Posts from the ‘Nursery’ Category
- A Cheerful Place (Unveiling the Nursery, Part Two) on July 26th, 2012
(Read part one.) We’ve come a long way in the third bedroom — now the nursery — since we first saw the house in September 2010. At long last, we’re ready to unveil the nursery, which we started way back in December 2011. Here’s the before photo from the first time we saw the house, and [...]
- Oh, right, we never unveiled Lily’s new room! on July 21st, 2012
This is going to probably turn into several posts for a few reasons: because we’re not getting any new projects done these days, we’re going to seriously stretch out all the stories we’ve got as far as possible. And also because Rachel wants to make sure that it’s not just construction details, but also about [...]
- Removing paint from brass and metal hardware on June 4th, 2012
Crockpot + painted metal hardware = restoration! While stripping the door to the nursery, I took off the hinges from the door and the frame to try and clean them up a bit. Following the recurring theme of the entire house, they were slathered in paint like a kindergarten art class. No attempt whatsoever was [...]
- Steve the stripper on May 29th, 2012
Yeah, that title is a combination of the new nickname that my mother-in-law gave me while video chatting with Rachel last night as she filled her in on my recent tasks, and the fact that I saw the trailer for Magic Mike the other day. Yep, that’s right, a Channing Tatum/Steven Soderbergh movie about a [...]
- 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 [...]
