My new coat closet is finally complete. All the final trim painting and touch-up work is done, and the coat hooks and tool storage are installed. I installed a pegboard along the back wall for hanging tools. All our chargers for the tools are below […]

It snowed this morning, which means that the yard tidying that I had planned will have to wait. So instead, I will finish up a few odds and ends involving our new coat closet. I plan to install some thin trim around the junction box […]

I spent the last day of my vacation busily finishing up the odds and ends of The Great Coat Closet Remodel Project. It took me most of the day Friday and part of Saturday morning to get the trim installed. The two inside walls were […]

Yesterday morning, we had severe storms move through our area. I was awakened by tornado sirens going off at 7:00 am. Shortly thereafter, the power was knocked out. We were without power for over 14 hours, but luckily sustained no other damage. Since we had […]

This morning, the fine fellows from Lee Company came to install a 240V 50A outlet on the front of our house for our new electric car charger, and a 110V 20A outlet on the back of the house because … well, there’s not an outlet […]

The first coat of spackle is on. I used almost an entire gallon of joint compound, just for the this first coat! Since the first coat generally needs to be thicker, I applied the spackle using the “cake frosting” technique, which is a technique that […]