Archive for the 'General' Category
Convert sunroom into a bedroom
Since the basement is not gonna happen before my parents come to visit we deceided to convert the sunroom into the temporary bedroom. Took out the ugly green carpet, painted the walls with leftover chocolate froth and place some nice looking vinyl tile from Armstrong on top of the wooden floor. Curtains from IKEA.
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Kitchen Backsplash
Finally today the mosiac tile came in from Cooltiles.com. Extremly pleased with how the tile looks.
Saturday tileday.
Today i went to Lowes to buy the neccecary tools and materials; white, thinset adhesive, nonsanded grout. Installation tools include a 3/16′ X 5/32′ V-notched trowel, a piece of wood such as a short piece of 2 x 4 [...]
Little projects
Rest of the week i was to busy to do to much work at the house. I spent some time at Ikea and found this window frosting to put on windows. Since our frontdoor had these ugly shades i thought it would be good ideas to replace these with some cheap frosting. This would bring [...]
Water Leak
After i bought all materials to remodel the basement we had a leak in the main water supply. Water was flooding the basement and i had to call United Water to shut off the main water supply. To my suprise this took them 3 hours to come to the house! I was happy the leak [...]
Power Outage
Since we had a power outage in our area (big thunderstorms), i finished painting (moss green) the stairwell and hallway and put up some new roman shades. And Cat made some photos from the yard and garden.
I also updated the ToDo list.


