I’m finally getting to ‘Be Jane’, and it’s been a while so trust me when I say I was going through withdrawals! On my hit list were the following:
Convert the pantry to pull out shelves – see before, during and after photos below.
This one was awesome! So easy in the overall scheme of things. Just took the shelves out, cut them down a bit, added sides, a front and back ‘lip’ to them and then installed drawer glides to make them all now fully extended pull-out shelves. LOVE IT! I can find my macaroni now!
Fix the doorbell – done!
Was just a matter of buying a new doorbell button for a whole $1.39 and taking the old one out (rusted to high heaven) and reattaching the wires to the new unit.
Painted the shed the RIGHT color.
Brown on the top just sucked. So now it looks much lighter and brighter – photo also below.
Today I went to my friend’s house and am teaching her how to Be Jane.
We tore out her old carpet, took up the carpet tack strips and tomorrow we’re installing Pergo flooring. I told her to first buy some QuiKrete cement patch since we found a bunch of cracks in her foundation. Have to start with a level foundation. If we were doing hardwood, then we'd have to use leveling compound, but for Pergo, the patches should be good.
She and her sons have asthma so the wood flooring will help out a lot. The carpet was old and disgusting and with a dog, just held lots of yuck. So this will be much better. Plus, her mom is in town and they’ve been being Jane all week. They’ve painted pretty much the entire interior of the house and it looks AWESOME!
On my hit list for tomorrow is teaching them both how to install Pergo and use a miter saw. My friend’s mom will then go home and she wants to install it in her manufactured home up in Seattle so she’s excited that she’s getting to learn here.
I’ll post photos of the new floor once it’s done – it’s gonna look awesome!
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This one was awesome! So easy in the overall scheme of things. Just took the shelves out, cut them down a bit, added sides, a front and back ‘lip’ to them and then installed drawer glides to make them all now fully extended pull-out shelves. LOVE IT! I can find my macaroni now!
Was just a matter of buying a new doorbell button for a whole $1.39 and taking the old one out (rusted to high heaven) and reattaching the wires to the new unit.
Brown on the top just sucked. So now it looks much lighter and brighter – photo also below.
We tore out her old carpet, took up the carpet tack strips and tomorrow we’re installing Pergo flooring. I told her to first buy some QuiKrete cement patch since we found a bunch of cracks in her foundation. Have to start with a level foundation. If we were doing hardwood, then we'd have to use leveling compound, but for Pergo, the patches should be good.
She and her sons have asthma so the wood flooring will help out a lot. The carpet was old and disgusting and with a dog, just held lots of yuck. So this will be much better. Plus, her mom is in town and they’ve been being Jane all week. They’ve painted pretty much the entire interior of the house and it looks AWESOME!
On my hit list for tomorrow is teaching them both how to install Pergo and use a miter saw. My friend’s mom will then go home and she wants to install it in her manufactured home up in Seattle so she’s excited that she’s getting to learn here.
I’ll post photos of the new floor once it’s done – it’s gonna look awesome!
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