One of the things I did to relieve my frustration last year when my ankle was broken and I couldn’t work on the Schoolhouse was buy things on Craigslist, eBay, and Etsy for the Schoolhouse. It worked. It relieved my frustration (because even though I couldn’t work on the Schoolhouse I found a way to work [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Schoolhouse’
Mapping the World
Posted in Designing, Shopping, tagged Schoolhouse, vintage globe, vintage pull-down map, vintage school map on March 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The power of paint
Posted in Before & After, Designing, tagged Behr, choose paint colors, paint, Russian River, Schoolhouse on January 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Paint is an amazing substance. Looking back over my many projects, I realize I’ve spent an awful lot of time taking it OFF things that shouldn’t have been painted in the first place (or were painted badly) and putting it ON things that needed it. Last week was all about putting it ON. I choose [...]
How to make a zinc island counter (part 3)
Posted in Building, Designing, tagged kitchen island, kitchen remodel, make a zinc counter, Russian River, Schoolhouse on December 22, 2010 | 6 Comments »
In which we actually succeed in making a zinc counter for the kitchen island and it looks GOOD!!! Sunday morning we took off the weights, unscrewed the counter top from the island, and flipped it over. The next step in the zinc bending was harder – we needed to fold the zinc under and up [...]
“Dances with Caulk”
Posted in Before & After, Building, tagged caulk, remodel, Russian River, Schoolhouse, spackle on December 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’ve always been a plaster girl – spackle, joint compound, or my recent discovery, 20-minute mud – you name it, I can use it to good effect. Caulk? Not so much. It’s plastic-y, you have to use that squeeze gun thingy, and it gets all over the place. This weekend, however, I found myself enthralled [...]
A good week’s work
Posted in Building, tagged DIY, remodeling, Russian River, Schoolhouse on December 6, 2010 | 4 Comments »
In early November, when the Guys left, I made a list of all the things we had left to do and we have been steadily whacking our way through it. Last week we made a ton of progress, working from 7 AM to 8 or 9 at night, except on the nights we went to [...]
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