly […]