Turns out you can get it from a lot of things, and, if you’re me, you can get compound carpal tunnel — throughout wrists, fingers, up the arm and the elbow and some in the shoulders. Cripes. But I explained everything I’d managed to do in the course of screwing up muscles/joints so thoroughly, and [...]
Categories: sledgehammer renovation, things and more things
Tagged: carpentry, wild kingdom, workshop
Not the entirety of my todo but it’s at least the doable, not-too-emotinally-stressful, no-failure-fear, house-related part. At least now I can strike off each part and be done with it. (Too bad I’m making the list now rather than three days ago, or I could add: regrout & seal, recaulk master bath, and then knock [...]
Categories: sledgehammer renovation
Tagged: future plans, organization
First, I think it must be the tape measure. Really. I measured the distance from fridge shelf to ceiling at least three times, and was reasonably satisfied that two 30″ high cabinets would come no closer than 4″ to the ceiling, enough room for a strip of drywall, the moulding, blah blah blah.
Err, NO.
Stupid 30″, [...]
Categories: money in money out, sledgehammer renovation
The odd comments here and there about kitchens made me stop and think of what we’ve done so far — as I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and I am, finally, beginning to think it just might not be a giant robot. Yay.
Well, for starters, we replaced every appliance but [...]
Categories: money in money out, sledgehammer renovation
Tagged: budget, future plans, kitchen, organization