Finding stories in everyday adventures
Before Our dresser as shown above in the photos went through a major makeover. This was always the plan, when we bought this used dresser off Craigslist. The original tan color was all worn out, and had marks all over. Worse thing is that the drawers were in horrible shape, with the old fashioned rails which were broken and would sag if drawn out. When Oliver started messing with these drawers, I knew it was …
For a long time, the hot tub in our patio was a luxury that we could never enjoy. When we bought our Chesterfield house, we had high hopes that the hot tub will work, but it never did. When we got it looked at by a skilled technician, we found that it has a leak which will take a lot of $$$ to diagnose and fix. We even had home warranty for it, but it …
Before This is our old and worn out mailbox and was like this when we bought the house. In a year timeframe it actually got worse and the post was leaning forward causing mailbox to open up (poor magnet too). One time, it got opened and our mail contents were all over the street. Needless to say it was a time for an upgrade During The old 2×2 mailbox post was completely unusable. The wooden …
Late last year I started updating Electricals in our 1900s Foursquare. Over the 100+ years of this historical house, many families have lived and of course they have done their share of updates to the House’s electrical system. When I began, the house had approx. 70-80% of the wiring in the form of dreaded Knob & Tube wiring. Updates made by previous owners had resulted in a mix of all kinds of wiring – K&T, …
Old house and extremely limited shelving in Closets, sounds familiar right? Well, I decided to take care of storage by installing shiny new wire shelving in all the 3 closets we have in the house. Here are some photos of the Master Bedroom closet. I know what you are thinking, it’s so tiny! Yes Sir or Madam, this is an Old house. Back then they did not have large walk-in closets. So before image: Step …
Had a water damaged base of the Under the sink Cabinet. As a result, it was sagging and couldn’t support anything on it. I decided to replace it. It turned out to be a great small project. Bonus: also ended up installing a new Garbage disposal!
Yes! I installed new cold water line for our fridge. All my crimps were good. Very happy to get it right first time.