This entire post is mostly to organize my thoughts, make something I can come back to, refresh my memory so I don’t forget — again. That book I got in college from a friend should’ve had a theme not of, “oh, the places you’ll go,” but “the places you’ll redo.”
Things left undone, by room.
Categories: exteriors, sledgehammer renovation
Tagged: bath, construction, electrical, garden, kitchen, landscape, living room, organization, workshop
First, our garage as it was, for the first year or so of living here:
Then we moved one of the kitchen base cabinets out to the garage…which eventually became my workshop area and general dump-everything space. Sigh.
After that hell-realization of my garage/workshop having been intruded-violated-theived, I began a furious double-reason attack on the space. [...]
Categories: miscellany
Tagged: organization, structural design, workshop
Welcome to Texas: we have a mommy bird and her babies living in our garage.
She comes in and out, feeding them constantly, and she doesn’t seem to mind if I’m within two or three feet, so long as I don’t touch (which I wouldn’t). Considering there’ve been plenty of times I’m out in the garage [...]
Categories: wild kingdom
Tagged: organization, wild kingdom
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
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
My grandmother used to call it “getting or-gin-ized,” where /gin/ is the same as the alcoholic beverage.
Right on the tails of the Amazing Wardrobe Reconstruction, I seem to be feeling this sudden flare-up of Virgoan Organization Syndrome, which is quite peculiar. It only happens about every two or three years, and it’s quite terrifying; there [...]
Categories: money in money out, things and more things, this daily life
Tagged: office, organization, storage