We're a $300 gift certificate richer, thanks to Houseblogs.net. Very excited about this! It will be nice to have the money to buy new materials for a project for once... and not have to search for them used (though, I do enjoy that immensely most of the time!)...
... or maybe I should just buy a few more router bits for the router I got for my birthday! What a birthday present.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Welcome Back?
Some flu, some bronchitis... coughing, bruised ribs, fevers ... that's how our two months have been. It amazes me that I still woke myself up coughing last night, two months after coughing for the first time. I will say that Delsym is a miracle cough syrup, that tomato soup and saltines is the only palatable thing at many points, and that my husband and I are very lucky to have each other to take care of us!
Needless to say, not much has happened on the house. There is a door leaning against the water heater closet waiting to be installed and a new router and table received as a birthday present waiting to be used for the first time. The new old front door is still waiting half stripped in the garage. Even the backyard was left in a state of half completion... leaves need raked and composted, weeds mowed, tools put away.
I'll raise a glass of orange juice to continued improving health... and to getting back to our Tiny Old House!
Needless to say, not much has happened on the house. There is a door leaning against the water heater closet waiting to be installed and a new router and table received as a birthday present waiting to be used for the first time. The new old front door is still waiting half stripped in the garage. Even the backyard was left in a state of half completion... leaves need raked and composted, weeds mowed, tools put away.
I'll raise a glass of orange juice to continued improving health... and to getting back to our Tiny Old House!
After we got the keys to our house...
the first thing we did was move the washer and dryer from the kitchen. (Yes, I'm entering the contest that Houseblogs.net is offering! I could sure use that $300 gift certificate from True Value!) I've never been a big fan of spaghetti sauce near my clean clothes, and so the weekend after we moved in we moved the washer/dyer hookups from the east side of the kitchen to the back room. Moving the water hook-ups was relatively easy, as the back room shares the wet wall with the sink/dishwasher from the kitchen; moving the 220 electrical line for the dryer was a trickier reroute and fish from the attic. Luckily, we had help from family with the project!
Here's the new laundry center (with a pretty puppy in the middle of her shave down on top):
Here is where the laundry center used to be...
The fridge used to be where the nice hutch is in the second picture. The rest of the kitchen counterspace and appliances are off to the left. We think that THIS is a much better use of space!
And, of course, the rest of the kitchen; you can see that stained glass window in the laundry picture, too:
The laundry room is through the door on the right (with the white gate); the current fridge/pantry is to the right.
This post was written for Houseblogs.net as part of a sweepstakes sponsored by True Value.
Here's the new laundry center (with a pretty puppy in the middle of her shave down on top):
Here is where the laundry center used to be...
The fridge used to be where the nice hutch is in the second picture. The rest of the kitchen counterspace and appliances are off to the left. We think that THIS is a much better use of space!
And, of course, the rest of the kitchen; you can see that stained glass window in the laundry picture, too:
The laundry room is through the door on the right (with the white gate); the current fridge/pantry is to the right.
This post was written for Houseblogs.net as part of a sweepstakes sponsored by True Value.
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