tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50627315991519249292024-02-18T17:41:31.562-08:00Tri my worldDaineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260022874738613687noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062731599151924929.post-24224408145740021092015-12-30T11:14:00.001-08:002015-12-30T11:15:21.644-08:00The Blog has Moved!Hey guys! Guess what? Trimyworld changed its name and moved! I'll still be posting all the house updates, but over on <a href="http://www.thinkcreaterenovate.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">think.CREATE.renovate</span></a>.<br />
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The reasons for the move are explained over there so, go on...get out of here and go check it out!<br />
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Can't wait to see you over there!<br />
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Hello friends! I know it’s been pretty quiet around here
lately. We have been enjoying a lot of life in the form of surprise
parties, cruises, and flying <3 We went on a cruise with some dear friends and we sailed under the Sunshine Skyway Bridge...<o:p></o:p></div>
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and the next weekend The Engineer flew us right over it!</div>
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We had so much fun with these guys on the cruise!</div>
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I also threw The Engineer a surprise party to celebrate his Pilot's License. He is usually really aware of everything that's going on so I worked really hard to be secretive about it and he had no idea! Haha, got ya! ;-) It was a blast and he loved it. </div>
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We did find some time to do a little more prep work for the
office so I thought I’d stop in and share! <o:p></o:p></div>
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We left off with fully installed cabinets and <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/05/there-is-desk-in-office.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">countertops</span></a>. </div>
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Since then, we’ve applied three coats of oil based polyurethane and are thinking that we want one more because there are some spots where the wood was pretty dry causing the polyurethane to really soak in. We also
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This step needs to be completed before we can actually install the built-in shelves in the office. We'd previously designed the shelves and bought materials (I'll share the design soon!). There were several different variations to the design that we debated over. Ultimately we ended up purchasing baskets that will be used for storage and designed the shelves around them!</div>
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While we were working on the polyurethane, we started to cut and paint the shelves and supports. Without a table saw this process took a little longer, but we took our time and made it work!<br />
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With one of two pieces of plywood cut, we called it a day and brought the cut boards inside for painting. I'm using one coat of primer, one coat of eggshell enamel, and two coats of semi gloss enamel for shine and durability. I applied each coat with a microfiber roller which is the best tool in the world. I highly recommend you get one if you have any painting projects ahead of you. </div>
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time studying for his tests and practicing in the plane. I wanted to make sure I wasn’t a distraction
to him, so I decided to take on some more of the yard while the home office renovation
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In the front yard, I still had two massive African iris
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After another trip to Home Depot I came back with a fully
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Luckily, I didn’t feel too bad about spending my entire
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Once the area was free from weeds I was ready to install a
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We really like this border for our pathways and bed areas.
We discovered it because the previous owners had utilized in for the shell path
in the back yard. When we redid the path, we reused it for the new path. Even
though it is old, it has held up very well and provides a nice definition
between the grass and pathways or bed areas. We like it so much that our goal
is to utilize it in all the bed areas of the yard. It is a more expensive
option, but it has been a good investment for us. Thus, I laid it out and
started digging a small trench to place it in.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Not only did I encompass the new bed area with the border,
but I continued all the way around three philodendron plants in the front yard.
In the process I did have to cut through some tree roots and I even cut the
bottom of the border in a few spots to go around old irrigation pipes.<br />
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We threw around a lot of ideas about what type of plant to
put behind the African irises. We knew we wanted it to be a tall plant and I
finally settled on sunflower seeds. I love sunflowers and have been
looking for an excuse to plant them in the yard. I chose seeds instead of plants for two reasons. There are a ton of roots in this area of the yard and
trying to dig a hole for a plant is a pain. Secondly, I’m not sure if there is
enough sun here for sunflowers. I know they can grow in partial shade and might
be stunted, but I just don’t know how they will do. I figured with seeds, if
they don’t grow, they don’t grow and we will go for plan b!<br />
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So in the ground the little seeds went. I left the mulch
pulled back so the seedlings would get as much sun while they are growing.
We’ll see how they do!<o:p></o:p><br />
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I also added mulch to the other bed out front and they both
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I transitioned to the back yard to take care of the (future) garden
area that had gotten way out of hand.<br />
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Umm…WHAT HAPPENED?!?!?!??!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I knew we had a little crab grass farm going over there, but
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Not that the area is super pretty or anything, but it will be once we finish it! And we have little lemons growing <3<br />
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I made two more new beds in the back yard just
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I had already transplanted a bush from the front yard to the
corner by the work shop, and these poor plants have been sitting in their pots for weeks waiting
to be planted.<br />
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Prior to trenching for the border, I salvaged some grass for
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In this bed I planted a banana tree a friend
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I also transplanted these plants from in front of the shed to this new bed.<br />
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Even though I only planted them there a few months ago, we decided that we wanted to go in a different direction by the shed. I hope they aren’t too mad at me for uprooting them!</div>
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It sure has been a lot of work in the heat, but I am so so
happy with the progress in the yard. I love looking at it through the windows
and make little detours just to do so when I am walking around the house haha!
What a goober right? The grass in the back really surprised us because despite half of it being completely dead six months ago, it is flourishing now.<br />
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Now we will be able to maintain the yard instead of
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Thanks for reading, come back soon to see more updates in
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<b><i>…and I am SO PROUD of him.</i></b></div>
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The Engineer is a very talented and smart man. He really can
do anything he puts his mind to. Since the day we met, he has been obsessed
with flying talked often about his desire to get his private pilot’s license. He
listens to air traffic control on the reg, if he hears an airplane in the sky…he
has to find it every. single. time, and we have been on many a date to random parking lots around airports to watch the planes take off and
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He researched airports and schools to get his license when
he was living in Miami before we were married, but simply didn’t have the time
to take on such a task. After a new job and a move, he finally had the time he
needed to dedicate to learning to fly. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Plane watching in St. Martin, on our honeymoon. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Plane watching in St. Martin, on our honeymoon.</span></td></tr>
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I strongly encouraged him to do it because I knew it was a
passion of his. Just over a year ago he finally took the plunge and started
lessons.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Long, long ago...</td></tr>
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You may have noticed that since we started our big home
office renovation around two months ago that we’ve been moving at a snail’s
pace. The Engineer has taken lessons and studied for a year, but has done so
around the schedule of our life. This sometime meant he didn’t fly for a month
(or two :-/) when we were busy. He fully dedicated himself to our family and
friends and our home renovation projects. <o:p></o:p></div>
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When he was getting close to fulfilling his requirements in
May, he asked me if he could focus on flying. Of course I said yes, but that
meant we didn’t have as much time on the weekends to work on the office
together. There were of course things I could do on my own (like tackle our
yard!), but once we got the cabinets installed in the office, we backed off so The Engineer could
focus on his training.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Engineer taxiing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">The Engineer taxiing</span></td></tr>
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He spent so much time studying and making sure he acquired
the knowledge he needed to be a smart and safe pilot.</div>
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He passed all of his tests with flying colors. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>I really am so proud. <o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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The first thing he did was take his wife up on a tour of the
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Us, up in the air</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beaches from the plane</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The best view</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Engineer pointing out other air traffic</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The airport on our way back in</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turning to land</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Runway in sight</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lining up to land</td></tr>
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It was amazing to have my husband fly me around in a tiny little plane over our town. I just wanted to share his huge
accomplishment with you all…and to explain why things have been a little slow
around here!</div>
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We’re ready to get back in the office though so you will be
getting some good updates soon! Until then, you can find me up in the sky with
The Engineer….ahem excuse me…Pilot.</div>
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Daineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260022874738613687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062731599151924929.post-12816280918590153482015-06-11T09:03:00.003-07:002015-06-11T09:03:50.284-07:00Painting Cork Boards and Cleaning Keyboards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I tackled two minor projects for my office this weekend. I’m
talking about my work office, not the in-progress home office. One is a small
upgrade just to make me happy, the other is a read-at-your-own-risk-I-had-to-for-my-sanity-and-health.
I’ll go ahead and start with the pleasant project of painting a cork board. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I had a typical brown cork board in my office that didn’t
match anything and I really wasn’t fond of the color. With a simple coat of
paint though, I knew it would look great. So I took it home for a little upgrade. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Funny story though, I did this while watching Game 2 of the
Stanley Cup Finals and was very distracted and completely forgot to take a
before picture. Whoops! It wasn’t until the Lighting scored their first goal
that I realized this and took this before-ish picture.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Haha, priorities. Lesson learned: thou shall not DIY during
Stanley Cup games. Oh well, you get the idea of what it looked like before I
started painting. Typical brown cork board. I first painted the cork with the
left over <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-little-paint-gives-lot-of-life.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">sample paint</span></a> from our home office. It just so happens that
the grey we picked for our home office is a darn close color match to my office
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I didn’t bother taping the frame since I would be painting
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After letting it dry overnight, I taped the edges of the
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While I was waiting for the cork board to dry, I cleaned out
my keyboard. Fair warning – its gross so feel free to skip the rest of the
post, I won’t hold it against you. Just do me a favor and clean your keyboard…<i>especially</i> if you inherited yours like I
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So that’s what happened, I inherited a very nice keyboard.
The problem was…it was very dirty. I don’t know anything about its previous
owner, but the little air spray can was no match for this. All the keys were
dusty in between each other and I could see stuff sitting in the tray below all
the keys. I couldn’t get it out by turning it over and shaking it. I knew I had
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I started by taking a picture to remind myself where all the
keys belonged. You think you know these things, but you would be
surprised at how quickly you might forget. ;-) <o:p></o:p></div>
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I wanted to use a screw driver to pop the keys off but it
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Once I had the first key off I used the screw driver to pop
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I put all the keys in a plastic bowl and filled it with hot
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damage the innards of the board. Both of these steps used a decent number of Q-tips
but I had to go to extreme measures. To get the grime out of some of detailed
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I popped all the kays back in place and The Engineer told me
that it looked like a new keyboard. I am so relieved to have a clean keyboard.
As an added bonus, the keys are much quieter now without all that grime in
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Hey guys! I’ve got a cool little project to share with you
today: I made my dad a customized cutting board for his birthday! No, he’s not
a master chef. He does, however, love to fish. When he was helping us <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/04/how-to-cut-wood-countertops.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">cut our countertops</span></a>, he commented in passing about how the scrap wood would
make a great cutting board for cleaning fish. Thanks for the hint, dad!<o:p></o:p></div>
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So for my dad’s birthday I made him a cutting board, but I
wanted it to be more than a hunk of scrap wood from our countertops. I wanted
it to be <i>my dad’s</i> so I went a little
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Pretty cool right? He loved it, and it really wasn’t hard to
create, it just took a little patience. The Engineer helped me cut a scrap from
the office countertops to size. I didn’t take any pictures of this step since
it was all hands on deck, but it was the same process we used when <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/04/how-to-cut-wood-countertops.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">cutting the countertops</span></a> for the office. After cutting the scrap to size I sanded the edges, rounded the corners, and
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Then I began the process of treating the wood to protect it.
For a cutting board, you want to penetrate and protect the wood
from cut marks and bacteria. I went with Butcher Block Conditioner that I picked up at Home Depot (you can find it <a href="http://www.homedepot.com/p/Howard-12-oz-Butcher-Block-Conditioner-BBC012/202097756" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">here</span></a>). This is a food grade product, which was important to me since I knew my dad would be using it to clean fish that he would eventually be eating! This process
took a little patience, though it was super easy. It takes all of 60 seconds to
apply a coat, but it has to dry for several hours between applications. A new cutting board takes three to four coats to ‘season'. Plus, I wanted to do both sides so there would be no worry about which side was safe to cut on. Thus, this part took several days, mostly comprised
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Somewhere in the middle of sealing the cutting board, I
decided that I wanted to do a little something more. I thought about it for a
little bit and remembered a project that a friend of ours, Traven, had done. He
took a pallet and made a beautiful clock out of it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I love the rustic look and especially like how he made the
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this would be perfect for the cutting board and quickly ran out to buy the
cheapest one Home Depot had in stock :) (I didn’t need anything more powerful than this). It came with two flat tips
and one round tip. Following Traven’s lead, I chose my design and printed it to
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I picked the outline of a snook and incorporated my dad’s
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anyway while I was working. I used the pointed tip to trace the outline in a
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I first tried with the flat tip, but since my design didn’t
have any straight lines, I wasn't a fan of how it was translating.
So I changed back to the rounded tip and slowly went on my way. Enter the
second round of patience required. Not that tracing my template and filling it
in was hard, but it just took some time to wait for the iron to burn into the wood. I remember Traven talking about the slowness of this when he made his
clock. I totally understand now how much time it must have taken for all those
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I applied two more coats of the butcher block conditioner after I burned the
snook in because I definitely wanted the grooves to be sealed!
All in it took about a week to finish, but if you take out all the waiting it
was less than a two hour project! I’m so glad he liked it. Just another benefit
of building a home office right? ;-)<o:p></o:p></div>
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I'm serious, it's awful. It houses everything electronic and/or workout related because we don't have any were else to put it. It is a total mess and impossible to find what you need without dumping the entire bag. With the new office in the works, I <i>needed</i> to designate some space to organize these items. Thus, I set out to organize the <i>DREADED</i> electronics bag. </div>
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I dove right in and dumped everything out of the bag. Gulp.</div>
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In order to organize this stuff I needed to know what I had, so I laid out everything from the bag. This included but was not limited to...hard drives and thumb drives, computer mouse, SD cards, cell phone case for running, case for sunglasses, cell phone case, mini camera tripod, camera battery charger, two pairs of swim goggles, sports gel, extra run ID strap, numerous sets of headphones, CO2 pump (for filling a bike tube), bicycle light, and a ton of chargers and cables. I can't even breathe. </div>
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Excuse me while I practice some calming breathing techniques or something. These items obviously weren't going to fit all in one place but I wanted to start with a sectioned organizer that would fit our sports gear. I immediately thought of this: </div>
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It's a silverware organizer. It's actually the exact one we use for our silverware in our kitchen.</div>
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I liked it because it is short (hence it would fit on the shelf I had planned for it and it had plenty of different compartments. Don't worry, I didn't dump all the silverware in the drawer and steal the one from the kitchen. I went to The Container Store (<3) to get a new one haha! I also knew I could re-purpose the tray that I had been using to store my commonly used items. </div>
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I decided to put our common athletic items in the silverware organizer and all camera related items in the tray. I took my trays to the office to test the space out in the far right cabinet (I did this in the middle of installing countertops haha!). </div>
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The sport equipment organizer fit with room to spare for the camera tray next to it.<br />
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When I was testing to see how these would fit on the shelf I noticed that they did not slide very well, and with the countertops installed, the only way to get these in and out would be sliding. Thus, I decided to glue felt on the bottom. I only needed one $0.29 sheet of felt and simply cut it into strips with scissors and glued it around the outside of each tray with a hot glue gun! They slide like a dream now!</div>
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I loaded the sports items in the big tray and all the camera stuff in the smaller tray and slid them right into place.<br />
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This has helped immensely and I don't want to cry every time I need something. I still need to organize the rest of the office related electronics, but this is a great start.Daineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260022874738613687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062731599151924929.post-21897891465048339262015-05-22T05:13:00.000-07:002015-05-22T05:13:02.779-07:00There is a Desk in the Office!Holy excitement! We have a beautiful desk in front of the window in our home office! <3 <3 <3<br />
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I am in love! The desk turned out better than I had imagined it (and I had imaged it looking amazing). Let's talk about how we installed this bad boy. Recall that before this beautiful desk occupied this space, there was nothing but a big gaping hole between the cabinets.<br />
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The existing countertops are at 36 inches, which is a little high for a desk so we had already planned to drop the section of countertop for the desk to 30 inches. We debated different ways to attach the desk top. We wanted it to look good but also wanted to ensure it was safe and functional. It is situated directly in front of the window and it turns out that the window stool is 29 inches high. If the desk top is set on top on the window stool, the thickness of the countertop puts the top of the desk right at 30 inches. This works perfectly because it gives support for the back of the desk! It also allows the desk to be inset slightly which I think adds a nice architectural feature.<br />
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We then had to decide how to secure the rest of the desk. The idea of securing two horizontal support rails to the cabinets that the desk top would then rest on and be attached to was thrown out there. While this would work just fine, we decided we wanted to upgrade a little bit and get a little fancy. Enter table legs we bought at Lowe's.<br />
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You got a sneak peak of them in the <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/05/installing-wood-countertops.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">countertop post</span></a> because we have been supporting the countertop overhang with one leg until we got them installed. We are planning on having two legs on this portion of the countertop (the floating desk will have a docking station of sorts here once we build it). In the below picture you get the idea of where we are going with it. <br />
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To match, the other two legs were to be ascetically pleasing supports for the front of the desk. Since they were bare wood, I painted them white. I briefly debated painting them some fun color, but ultimately decided to let these be subtle features in the office and bring color in elsewhere later on.<br />
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Painting them took a while because I applied very thin coats of paint to avoid drips. I started with a flat white paint as a base layer and switched to semi gloss to give them a more polished look that would match the cabinets.<br />
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Unfortunately I made the mistake of switching to the semi gloss paint before the flat white had full coverage. The semi gloss paint is much thinner and does not get good coverage at all. I ended up switching back to the flat white paint to get full coverage after a few coats of the semi gloss paint were not doing the job. In the end they look great, but my mistake costed me a few extra coats of paint.<br />
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We also had to go back and re-install a new window stool since we ripped the old one out. We simply cut a piece of wood to match the length and depth and painted it white so the small amount that would be seen behind the desk would look nice. I used construction adhesive (liquid nails) to attach the wood to the random pieces of concrete that the previous stool was attached to.<br />
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Once the new stool was installed we needed to seal the gap left below the stool. When we ripped out the old stool, we found out that this had been taken care of with copious amounts of caulk. We wanted to fortify things a little bit better and I was planning on cutting some small wood slivers to fill the gaps and caulk the other minor gaps that were left. </div>
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The Engineer got some new toys. When we take on big projects we usually buy one larger tool item that we don't have to build our tool inventory. This time is was an air compressor with two nail guns and a staple gun. Since he was so excited to try it out, we decided to nail a small cover board over the gap. We used a scrap of 1" x 2" wood and cut it to the right length. </div>
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After The Engineer fully secured the wood to the wall, I painted it grey to match the walls. After that we were ready to attache some legs. We started with the countertop overhang. At 35 inches, we had to shave about a saw blade's width from each leg to get everything to level up (our floor is no where level so the legs are at different heights).<br />
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I am really pleased with the way the overhang looks with the legs. We debated several options for the end support and I love the result of our decision to go with legs to match the desk! I'll have to update you with a picture of that soon!<br />
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So we then started working on the desk and temporarily set the desk top in place. The back was supported on the window stool as it would be in the final instillation, and the front rested on a chair, a cooler, and two old textbooks.<br />
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At least there is one good use for old engineering books right?! This time we cut off about six inches from the legs to get them to fit. Again, since the floor in this room is not level, we were sure to measure the legs in their exact location. We even cut them a little bit long the first time around to be safe.<br />
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Because the desk is supported differently than the overhang, we opted for a different method to attach the legs. The desk is resting on the window stool in the back and the table legs in the front, and we screwed from inside the cabinet on each side into the side of the desk. We felt that we didn't need to go trough the trouble of countersinking screws in the legs to attach them to the countertop, so we simply used liquid nails to attach them. When we did this, we weighted the desk with other scrap pieces of counterop while it dried. We figured that if it turns out to be too loosy goosy in the future that we can always put screws in.<br />
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Wahoo look at that desk!<br />
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We still need to screw it in on the sides but I couldn't help sharing it! Hope you all have a great Memorial weekend!Daineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260022874738613687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062731599151924929.post-41128425614471236052015-05-11T05:25:00.004-07:002015-05-11T05:25:41.459-07:00Installing Wood CountertopsHey you guys! Guess what? We've installed the countertops in the office!<br />
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After <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/04/how-to-cut-wood-countertops.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">cutting the countertops</span></a>, installing them only took about an hour. We wanted to connect the countertops in the corner to create one solid piece. Our goal was to create a system in which we could tighten the two countertop pieces together to minimize the gap at the seam between them, and we used some great tips from my dad to do this! First, we placed both pieces on the floor upside down and roughly lined them up.<br />
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(Prior to taking them off the cabinets, we traced around the cabinets on the bottom side of the counters so we knew the boundaries of our working space down there.)<br />
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We then took two boards, one for each side of the seam, and cut them to fit within the traced area we had. To tighten the counterrop pieces together, we attached these boards to each countertop piece, connected the boards with threaded rods, and used nuts to pull them together. We drilled holes through both boards to insert the threaded rod in first to avoid alignment issues. The threaded rod came from one 20-inch piece that we cut to the length we needed with a small saw. </div>
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With the rods in, we used 1-1/2 inch screws to attach both boards to their respective countertop (via pre-drilled holes). </div>
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Six scres on each side may have been a nit excessive, but we didn't want the boards to bow at all when we tightened them together. We then loosely tightened the nuts onto the threaded rods so we could flip the countertop and set it on the cabinets. </div>
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With the countertop in place, we pulled them apart slightly so we could caulk the seam. We chose almond colored caulk to blend with the color of the countertop. </div>
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After caulking the entire seam, we pushed the countertops together, tightened all the nuts down, and used damp cloths to wipe the excess caulk away. </div>
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Since the caulk shrinks as it dries, we gave it a second round after everything was tightened and dry. After all the nerves involved, we are very happy with the result!</div>
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To finish up, we used L-brackets to attach the countertop to the cabinets by pre-drilling holes and screwing them in while pressure was applied to the top. </div>
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The countertops look great and I am super excited to get a move on with more work in here!</div>
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Have you missed some of the office progress? Check out every step!<br />
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They were a bit out of control and I had no idea how I was going to get the weeds and leaves and who knows what else out of them. After a momentary panic attack, I knew I had to dig everything up, split the overgrown border grasses, and replant. So I did just that. </div>
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The border grass plants were so big and heavy! They were so big that I split each one into four new plants with a hatchet! Four!! I also took out this plant with the red leaves out because it was directly in front of a hibiscus and moved it to the backyard. </div>
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With everything out, I replanted the smaller border grasses (after weeding and raking the leaves out). </div>
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I also rearranged some plants by the door to look a little more purposeful. It is so much more enjoyable to pull in the driveway and see a maintained flower bed instead of a neglected one!</div>
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We also had one more leftover totally neglected spot in the back yard which consisted of a bunch of mother in law tongue along the back fence that had been taken over by various vines and weeds. </div>
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Ack look at that!<br />
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No, I'm serious...LOOK AT THAT!!!! How did I let this go so long?? I look at it on a regular basis and tell myself I need to get it under control. Oh my gosh, are you looking?</div>
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This is a little artifact of a gigantic mess of plants that occupied this corner when we moved in. I found some pictures of its original state from our<span style="color: magenta;"> <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2014/04/tree-trimmin.html" target="_blank">tree trimming post</a></span>. </div>
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Oh so scary! And awful. And yes, we had a street light in our backyard too. Thankfully it has since been removed.<br />
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Back to today, I was working on another blog post in the sunroom and after staring at it for a few hours I had to get rid of that awful mess. It happened to be a beautiful day so I tackled it all in 2.5 - 3 hours.<br />
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I had to resort to the same take everything out before cleaning it up method, but its a good way to fix the problem. Part of the 'everything' of course included the classic cinder blocks. There were five of them hiding in the mess.<br />
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I wanted to plant the mother in law tongue along the fence again so I saved all those while I threw all the other weeds out (a whole trash can worth and then some!).<br />
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I could not believe I waited so long to take care of this little problem area, but I'm so glad I finally got around to it! The yard is really coming along, look at that grass! Maybe it's time to get back to the office!</div>
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They really pull things together don't they? It was a little awkward looking without them haha.<br />
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We went with solid wood HAMMARP beech countertops from Ikea, the exact same one we have on the <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2014/10/theres-finished-dry-bar-in-our-house.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">dry bar</span></a>. To get all the pieces we needed, we had to get three of the longer 98-inch countertops (diagrams of this below).<br />
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Originally, we were pretty set on hiring someone to cut the countertops. We didn't know what the cost would be, but figured it would be worth it mostly because we had a corner to deal with. With a corner in the picture that meant we had to get two 45 degree cuts to perfectly line up. Eeek!<br />
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But we did some research and knew that it was well within our capabilities even though it was scary. When my dad offered to come over and help us with the cuts we decided to go for it.<br />
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Before cutting, we applied three coats of oil to the wood (we used the BEHANDLA wood treatment oil that is recommended and sold by Ikea).<br />
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During this step they ended up taking over our living room. Again.<br />
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The oil applies with a white tint but dries clear. Similar to stain, you wipe off the excess after it dries for 15 minutes. It is also extremely forgiving...there are no brush marks so you can be a little sloppy if you want ;-)<br />
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Our design called for five different sections of countertop that we needed to create from the three long pieces we bought. Below are the layout and dimensions (not to scale):<br />
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and how we arranged these cuts on the three long pieces.<br />
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We didn't have too much scrap (noted in black in the above diagram) which was nice. We started with the longest piece at the top and worked our way down. This piece was going to be the full length of the board less what we had to sacrifice to cut the 45 degree angle. We were very lucky to have some wiggle room with our length. This meant that if for some reason something didn't go right with out cut that we could make another cut without creating a huge gap somewhere.</div>
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Our supplies were pretty simple:</div>
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1. Circular saw</div>
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2. Guide (in our case just a scrap piece of wood)</div>
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4. Masking tape</div>
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5. Speed square</div>
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6. Measuring tape</div>
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Since we were cutting the corner off, we made a few practice cuts within the scrap area to make sure we were happy with the guide we set up for our circular saw, cut speed, maneuverability, etc. We used a 1 x 5 piece of wood as our guide (do yourself a favor and make sure that the guide you choose is straight!) and we used a speed square on the edge of the countertop to carefully line it up at 45 degrees. </div>
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When we were confident that our guide was working as intended, we lined it up for the real deal.</div>
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Since we were keeping the full length of the countertop, we were aiming to cut as close to the edge as possible, thus we lined up just inside the corner of the wood at 45 degrees. </div>
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We put painters tape down to protect the wood from the circular saw as it slid along the countertop (the saw doesn't cut directly where the guide is, it cuts about an inch in front of it so we wanted to protect the wood from scratches incurred while cutting) and The Engineer started his cut.<br />
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I could tell by his facial expressions that it was not going well, but he did a great job and continued the cut to the end (when making precise cuts like these, you DO NOT want to stop in the middle).</div>
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Sure enough, the tape didn't stick to the oiled wood well and had gotten caught up in the circular saw. </div>
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The cut wasn't bad though and we took it inside and set it in place to see how it looked. </div>
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On the opposite corner cut we switched to masking tape and I could tell when I put it on that it stuck to the wood much better. </div>
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The masking tape worked perfectly and after cutting the second piece we brought it to see how they lined up. The seam was definitely slightly off and by using a metal straight edge against each cut we could tell that our first cut was not quite perfectly straight. So we brought it outside and cut about 1/8 of an inch off. Like I mentioned, we were lucky that we had the flexibility to do this. If you don't have this type of flexibility, make sure you test your tape on some practice cuts too. The second cut turned out much better and the corner lined up very well the second time around!</div>
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After the corner cuts, the rest were a piece of cake. We just set our guide at 90 degrees and made straight cuts!</div>
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Just for some perspective, the three countertop pieces from above are all 36 inches tall which is standard kitchen counter height. Standard desk height is more like 29-30 inches. So none of the above areas will actually be desk space. The main desk is going in that gap below the window:</div>
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and we are going to drop the countertop to 30 inches. It will go from the side of one cabinet to the side of the opposite cabinet. I am super glad that we measured the front of this opening and the back of this opening because our room is not square and the two measurements were off by a quarter inch. So when we cut this piece we made our cut at an angle and the desk piece slides in perfectly. The final scrap piece will actually be used as the top for a floating desk that we are going to build.</div>
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Hey folks! So I mentioned that our office progress was slowed a bit...because we took a trip to London!! </div>
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We did not have this planned at all. But about a month and a half before we left, The Engineer found his job taking him to Kazakhstan and we decided to piggy back a...holiday as they say in London...off of this. We searched to find a location we could both get to cost effectively. </div>
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Thus I give you a mostly photo tour of our impromptu trip to London. </div>
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We stayed in an awesome apartment on the river. </div>
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I tried really hard to schedule tea time with the Queen, but she was busy...we did stop by her residence...</div>
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Windsor castle.<br />
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Interesting fact about the castle, it is right on the flight path to London's biggest airport so you can fly directly over it. Kinda different from the White House here haha. </div>
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We visited the famous Stonehenge.<br />
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Big Ben greeted us several times during our visit. </div>
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We had a lovely view of The Shard (London's tallest building) and The London Eye from our apartment.<br />
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North of London is the Olympic Park from 2012. I thought it was really cool to see in person. We went up the Arcelormittal Orbit Sculpture there and got a great bird's eye view of the Olympic stadium. They are working hard to convert into the new home of their football team (not American football people..I'm talking soccer here).</div>
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Oh, and of course the pool! </div>
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Michael Phelps swam here people. Oh yes, he did. </div>
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It was pretty clear the morning we went and our first glimpse of blue sky on the trip! (Hard to get around London)</div>
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Form there we took a ferry ride on the Thames River. We passed our apartment building (tall red one in the middle).<br />
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And we rode under the Tower Bridge.<br />
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Inside the bridge they have newly installed glass floors which are pretty freaky. </div>
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As we were leaving the Tower Bridge area we noticed that <i> the sky was completely blue</i>. </div>
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Pretty rare moment because I only took the below picture an hour later haha.<br />
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And we had a very pretty sunset. </div>
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Which is where Kensington Palace is (that's the official residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, or as you might recognize them Prince William and Kate).<br />
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We headed over to the National History Museum. The building was super cool, and it was free (like many museums there are).<br />
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On our last full day we went on a food crawl and started at Borough Market.<br />
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It was nice to chill at one location for the entire trip (unlike our last trip...<a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2014/12/new-york-new-york.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">New York</span></a>, <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2014/12/ciao-milan.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">Milan</span></a>, <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2014/12/when-in-rome.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">Rome</span></a>, <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2014/12/praha-pr-as-we-know-it-prague.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">Prague</span></a>, <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/01/amsterdam-is-awesome.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">Amsterdam</span></a>, and Japan). Both were awesome though!!</div>
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Progress on the office has been non existent since we returned from London (recap post coming soon!). We need to cut the counter tops but haven't had enough time to dedicate to the task yet. We've been busy or sleeping (I'm still maintaining London time ;-)). </div>
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That is OK though because there are plenty of little things around the house that are easy to do. Like hanging a bar sign!</div>
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I found these metal letters at Michael's for 50% off and with a coupon they were $2 each. I'm all for DIY and I'm sure I could have made letters...but for that price I'm totally OK with store bought!</div>
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The Engineer was on board when I showed him the letters and he even had a this cool idea to 'float' the letters from the wall a bit because the shadows gave it some nice depth. I loved the idea and we decided to use some nuts as spacers (they were the same color/finish as the nails and letters and kept with the rustic look). </div>
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I measured my wall space and started in the middle and using a level to mark the locations of all six nails. I know I spent an excessive amount of time on this step, but now its all level and spaced perfectly :)</div>
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The pictures are all taken from an angle because just off camera lies a <b>massive</b> pile of junk from the office renovation which I was climbing all over and through to take these pictures. (Home improvement takes over your home but its always worth it!)</div>
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This trip wasn't planned super far in advance...we just took advantage of an opportunity :) I'll definitely put together a post about our adventures! We had a blast!<br />
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But back to reality...we have made some more progress with the office.<br />
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We <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-little-paint-gives-lot-of-life.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">painted the office</span></a> a nice light grey with a dark accent wall where we are planning to build open shelving.<br />
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As great as the new paint looked, we couldn't go any farther without our cabinets. We had two hours on a Saturday night before Ikea closed. They don't open until 11 am on Sundays so we wouldn't be able to start work first thing in the morning if we didn't get to Ikea and pick up our materials. We were confident in our design so we went for it.<br />
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Placing our order was easy because we already had everything in the Ikea kitchen planner (same thing we used to plan our dry bar <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-ball-is-rolling.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">here</span></a>). We just quickly confirmed that the door styles, finishes, and counter tops were the ones we wanted and ordered!<br />
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On big orders like this, Ikea pulls your items for you so you just have to kill some time and then roll on out of there with your goods! I only bought a few extra goodies in my spare time :) :) Hey, at least it was all for the office right?<br />
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We certainly pushed the limits of our jeep on this load...we had 900 lbs of materials, plus the two of us! Thank goodness we live close to Ikea!!!<br />
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Since many areas of the house were housing all the clutter from the office, the only place to offload all this stuff was our living room. So we backed up on the front lawn right to the front door. Classy eh?<br />
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Once I was finished I helped him build the rest of the cabinet bases.<br />
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Lovin' it!<br />
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We did notice one problem though...<br />
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Our plug on the far wall was split by the edge of the cabinet.<br />
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We knew it would be close and had loosely planned on moving the outlet. But after some discussion, we decided to exchange our 21" cabinet for a 24" cabinet. Those extra three inches put the plug completely behind the cabinet and we just cut a hole for it and plan to put a printer in there.<br />
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The cabinets attach to the wall through a railing mounted in the studs. We mounted said railing, put feet on the cabinets and mounted them to the rail. We also cut a hole in the cabinet for the outlet. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of these steps because I deleted them. Whoops. I cleared the memory card from the camera before our London trip not realizing that I hadn't downloaded everything from it. Oh well. If you are interested in the process you can check out <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2014/07/burnin-midnight-oil.html" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">this post</span></a> from our dry bar assembly. We used Ikea kitchen products here so its all more or less the same :)<br />
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The doors and drawers went on next which made things look a little more like an office for the first time.<br />
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And then we high tailed it for London. But we're back on track and will keep the updates coming.<br />
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Find previous office progress <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/03/getting-ready-for-new-office.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">here</span></a> and <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-little-paint-gives-lot-of-life.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">here</span></a>.<br />
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Cheers!Daineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260022874738613687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062731599151924929.post-8302506067243415172015-04-01T08:49:00.001-07:002015-04-01T13:19:56.971-07:00A pleasent yet affordable bathroom shelf upgradeHello everyone! Did you love March as much as I did? The weather has been BEAUTIFUL!!! I suppose if you are up north you might not agree with me, but these Florida evenings have stolen my heart. The only thing I love more than having my windows open is dreaming about having all of them open once we get the rest of our screens on!! Maybe next year right?<br />
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Back to business...I had some time the other night to tackle a minor project to make our bathroom closet a little more palatable. We use our main bathroom for everything except showering, but there are no drawers. Ergo, everything is stored in the closet that I would otherwise consider a linen closet. Since it does not serve that purpose, we have made a few adaptations.<br />
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When we moved in, I organized it by like items. For example, my toothbrush and toothpaste were on the same shelf as The Engineer's. This, however, drove me crazy. Primarily because The Engineer has an electric toothbrush that I kept knocking over. I then decided to re-arrange and give each of us our own shelf and store less used items behind our every day items. This became a problem because I put our medicine box in the back and every time we needed a band aid, it was not very accessible. Every time we needed something or tried to put it back it was a hassle and it got messy. Since we were due for another re-arrange, I wanted to do something about our shelves.<br />
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The shelves are 'white' wood, but they are old and have many years of life ground into them. Sanding them and putting a simple coat of white would have solved the problem but I really wanted something a little prettier. I had planned to paint a black and white chevron pattern on them but hadn't yet gotten around to it. Turns out I didn't need to. I was perusing TJ Maxx for some office decor and something jumped out at me. (No, the office is no where near done but you can't blame me for getting a jump on decorating! You can check out the progress <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/03/getting-ready-for-new-office.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">here</span></a> and <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-little-paint-gives-lot-of-life.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">here</span></a>.)<br />
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Contact paper in one of my favorite patterns...two rolls for $7. This was way better than painting. I hope that someday we completely demo this bathroom and start from scratch, but that is a long, long, long way off, so a little pick me up was just what it needed.<br />
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I cleared one shelf off at a time and gave it a good cleaning.<br />
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I lucked out because the roll was the same width as my shelves. Amazing. When I marked my paper I left enough room to wrap around the front so the white would be covered...after all, isn't the front of the shelf the one spot you look at the most?<br />
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Once I had my paper cut I rolled it and peeled the backing off the first few inches. I started at the front because that was the most important place to make sure everything was lined up and straight!<br />
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I was also really happy I thought to wrap the paper around the front of the shelf, it gives a nice little detail.<br />
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I love this improvement! Everything was great except when I looked up at the top shelf. </div>
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See, I hadn't planned on doing the top shelf because you couldn't see the top of it. Buutt when I had the brilliant idea to wrap the paper around the front of the shelf (really, it was a good idea, I'm very happy I did that) it meant that I would have to do the top shelf to calm my OCD. So I got on the step stool and did that one too. </div>
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This only took me about 30 minutes, and that included re-organization and cleaning time, so it was definitely a simple, cheap, and pleasant upgrade. </div>
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Soooo, a looong time ago...I <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2014/05/so-we-may-be-hoarding.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">picked up a table</span> </a>that someone was throwing away. I wanted to upcycle the table and put in the sunroom. I mentioned it way way back in a post when we <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2014/07/we-have-sunroom.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">redid the sunroom</span></a>. (Still lovin' that room by the way <3) Yea, I know, you don't remember. I wouldn't either. Here's a reminder...<br />
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It is a little table with a drawer and two wine racks.</div>
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And someone was throwing it away!!!<br />
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If you read the <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2014/05/so-we-may-be-hoarding.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">story of picking it up</span></a>, it's pretty comical...to sum it up, the top was not attached and it created quite a ruckus.<br />
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You can tell how long ago this was because it was before I painted the sunroom walls white haha!<br />
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But this is what I did to it!<br />
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I have worked on this table on and off in between our bigger projects, and I finally finished it. The first thing I did was remove the lovely stone inserts.<br />
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(They are now stepping stones in front of our shed) The inserts came out easily, but I spent a decent amount of time scraping the glue used to hold them in. Then I sanded everything i could get my hands on with with the electric sander and hand sanded the details.<br />
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I covered it with a coat of primer and put a light coat of grey on it.<br />
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With the base well on its way I turned my attention to the table top. I saw this idea on Pinterest and had stashed it away:</div>
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Thus, I had some letters to paint. Oh, and <i> </i>I had to replace the backing of the table top since I tore that off. </div>
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At the top is the original table top, then my new backing. I cut two inserts to go inside the squares to build up the height a bit and then painted letters white to place in the inserts. </div>
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I simply used a little wood glue on the back of each letter (nope, I didn't paint the back, no need) and in 5 minutes the table top was ready. </div>
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It is definitely a unique little piece now, but it fills that spot in the sunroom so well! So there ya have it...something that someone was throwing away. Next time you are throwing something away...call me first!!</div>
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We left off with the office looking like this:<br />
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The next logical step was to paint. There were a few things we could have done (and ideally would have liked to have done) before painting, like installing junction boxes in the ceiling for pendant lights. The problem was that before we had all the cabinets installed, we didn't want to go punching holes everywhere. We wanted to be sure that we liked the placement of things before we committed. This meant installing the cabinets first, and before we installed cabinets, we needed to paint.<br />
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We bought sample sizes of our paint colors to test before we decided on Manhattan Mist as our base color and Milestone (both Behr paint colors, top right and left, respectively in below picture) for an accent wall behind our built in open shelving. And yes, the paint colors aren't exactly true in the picture.<br />
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The first thing we did was patch all the holes in the walls. There were a lot. I don't know how many things have been hung on these walls over the years, but the holes from them have not been taken care of. We put a fresh coat of white on the baseboards, crown molding, and door frames. This wasn't the best first step in painting because it meant I had a lot more edge work to do, but at the time it was the only paint we had on hand and we had the time to do some work (clearly this happened before we bought the rest of the paint haha). When we bought our paint, we also bought a large roll of plastic to cover the floors with.<br />
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We did some tag teaming and The Engineer tore the other window <i>stool</i> (explanation on window <i>sill</i> vs. window <i>stool</i> <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/03/getting-ready-for-new-office.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">here</span></a>) off and removed all the cover plates, air vents, and laundry room doors.</div>
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I then went right into cutting in with the base grey. I free hand all this because I have a steady hand and feel that it is much more worth my time to go slow than it is to tape everything off. Everyone is different, and this is just my preference. I'm sure a lot of people would prefer to tape off the molding first. </div>
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Daineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260022874738613687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062731599151924929.post-4932305553799458822015-03-13T10:12:00.003-07:002015-03-13T10:12:50.099-07:00Getting Ready for a New OfficeHello, hello, hello! Are you ready for a new office? We sure are over here!<br />
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The plan from the get go when we moved into our house just over a year ago was always to make the third bedroom an office. Since then, it has been a black-hole-junk-pit-where-things-go-to-die :( We have to prioritize each project and this wasn't exactly at the top of the list. When we finish a project, we consider what we need as well as what we want, before deciding what project we will tackle next. The truth was...we <i>needed</i> a place for more organization in the house.<br />
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Without an office we have no place for mail, bills, crafts, office supplies, etc. Our kitchen island and dining room table are storage places for any important papers that we have to take care of and I do not like that! That is not where that stuff is supposed to be. We finally said enough was enough and decided it was time to take on the office. <3<br />
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I think we spent the better part of a weekend on the floor of the office brainstorming, measuring, drawing plans, re-planning, looking through inspiration pictures, and re-planning again. We knew we wanted some sort of built-ins, storage for cleaning supplies (vacuum, mop, broom), office space, extra storage for mementos, and a space for guests in the future.<br />
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I pinned a lot of pictures of office spaces on Pinterest, but this one really spoke to us.<br />
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The layout of this room was similar to ours with the window, and we loved the idea of a floating desk! We won't be copying this exactly, but it is our inspiration and in the end I know you will be able to see the similarities. </div>
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Here is what we were working with, looking toward the front of the room...<br />
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In the top picture we are standing in the back of the room looking out the front window. The double french doors on the left lead to the rest of the house.<br />
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In the bottom of the picture we see those same french doors on the right and our second bathroom in the back (which contains our only real shower) and the laundry closet peeking on the left. We are definitely going to redo that bathroom in the future (hopefully sooner rather than later), so no judgments!<br />
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It is a big space, but we literally didn't own anything but random stuff that just ended up in there out of lack of any place else to put it.<br />
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Here is what we planned to do:<br />
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1. Use Ikea kitchen cabinets (yes, we love Ikea stuff, and it works great for us) to create built in cabinetry along the front wall for our desk area. This would act as the major storage in the room.<br />
2. Drop the counter top height in front of the window to create a desk and...<br />
3. Build a second 'floating desk'<br />
4. Build open shelving above the back wall of cabinetry.<br />
5. Create another seating area made up of a built in bench (with storage under the seat) and table.<br />
6. Frame windows.<br />
7. Add lighting.<br />
8. Purchase large love seat with a pull out couch for extra sleeping space when needed.<br />
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To help us in out planning, we used masking tape on the floor to show where our lower cabinets would fall.<br />
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We pulled the desk out of the sun room to imitate the floating desk and placed a chair at the window where the fixed desk will be. We also shoved all the cabinets and dressers we had in there against the wall where the lower cabinets were planned to give us a feeling of they layout. This helped us make sure we liked the design and that there was a good flow through the room.<br />
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Once we were confident in the direction we were going we started some prep work.<br />
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In doing this prep work, I learned something new. What I have called a window <i>sill</i> my entire life...is actually a window <i>stool</i>. WHAT?! The window sill is the actual framing that a window rests on. The window stool is the decorative piece added to close it in and make it look nice. Mind blown.<br />
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So we removed the window <i>stools</i>.<br />
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In our plan, the lower cabinets overlap the window by a few inches. We would not have been able to get the cabinets against the wall with the inch or so that the stool sticks out. We didn't care for the marble stools that we had, so we ripped 'em out. With the plan to frame the windows, we will be replacing these with wood anyway. </div>
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They popped right off with a little elbow grease. The Engineer just cut the caulk around the stool with a utility knife and gently (and repeatedly) hit the bottom with a hammer to get it loose.<br />
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We moved everything out of the room to give us a clean work space (less the two heavy armiores haha), making the rest of the house a complete mess now. I guess the mess just comes with the territory right? With all the junk gone, you can clearly see the taped out areas for the built in cabinets.<br />
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A tall 30 inch wide pantry-like unit will be on the far left with one 24-inch cabinet next to it. From there we will drop a piece of counter top to desk height in front of the window. On the right side of the window we will return to counter height with a set of 24 inch drawers, and wrapping around the wall will be a corner cabinet unit and an end cabinet. Lastly we will have a desk on casters to move around when we want to use it in different areas of the room.<br />
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With everything out of the room we had easy access to the crown molding that needed some attention. There were a lot of places that were not flush with the wall and there were noticeable gaps everywhere. We got some paintable caulk and filled those prior to painting the molding :)<br />
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While The Engineer was doing that, I was testing some paint colors on the wall. During our previous Home Depot trip we were trying to decide what color we wanted to paint the room. The $3 sample paints were totally worth it to us because when we got our base color (bottom right below) it looked so light to us! So we picked up a sample of a slightly darker grey too (top right), just in case. We also grabbed a sample of a dark grey (top left) that we would be using as an accent wall. <br />
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I was really glad that we used the samples because our original pick was spot on and our 'safety' color was definitely too dark!<br />
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The Engineer also moved a light switch for me!</div>
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The light switches for the bathroom were on the outside, which irked me to no end. Whhhyyyy??? So he flipped it around for me! Well, maybe not just for me...the built in bench is slated to go on this wall, and the light switch was going to be in the way of the backing of the bench. By flipping the switch to the inside of the bathroom, we were getting it out of the way, and we knew we would be covering the hole up with the bench! Win.<br />
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We turned the power off and The Engineer marked all the wires and disconnected everything.<br />
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Now, my switches for the bathroom are actually in the bathroom. We have a hole on the outside for now, but like I said, we will cover that up when we build the bench. I don't think I got a picture of the finished switch, but I'll include it in another post for you.<br />
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With these things out of the way, we are ready for paint. I'll putting together a painting post, and I'll be right behind that with the cabinet builds ;-)<br />
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Have a great weekend all! We're busy over here!Daineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260022874738613687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062731599151924929.post-65393828778176147762015-03-05T07:51:00.003-08:002015-03-05T07:51:55.584-08:00Wood Fence: Part IIHi guys, I missed you last week! Don't worry though, we've been busy :)<br />
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We've got a new wood fence on the side of the house! I love, love, love it! In Part I (<a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/02/wood-fence-part-i.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">here</span></a>) we installed all all the pre-fabricated panels. This left all the hard stuff...building the fence around/through the trees.<br />
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The Engineer and I debated about this a bit before we dove into it. We were concerned that it would look...well for lack of a better word...crappy. After some brainstorming we settled on three options to deal with the tree situation.<br />
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1. Cut the trees down.<br />
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We don't have any attachment to these trees so if they were gone it wouldn't be a big loss. There are a lot of other trees in our yard and in the neighbors yard that would give us more than enough shade in the summer time.<br />
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2. Build boxes around the trees.<br />
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This option had us bumping the fence out around the trees and back to the property line after the trees. Unfortunately, the 'bumps' would be on our property and we would be losing some space.<br />
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3. Custom build the rails and slats directly into the trees.<br />
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Choosing this option would take a decent bit of time and cutting to get the fence slats to align to the very not square trees haha!<br />
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I did not like option number two, I just thought these random boxes around trees would look dumb. The Engineer was hesitant about option number three because he was worried that we wouldn't be able to make it look nice enough (totally valid concern). Option number one would have made the fence look the most normal, but it was going to be a lot of work to take the trees in question out. And they were hanging over the neighbors house...not ideal.<br />
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I told The Engineer that we could make option three work if we just took our time and he agreed. So off we went making stuff up!<br />
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We had two gaps to fill: the first one had two trees that were growing in a V shape, and the fence was going directly through the V, and the second was a tree that started on our side of the fence way back when and has since grown over to the neighbors side. This is the span with the V trees in it and may I take a second to point out that during this process the house next door was painted and it looks so nice now! Yay! Makes me want to paint our house now. Many things ahead of that though :(<br />
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We had one thing working in our favor. In both of these gaps, we had a clear shot to the other side for the top rail (each fence panel has three horizontal rails that the fence slats are attached to). So, first we used a combinations of spacers, clamps, and a level to get the top rail (a 1 x 4) attached to both fence posts.<br />
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For the mid and bottom rails we had to get a little more creative. In the V we actually screwed our horizontal supports directly to the tree. This may create some problems in the future as the tree grows, but we will keep an eye on it and make adjustments over the years as necessary.<br />
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The middle of the V did take more time because we had to custom cut each slat. We also had to step down the height of the fence because the elevation was dropping toward the front of the yard. All things considered, I was pretty darn happy with how it was turning out!<br />
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Is it 100% perfect? Not quite, but given what we had to work through (pun intended) I think it turned out just fine. </div>
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Now our back yard is nicely defined by a crisp new fence. It is so much nicer to look at than the old chain link!<br />
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Remember? Yuck, yuck, and oh yea, yuck.<br />
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Our next project has taken us back inside...if you follow me on Instagram or Facebook you saw me post some paint choices. We are finally renovating the office! I'm not sure if renovating is the correct term...we are starting from scratch really, since there is nothing in that room but randomly stored items. We have some big plans and I'm pumped to share them along the way. I'm hoping to get a post up soon detailing our ideas so you can follow along. Thanks for stopping by!</div>
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<br />Daineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260022874738613687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062731599151924929.post-78400120961315554952015-02-18T11:53:00.003-08:002015-02-18T11:59:03.879-08:00Wood Fence: Part I<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As far as ranking favorite projects at the house
go...the dry bar (post on that</span> <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2014/10/theres-finished-dry-bar-in-our-house.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">here</span></a>) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">is definitely up there, but I think the new wood
fence on the side of the house on the top of the list for me as well. A new
wood fence isn't the most glamorous or flashy thing in the world. I mean its not a
brand new kitchen, but when you disliked the previous chain link fence with
green privacy slats as much as I did, a brand spankin' new wood fence feels
like the best thing since sliced bread!</span><br />
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In the last post we <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/02/removing-oh-so-ugly-chain-link-fance.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">ripped out the ugly chain link fence</span></a>. </div>
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materials to start building the new fence, which quite honestly maxed out our
little truck!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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unfortunate part of this project. I suppose it’s not the property line itself that
is the problem, but rather the things that are on the property line. There are
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was approximately 80 ft. long and we started in the back where we would have
our longest run of pre-constructed panels. Our plan was to use pre-constructed
panels where possible (the cost turns out to be the same as buying the
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almost immediately ran into root problems. Because some of the trees on our property are
so old, their roots are pretty substantial and we immediately resorted to
cutting them with the Sawzall. Any other method would have taken much more time
and patience :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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held off until the morning to attach the panel. No reason to work in the dark :) We admired our two
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first panel attached in no time. We shimmed the panel at the bottom to allow
some clearance. With the wood away from the dirt it will be less prone to
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If you recall from the demo of the chain link (</span></span><a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/02/removing-oh-so-ugly-chain-link-fance.html" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">) we </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">didn't</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> dig up the concrete bases form the posts with the hope
that we </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">wouldn't</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> have many new posts falling in the same position. Our bet paid off
and we only had to dig one out. To get it out we dug around it until we could
wiggle it and then attached ratchet straps to it and pulled! Point for us!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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difficult areas around the trees. I’ll catch you in the next post for that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Daineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260022874738613687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062731599151924929.post-63347785994091778662015-02-12T14:08:00.001-08:002015-02-12T14:08:49.296-08:00Removing the (oh so ugly) chain link fanceYou guys! We got rid of the chain link fence! Do you know how <i>excited</i> I am?! I don't. think. you. do. That's ok though :) I'm <i>so so so excited</i>. The chain link fence with its green privacy slats was such an eye sore for me. The fence along the back and on the opposite side of the house are both wood, so it was out of place on top of being ugly.<br />
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In my last post I mentioned that a few friends<span style="color: purple;"> <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/02/hubby-fixed-hot-water.html" target="_blank">offered to help</a></span> The Engineer fix the pipes under the house. However, he finished that task so quickly that we instead asked them to help us remove the fence. Thank goodness for the extra hands!<br />
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The Engineer and I actually started work on the fence a week before on a whim. The long-winded story of how this all got started is as follows:<br />
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The house next door is a rental property and is now in between tenants. The owner is doing some pretty serious work to fix it up (!!!) so we knew it would be a perfect time to replace the fence. A landscape crew came and did a ton of tree trimming on that property (which was a good thing) and they cut everything on their side of the fence up to the property line. Again, this was great because it needed to be done, but there were a few tree limbs that they cut which we needed to cut all the way back to the tree trunks on our side.<br />
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One evening after work we went out there with the chain saw and clippers and cut everything in sight.<br />
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We did have a problem when it came to cutting the stumps off the trees though...the chain link fence was in the way.<br />
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Since it was already evening, we only removed enough to get to the tree. We took the top bar so we could bend the chain link away from the tree. With the top bar removed, I actually used that bar to hold the fence away from the tree while The Engineer cut a notch in the bottom of the stump.<br />
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Enter friends who didn't know what they were getting themselves into (insert evil laugh here). With the help of Tanner, Birelle, and Jason, we got the rest of the fence down in a three of four hour session. I think if it was just The Engineer and myself we would have been out there all day!</div>
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From previous experience removing a few random posts elsewhere in our yard, we knew that the posts were concreted in the ground. We didn't want to go through the trouble of digging them out, releasing them from their root captors, and heaving all that weight out of the ground, so we opted to dig to the concrete and cut the posts off. In doing this, we were running the risk of having to remove one of the concrete bases if a new fence post happened to fall in the same spot, but this was a risk we were willing to take (spoiler: it paid off, we only had to remove one).</div>
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I think Tanner did get a little consumed with the Sawzall because once all the fence posts were cut, he then proceeded to cut any and every rogue stump or limb he could find! I think I know a good gift for this guy :)</div>
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Removing the chain link is already an upgrade in my eyes, but I am SO excited to get the new fence in!</div>
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A huge thanks to Tanner, Brielle, and Jason for their hard work! And thanks to all of you for reading. You know what to expect next around here:-D</div>
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Last weekend The Engineer bypassed the rupture and re-piped the hot water line to the bathroom and laundry room :-D No more showers in the tub!<br />
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Now there aren't too many pictures of this fix...because it was in the crawl space. The Engineer has been down there on a number of occasions for a number of reasons, but he is such a good hubby that he hasn't made me go down there yet! I really just wanted to give you guys an update from<span style="color: purple;"> <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-little-of-life-lately.html" target="_blank">this post in December</a></span> where I listed some things in the house that were having major problems ;-/<br />
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The portion of the house with the bathroom and laundry room is an addition to the original house. The crawl space there is separate from the rest of the house, meaning we had to reopen the <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2014/06/happy-accidents.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">tiny access hole</span></a> under the washing machine The Engineer created to fix a leak back when we moved in. </div>
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We didn't let them off the hook that easily though. Getting ahead of schedule allowed us to start on our next project...the fence on the side of the house (<i>SO EXCITED FOR THIS GUYS!!!!</i>) We had them help us rip out the chain link fence so we could put up a new wood one. Thank goodness because it was a lot of work. There are numerous trees on the property line that had grown into the fence and wound their roots around every bit of the bottom of the fence. </div>
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Say goodbye! I really hated this fence. I don't like chain link fences, and I <i>really</i> don't like the green privacy slats that were in there. I'm honestly cringing looking at the pictures again. </div>
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Now you know, we have hot water again and I am super stoked to be installing a new wood fence :) </div>
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Unfortunately we didn't paint the shed itself, but that task is on the 'someday list'.<br />
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We did extend the path to the new door location though!<br />
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We have black plastic garden borders (these were already in place for the shell path when we moved in and there were some extra pieces stashed behind then shed, score!) that were easy to pull up and move. To 'install' these borders I just dig a 4 inch trench for the border, place the border in said trench, and pack it in with dirt.<br />
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When I talked about putting <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/01/mulching-path.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">mulch down</span></a> in our path I also mentioned that I consulted out stock pile of pavers to make a little landing at the door.<br />
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On the side of the shed, there was an old set of bars from the house windows that had been repourposed as a planter for a jasmine vine.<br />
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I loved the idea, but the bars were so so rusted. All they needed was a fresh coat of paint though, erm...and a good sanding first haha! Since there are no plans of returning this to the window it came from and it will remain outside in the dirt with a plant growing all over it, I didn't feel the need to make it 100% perfect. I just wanted to give it a face lift and protect the metal a little.<br />
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I took the jasmine off as gently as I could, but I had to sacrifice a little bit of it because it was wound around itself a little too much. Then I very roughly sanded the metal to get the big chunks of rust and flaking paint off. Like I said, this wasn't going to be perfect, but I also wanted to put enough effort into it as to not make the whole deal pointless.<br />
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With the bars sanded it only took me 2.5 cans of spray paint to get it looking a little more presentable. By no means is it perfect, but at a glance it looks infinitely better and there will be a vine growing all over it eventually.<br />
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The Engineer helped me move the bars back over to the shed (shockingly heavy) and I replanted the jasmine in front it it and 'draped' it over the bars. I also planted cordyline red sister plants along the shed to add some color :)<br />
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The new shed location is so nice and I feel so much better about that corner now that no mans land behind the shed is gone! These last few touches make the whole area much more presentable.<br />
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Did anyone notice what is in the background behind the shed? If you <a href="http://instagram.com/daines55/" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">follow me on Instagram</span></a> you know we bought new fence panels this weekend :-D :-D Can't say I'm not super excited for that project ;-)Daineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260022874738613687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062731599151924929.post-5485091996964191502015-01-23T07:15:00.003-08:002015-01-23T07:15:33.897-08:00Because the bedroom needs love too. Hey guys! Happy Friday! How was your week? Mine is rockin since we gave the bedroom some love. Because it was completely functional, we haven't done anything in there since we moved in. In our first two weeks in the house, we ripped out the innards of the old closet and installed a closet system we already had to give us some extra hanging space and we built Ikea wardrobes in lieu of using dressers.<br />
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Sorry for the grainy cell phone pictures...we have weird light in our room and this was a long time ago! The wardrobes fit very nicely in a large alcove on the left side of room.<br />
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I did one more project in our bedroom before we abandoned it completely and that was<span style="color: purple;"> <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2014/04/closet-door-upgrade.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">re-facing the closet doors</span></a></span> because I could not stand looking at them. True story.<br />
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Since then its been pretty quiet. Lets recap what we've got in the bedroom. There is a bed. Right in the middle. Thank goodness because it wouldn't be much of a room without a bed huh? The bed is on the back wall of the room between two windows. It is cozy with a duvet/duvet cover. There was a nail on the wall above the bed where I randomly hung a nice little wood bicycle picture The Engineer got for me when he was down in the Keys. So thoughtful that guy :) This was by no means a permanent home for this little picture, but it was much better than having nothing up there. I bought two long rugs, one on the main side of the bed and the other is identical but at the foot of the bed because we walk there all the time. A side note on the runners - I had to put a rug gripper pad under them because they are slippery death traps on the wood floor. With the rug grip pads there are no problems at all.<br />
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I think we were in the house about five or six months when I got fed up with the lack of a night stand and got the pair pictured below (we had one night stand but it was on The Engineer's side of the bed and the night stand that I previously used in our apartment had been reallocated to the guest bedroom because we confiscated the old night stand from there and <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2014/04/cabinet-upcycle.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">upcycled it</span></a> - it now resides in our dining room). You also might take notice of the inconspicuous extension cords on the floor. These extension cords are located as such because there are no electrical outlets on the back wall. Yeah, I know. It is unfortunate. On the left side of the bed we at least thought this through and ran extension cords from the plug behind the wardrobes when we installed them so we would have access to the power. On the right side there is just a cord plugged into the wall. This is a problem we have yet to address properly, for now we have extension cords spaghettied on our floor. On the right side of the bed is one of our floor lamps. There is not a light kit in the ceiling fan and no built in lighting. Sadly, the only wall switch controls the ceiling fan so you have to fumble around with the lamps in the dark to get some light.<br />
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We had thrown around the idea of a sofa table for the wall pictured above. However, our bed is longer than the average bed because it has sliding storage at the foot. After some brainstorming we thought a long shelf on the wall would work well. I had also just bought a set of picture frames that I wanted to hang on this wall so the two upgrades complimented each other.<br />
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To build the shelf we purchased a long board (from Home Depot) and three EKBY HENSVIK brackets (from Ikea). While at Ikea we also purchased a table lamp with a toggle switch with the hope that it would be easy to turn on in the dark. We didn't purchase the shelf from Ikea because we wanted one that was about the same length of the wall. Additionally, a raw board allowed us to do whatever we wanted to with it. The brackets were white and we decided to stain the shelf with stain we had left over from another project.<br />
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The only problem with this was that once a full coat was on, we <i>hated</i> it. It wasn't that we didn't like the color, but it was<b> so red</b>. It was just too much for our room. The bed and wardrobes are already different colors, putting in a red shelf just didn't seem right.<br />
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So I sanded it all off and started over. I wasn't even that disappointed because I knew in the end we would be much happier. We knew white would do the trick, so off the stain came, and on white paint went.<br />
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With a dry shelf, brackets, and our pictures, we got to work on sprucing up the wall. We first tried to pull the old security panel off only to find that the screws have square heads. <i>Really</i>? We left that there for now, but we are going to try to jam an allen wrench in there or use pliers to get them out before we go buy a square attachment. We still need to do that...<br />
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The picture frame set I bought (not my typical style to buy a set like this, but I saw it in Bed Bath & Beyond when we were spending the last of our wedding gift cards and really liked it) came with a paper guide for hanging. SO NICE! We just taped it up on the wall (leveled, of course) and nailed directly through the paper.<br />
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We hung the pictures only to find that they weren't very well balanced. I used command strips to secure one corner of all the pictures so they would sit straight :)<br />
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We then brought the shelf in and eyeballed where we wanted it height wise. While The Engineer held the shelf level, I marked the center and two outside locations for the brackets with a horizontal line under the shelf. We then mounted the brackets with the top screw directly on these lines (which moved the shelf height up about two inches, but we had accounted for that).<br />
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This method actually worked perfectly and the shelf came out completely level. The table lamp we bought was going on this new shelf. We decided to drill a hold for the cord to pass through the shelf to make it look a little nicer. We just used gradually increasing bit sizes until the plug could fit through. The lamp sits directly on top of the hole so we didn't even bother painting the inside or anything like that.<br />
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We screwed the shelf to the brackets and pulled the lamp cord through the pre-drilled hole and bam! We now have a wonderful wall with pictures, a shelf, and a little lamp.<br />
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We still need to remove the rest of the security panel and put a key hook in its place and secure the lamp cord under the shelf and mount a cord hider on the wall for it. We also need to take care of our extension cords that provide power to our night stands.<br />
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I am planning some nice art to go above the head board and I am on the hunt for some furniture to put along the wall on the right of the bed. Perhaps an upholstered bench or a small table and chairs. I shall see what I find! For now though, these simple little changes have made our room so much more lovable.<br />
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That's all for now, I have some project prep to work on for the weekend :) Thanks for stopping by!Daineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09260022874738613687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5062731599151924929.post-73596033528169563252015-01-15T05:11:00.001-08:002015-01-15T05:11:43.363-08:00The start of a gardenHowdy ya'll! I'm pretty excited to share this post because it's about something I've been dreaming about for awhile. The final product is still a long way off, but starting is exciting!<br />
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I'm talking about a garden people!!<br />
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Having a legitimate garden is something I have wanted for a long time. Sadly it was not an item that was on the very top of the house To Do list. With the work we have been doing in the back yard this month (<a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/01/we-moved-shed-whole-5-feet.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">moving the shed</span></a>, tending to the grass, and <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2015/01/mulching-path.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">mulching our path</span></a>) we just picked it up one night because we weren't ready to stop working. <br />
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The majority of the yard is pretty heavily shaded but there is one section on the side of the house that gets a decent amount of sun throughout the day. It is its own little area that we didn't have any other ideas for so putting the garden there is perfect! This is also where our lemon tree is located, so it fits the theme well.<br />
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We have already done some work on this area. A long time ago we <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2014/03/yard-demolition.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">removed the overgrown bushes</span></a> that were taking up space, we <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-well-lives.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">revived the irrigation well</span></a>, and we <a href="http://trimyworld.blogspot.com/2014/08/make-way.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">moved the fence</span></a> a little to make use of some dead space behind it.<br />
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I had planned all along to build raised beds for the garden. Perhaps one of the main reasons was to make use of the million and one pavers/cinder blocks we have dug up from our yard. </div>
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I still have no idea why there are SO many pavers. We've found all different types all over the yard, some buried under others! We are still dinning them up every time we do something new in the yard. Our biggest pile by far was a stash of old-school cinder blocks. I knew these would be perfect to build a raised bed with. Oh, and they were free!<br />
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We started in the garden area by...oh wait, wait, I'll let you guess. </div>
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We started by PULLING UP MORE PAVERS!!! Duh. </div>
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Not sure if its clear, but everything you see in the above picture that appears to be the ground is actually a paver. </div>
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We're total pro's at paver removal though. </div>
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These are all the pavers we pulled from that little area (actually not even all of them, these are only the ones that weren't broken). They never stop I swear. </div>
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We already had planned the general idea of what our raised beds were going to look like and where we were going to place them. We roughly placed the first layer of blocks and played with the shape a bit until we liked what we had. No precise measurements here folks. </div>
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Once we were happy we went ahead and leveled the ground under the blocks and started stacking as we had planned/had enough blocks to build our box three cinder blocks high. Since these cinder blocks are older, their size is a little smaller than the average block you are accustomed to seeing. Because of their odd size, they didn't stagger well in a staggered fashion so we started by stacking on top of each other. </div>
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We had done some reading to determine if we needed to add any support to the walls to prevent the pressure of the dirt and plants from pushing them outward. After deciding that we didn't need to do anything extra, I knew that it wasn't going to work if we didn't stagger the blocks. There was no structural integrity at all. I went ahead and tried to stagger the cinder blocks. I had avoided this the first time around since this creates some gaps but it was 100% stronger and worth the trouble of filling the gaps. </div>
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To fill the gaps The Engineer simply used a hammer to break apart some extra blocks to fit the spots we needed filled. </div>
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I of course made sure that some red pavers we had would fit nicely in the alcove in the front of the bed ;-)</div>
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Our next step was to give the bed some height. From some research, I learned that crushed rock or gravel in the bottom improves drainage and also reduces the amount of soil you need to maintain. The only problem was getting said gravel/rock. Where on earth would we come by that?? Oh yeah, that's right. We have a huge pile of it behind the shop that we have found all over out yard that I had been saving for this exact purpose. Silly me. </div>
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I'm serious, this is real life. Free materials are nice though. We crushed up the pavers and rocks to smaller pieces and loaded our box. </div>
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To cover the rocks we used the dirt we dug up form the path in the back. </div>
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BAM! One raised garden box ready to go! For f.r.e.e. Woot! Ok, it isn't exactly 100% ready to go, but its great that we got this far from materials we already had. Things left to do:</div>
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2. Build a face wall around it for aesthetic purposes (cuz it ain't pretty at the moment).</div>
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We also went really wild and played with some options for a path through the garden. You know, cuz we had a paver or two hanging around. </div>
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Clearly we didn't level the rest of the area haha! Nothing has been decided about the path so don't hold me to it! </div>
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Thanks for stopping by, come back soon to see what else we have gotten ourselves into :)</div>
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