Winter 2013

To be honest, I haven't done a lot on my house the last 3-4 months. It has been fairly busy with work and it really just took all my energy to keep up with the projects, training, events, etc that is my career. But as exhausting as it was, I am so fortunate to be doing good work that has impact in my community. Love my job!

I digress...back to the house. Today I spent some time this Easter weekend starting garden clean-up. It may be a bit early but it was so warm and green is already starting to pop through on the parts of the garden that enjoy lots of sunshine.

My garden today

This is called hope.

This is called reality

A clean deck and patio

Besides the garden, here are a few photos of some small projects I did get to this winter to bring you up to speed:

Added some details in the bedroom

Added some pictures/postcards to my closet doors

Decided to get rid of the bathroom curtain and install privacy films

Quite easy to install the privacy film. Love it as it lets the light in so nicely

Rearranged furniture so I could have a place for visitors to sit in the kitchen or another spot to watch the garden.

Replaced the washstand with a small table for my kitchen window

The result of furniture rearrangement in the living room

I also created a library in my office...I thought I had a picture of it in my files but no luck. Will reveal that at a later date.

Then my bedroom door "started" chipping...which isn't a bad thing because it is an off-white color where the rest of the trimmings are bright white. So I helped it along...

Now the front is nearly done...makes quite a mess but fairly easy.

Then I thought it would be fun to learn how to stain furniture. So my guest room chest of drawers went from this Ikea RAST to

 

 To this lovely chest of drawers:

 

Also, this weekend, I tried my hand at caulking. My back room window was getting condensation in between the 2 panes of glass. Upon investigating, I realized that the window was not sealed on the inside. So I thought I have seen people do this therefore I can do it. Small DIY tip for you all: after snipping the tip off the caulking tube, DO NOT forget to poke the seal on the inside of the tube or you will have the mess I experienced with the caulking squishing out the other end and all over the caulking gun. If I had "you-tubed" how-to-caulk, I would have learn about this secret seal. It also would have been handy for the manufacturers to put opening instructions on the product...just saying. 

The next thing on my to-do is try to determine why my washing machine decided to leak all over the basement floor this weekend. Super fun!