Category: making things

Homey Stuff II

October 15, 2002

Well, today I went and got the moulding for putting around the ceiling of my bedroom. I also got a router. A router is the one thing I’ve been needing in order to finish working on building my new bed. The best part of getting the router, though… I’ll start from the beginning. When I was at Home Depot earlier today getting the moulding, I saw this $59.99 Ryobi router that seemed to be just about everything I needed. It locks so bit changes are easy, pistol grip handles with a locking on/off switch on the handle, 1 1/2 HP, easily adjustable, and cheap. So, that all works out. I go home, get the $25 Home Depot Gift Certificate that I got from my sister and brother-in-law for my birthday, then head over there. Well, when I was grabbing the gift certificate, I found another one gift cert that I thought had maybe $1 or $2 left on it. I took it along, figuring I’d use it up. When I got to the cash register it turns out that this gift card somehow had $50 on it. So there we go. Free router! Woo!

I’m going to borrow my dad’s Black And Decker Workmate and his chop saw. Then I’ll be able to cut the moulding, route out the mortises on the bed, and generally keep progressing towards a nice looking, comfortable bedroom, complete with a big, soft, comfy bed. Yay!

But now, it’s time for bed. I’m Mr. Sleepyhead and tomorrow night is the Underworld show. Woo! I took Wednesday off, that will be a good day of rest. Maybe I’ll get started on the bedroom then. I need to pull everything away from the walls, wash the walls, patch the little nail holes, clean up calk overflow from when the place was build, then start tacking up the moulding. After that comes the hardest part. Picking out colors. Then painting, then I’ll move all the furnature out, clean the carpet with my parents steam cleaner, then it’ll be all good to go.

Somewhere in there needs to be time to clean the bathrooms, eat, do laundry, and just generally live. Gah! heh.

June 26, 2002

What a wonderful storm we had today. I arrived home from work just in time to see the deep purple, grey, and blue clouds boiling up above my house. I wandered around outside a little, came in, then the downpour started.

It was just so wonderful… The lightning, the rain, the wind, everything just right.

Tonight I started work on two projects. Well, one of them is actually a continuation of something I was doing about a year ago. Tonight I put the first coat of paint on the door leading from my laundry room into the garage. It was half painted the original builder’s tan, and the other half was the aweful flat gray my uncle painted most of this place when my grandparents lived here. Now both sides have an initial coat of the green smokish color that my kitchen and laundry room both are.

The other thing I started back on was building a bed. About a year ago I decided that I wanted a nice solid wood bed. Since nice solid wood beds are prohibitively expensive, I decided to build one. It’s a solid oak mission style bed. I think it will be finished in a fairly standard darker oak color to match the furnature that is already in my bedroom. Some new hardware on the furnature, a new ceiling fan, lamps, and some other accessories and the bedroom should look good. It’ll also be nice to have a queen sized bed instead of the twin that I’ve had my whole life. If you’re interested in seeing pictures, they are in the newest catagory at the standard place.

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