Category : Home Renovation

Red Roof On

Posted on: 17 June 2010 /
Categories: Home Renovation, Projects

Cost me $4,500 or something crazy, you’d think I’d be willing to take a real photograph of it. It’s probably raining outside though. Or it’s hot. Either way. The new roof is sort of a reddish brown. You can’t really see the color in the photo. Cell phone pic. It’s been weird having people come

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Some Painted Rooms, Whatever

Posted on: 15 June 2010 /
Categories: Home Renovation, Projects

Posting about Half Dome and Boundary Waters was a lot more engaging. Try it yourself, prove me wrong. (Or right.) Tape ball, before and after: Weight: 0. Weight: equivalent to three rolls of 1 1/2-inch masking tape, three spiders, and a gnat carcass. I kind of like sticking random bug bodies into tape balls. Or at

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The Color Wheel of Misfortune

Posted on: 8 June 2010 /
Categories: Home Renovation, Projects

More like “bad decisions” than “misfortune”. Or maybe more like “difficult, non-binding decisions that could not be made without investment of time and money”. Something like that. It’s taken too long to paint the three rooms I’m painting and part of the deal has been color decisions. Before I moved out here, I was thinking

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Latex Paint Dripping on a Human Face — Forever

Posted on: 6 June 2010 /
Categories: Home Renovation, Projects

Painting has taken a long time. It will continue to take a long time. I’d never done ceilings before. It turns out a lot of paint falls onto your face, some gets in your eyes, and especially when you’re trying to do it in low light, it’s pretty hard to see what areas you’ve coated

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I Kilzed It

Posted on: 3 June 2010 /
Categories: Home Renovation, Projects

I’m becoming increasingly incredulous that anything I have posted or will post regarding the renovations of my house has been, will be, or will have been interesting. With that in mind, I applied primer to my walls and ceiling prior to painting. That’s right: primer. Kilz is the brand name of the primer. It seals

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Blue Tape Special

Posted on: 2 June 2010 /
Categories: Home Renovation, Projects

Painting preparation, the great American pastime. Because the cat urine stench alone wasn’t enough to peel paint off the walls. Filling holes. It’s a metal thing nailed into the drywall that kept the tiles in. Hadn’t realized my baseboards were this ugly. The dropping of cloth is complete. Lacks drama. Not edgy enough. It’s 7:12

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Kitchen Plan II: Revenge of the Kitchen

Posted on: 1 June 2010 /
Categories: Home Renovation, Projects

Kind of hit a setback in the blogging department when my laptop’s video card went south on Friday night and stayed there. Laptop is currently north of here, at a shop, getting fixed. Supposedly. It might be fixed under recall — I’m pressing my thumbs in hopeful anticipation. Here’s another thought on the kitchen. It’s

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I Love the Smell of Polyurethane in the Morning

Posted on: 27 May 2010 /
Categories: Home Renovation, Projects

Smells like… victory. Seriously. First coat. The finished wood doesn’t actually look as dark as this. Now I just gotta wait another 72 hours for it to cure. Depending on the lighting, I either really like the natural wood (no stain) look or have continued misgivings about it. Natural light: looks great. Artificial: misgivings. It’s unfair

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Dismantling the Faux-erplace

Posted on: 26 May 2010 /
Categories: Home Renovation, Projects

It was the wackiest thing in the house, bar-none, and now it’s just a Kilz-swipe away from complete extinction. In a sense, I feel bad about destroying such a one-of-a-kind design element. In another sense, not so much. Before vs. after: The cool thing is that if I reversed the order of the photos, it’d

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Plugger of Holes, Douser of Stains, Demolisher of Closets

Posted on: 24 May 2010 /
Categories: Home Renovation, Projects

Woke up late. Went to the Home Despot twice (twice!) to buy hoses for my new used dryer only to find out I got a gas leak in that system somewhere (should I shut the gas off? no, I’m sure it’s harmless). Don’t imagine that’s all that interesting. But filling nail holes with putty? Spellbinding.

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