Posts from the ‘Bedrooms’ Category
- Testing my skills with some new custom-built furniture, part two on January 30th, 2013
After just about a week of work, the full radiator cover/bookshelf combo is finished and installed. I think I started buying materials last Monday or Tuesday, did a little bit of the work during the week late at night, but did most of it over this last weekend. This post is part two. Click for [...]
- Testing my skills with some new custom-built furniture on January 28th, 2013
“Furniture” is probably too strong of a word for what I spent the last week building: a custom radiator box combined with bookshelves for the guest room. This is the first of two posts; read part two here. This isn’t anything like a fancy chair or a dresser or a chest or any other kind [...]
- Planting the Jay Tree on December 6th, 2012
The blog has been quiet as work has slowed down, but there’s one small finished project I haven’t chronicled yet, mostly because the story is a difficult one to tell and the words hard to find: the special new tree we planted in our treebox that will grow ever upward and outward in front of [...]
- When it’s all over it just begins again: the master bedroom on September 7th, 2012
We always joke that each room renovation in the last 22 months has been done a little better than the last. Which means that once we’re done with everything, we’ll have to start over where we began. Because we learn as we go and our standards and knowledge change as we take on projects. Which [...]
- Covering the radiator in the nursery on April 30th, 2012
You might remember the plan for a radiator box I had jotted down in my trusty home journal a few months ago and posted to Flickr. (Can’t remember if I blogged about it here.) I uploaded this photo back in February, though I think I drafted it down a few months before. We have 6 [...]
- Creating vital new storage in a small rowhouse on April 12th, 2012
Our basement is so full of stuff right now. It’s the one part of the house that’s barely changed since we moved in. It was sort of half finished — really just an ad hoc room in part of the basement added on that someone used at some point, and that’s about it. And we’ve just [...]
- Pulling back the curtain on the nursery. Halfway. on February 22nd, 2012
If you keep tabs on me via Flickr or Facebook, you’ve seen the evidence popping up there already, but the nursery is finished. We’re finished, but we can’t totally wrap things up and decorate just yet because I’m going to be using the attic access to take all the insulation out of the attic and [...]
- I can’t figure out how to write a post title about stripping that’s not a double entendre on February 13th, 2012
But stripping is what I’ve been doing for the last two weeks or so in the seemingly never-ending quest to remove all lead- and VOC-based paint from the nursery. After several posts in the last year that made (Intentional? Unintentional?) stripping references, I can’t bring myself to do it again. I guess I’m growing up. [...]
- Basement renovation brainstorming on February 7th, 2012
The basement renovation has begun. And by “begun the renovation” I mean that we’ve measured the space and started to toss around ideas for roughly how we could arrange the space. The next step is winning the lottery, knocking off a bank or selling our on-the-way firstborn to be able to afford taking step 2, [...]
- Almost ready to unveil the nursery…which will soon be home to… on February 2nd, 2012
A baby girl! We found out yesterday with our 20 week sonogram. Everything looks good, baby is healthy, mom is healthy, and we’re excited that we can soon start filling and decorating this room — which is rounding 3rd and heading for home! We’re not quite ready to totally reveal the nursery yet, though you [...]
