Archive for the ‘House Projects’ Category

16 while the kids are away, the parents will… install shelving.

Our boys are with Nana and Papa tonight so naturally we are going out to dinner renting a chick-flick visiting the museum of modern art cutting trim and installing built-in shelves in our living room. A-like-so: The idea and bones came from the IKEA (where else?) Billy bookshelves, which we bought several of this past weekend [...]

21 not your mother’s hardware store

It’s 5:00 on a week night. Do you know where O My Family is? Why, they’re at the hardware store of course. And no, they didn’t get a babysitter this time, they brought the kiddo along. And that store? Well, it’s not for the faint of heart. There are no helpful folks in orange aprons [...]

25 concerned? don’t be.

OBaby: as good a construction cheerleader as there ever was (with the exception perhaps of the needing to be sequestered thing). Yes, he was safe. Yes he was far from the action. No he could not reach anything dangerous (or anything at all). No, he was not breathing in anything dangerous. Yes, we were smart [...]

28 O My Dormer.

Remember that thing I said in the “before” post about the “We might as well just move the walls around while we’re at it.” realization we had? Well, somewhere along the line, and I can’t recall exactly when it was, that “Let’s move walls.” became “Let’s rip off half of our house’s roofline and build [...]