oh my dog! some times you just have those weekends where, for no explanable reason, you get lots of stuff done! i don't know what happened to us this past weekend, but, whatever it was, i liked it! i always have my list of things to get accomplished written out for Fridays and i never get any of it done. this last Friday was no exception. instead of working on an endless ToNotDo list, i took
Baxter over to my co-worker's house for some socializing work. after we got back home, i had no motivation to do anything that i'd put on my list during the week.
however, for some strange reason, Saturday was a different story. Nacho & i did our usual Sat morning breakfast at the Greece & when we got home, boy did we hit the ground running. for me it was a deep cleaning Saturday. we get a LOT of those wispy cob webs around here & i'd ignored them long enough. so my intention was to vacuum everything above eye level. i did just that, but then it somehow led to more. so here's just some of what we accomplished.....
Venting
Nacho proved me wrong for once! he got this finished up in about 2 weeks
yes, we now vent to the outside! horray! so technically, the kitchen/dining remodel is complete! i will post a full before/after soon! this sets us up for the roof redo that we've been needing for some time. can't wait!
Wine Storage
i'd originally posted the bulk of this project
here, but it was nowhere near complete at the time. the steps have long been painted but i never did line the bottom drawers & get everything set up for storage. check that off the list as well.
this is still by far one of my favorite items in the remodel. and yes all of that is wine we drink with the exception of 1 empty bottle that is a placeholder! i did add the verticle corks at the back of each bottle to prevent the bottles from sliding back & so far it's worked great! the bottom drawers actually have room for 2 rows of wine & each drawer has room in the very back for 1-2 empty bottles. i plan to keep those handy for that placeholder function so that bottles don't roll around when there is an empty slot. and yes, Graffina is my current favorite right now - i have 3 different years of it. yum-o! oh, and if anyone can find me a consistent supply of The Show Cab, i'd greatly appreciate it!
Sealed
okay, this i actually did Friday morning, but i'd been on Nacho to apply a layer of Tung oil to the bamboo counter tops. why i didn't just do it myself to begin with, i'll never know. but that's done now as well!
Trim
oh god how we hate HATE hate painting trim around here. let's see with the kitchen/dining remodel, we had 10 windows to trim out & Nacho did 1. wonder who did THE OTHER FRACKING 9??? oh yeah, that would be me! i am a saddist!
but it's done finally! i did also manage to take some time to put 1 more coat of gloss on our bedroom window. the photos above are the spare bedroom/office & they were dying for some attention. anyone notice the lovely screen patch in the first photo (check out the right screen). yeah, that's sticky Cling Wrap that's been taped to the screen on both sides using packing tape. we can thank Baxter for that nice little remodel. he wasn't getting enough of a breeze through his hair so he made a minor modification. well, until we get it fixed..... i must say, as much as i loathe painting trim, i do love how it looks when you're done. i spent tonight putting all the hardware back on. note to self/everyone: it really is worth your time to remove all that hardware & don't bother taping the windows off, just come back with a razor blade after. both those tips are such time savers!
Return of the Tarp Curtain
so i did finally get my sewing machine back a couple of weeks ago. and remember whe i
modified that existing curtain to add a liner to it for use in the bedroom? guess what? i don't like it and i've changed my mind. i know, simply shocking. but i never did get rid of the
old Tarp curtain! you know what? it's rough, but i really do like it! so since the office/spare bedroom didn't have a good blackout curtain, just an old sheer from Pier1 way back when, i put Tarp curtain back up in here.
for some reason, i still like this curtain best. i like it so much, i'm changing my color scheme when we redo this room so i can keep this curtain. crazy i know! i think the true test will be if Moser can sleep in here without the street light peaking through!
A Little Extra
and with the old Pier1 sheer i had in the office coming down to make way for the Tarp curtain, i had a tension rod with nothing to do. so i borrowed from a popular Pinterest idea & repurposed that in our laundry room.
i'm going to revamp that room some day too so you will have an idea of just how small that space is. it is my ultimate homage to organization and/or use of every square inch humanly possible!
actually this is not all we got accomplished. we had a couple of other small items that made a big difference (or not):
- Nacho pulled the dining slider door & cleaned out the track. i do wish i'd gotten a picture of this. the door was so bad that i often had to put all my weight into it just to get it to open the entire way. he said it was amazing the amount of sand that had accumulated in the track. i think in the 11 years we've lived here we might have cleaned that thing once. that is on my annual ToNotDo list now!
- i attempted to organize some speaker wire behind the couch. why i have no idea, it will never be seen. suffice it to say, those Command strips that seem like such a great idea on tv, not so much in my house. fell right off the wall. i ended up using the plastic nail thingies that electricians use when running wiring to fasten the wire to a floating shelf so i could at least get them off the ground. certainly not photo worthy.
so, not exactly earth shattering, change the way i live stuff, but certainly changed the way i feel. anyone else getting things off their punch list these days!
