Category: Projects (Page 1 of 50)

I decided I was going to rearrange my backyard pots yesterday morning, but when I got out there, I got whatever the gardening equivalent of writer’s block is. While I was looking around out there, I noticed the spot on my back wall was still unpainted. That been unpainted for… checking Bradaptation…. TWO AND A HALF YEARS? Good grief!

My challenge was to find the matching color for the stucco on my house. How do people even do that? The internet said to bring in a sample of the paint. I scouted around for broken pieces of stucco, and wasn’t having any luck, until I saw this:

The front of that electrical box actually came off! I could take it in to have the color matched. Awesome! I took it to Home Depot. The line for the paint counter was long, so I looked at the color cards and found one that almost matched, but I wanted to have the guy use the color-match machine.

The color match was too light, so I asked the guy to mix the color from the card I found. When the paint was mixed, the guy put a dab of it on the fusebox cover. It was a perfect match!

It worked! The color is indistinguishable! The texture of the patch is a little different, so you can see it the spot, but the paint color is the same! Amazing!

For the record, the stucco color on my house is Behr “Historical Gray”.

My kitchen sink faucet has always had a low water flow. Lately, it’s gotten worse. I would have switched the faucet, but it was fused to the sink, and hard to get at because of the narrow space behind the sink. I decided it would be better to just replace the sink. The finish was cracked on it anyway, and I was constantly fighting grossness.

I hired someone to do it. I might have been able to do it myself, but I was afraid of tearing up the counter top. And I don’t have a lot of spare time these days. Or energy, for that matter.

He did the replacement yesterday. It’s AMAZING! I love the change!

Here’s the before and after:

It’s so, so beautiful.

I got a table for the patio area in my back yard. It has little plastic nubs on the bottom that act as feet.

I got it home before I realized it was missing one.

I really didn’t want to lug it all the way back to the store, so I went looking for a possible replacement. I found a hex bolt that seemed like it might work.

It did! It screwed into the hole, and is just the right thickness to act as the missing foot. Good job, Brad!

A couple months ago, while I was using the string trimmer on my lawn, I got too close to the trim on my house, and I tore a hole through the plastic.

In another location, the plastic trim is protected by metal. I decided I’d do the same for this spot. I got a metal plate, I bent it in a 90 degree angle, and I painted it white.

On Sunday, I glued the metal in place. Yesterday I was able to get an “after” picture.

I have a wonderful walk-in closet in my bedroom. I’m in there every morning, so it’s one of the places I’ve really worked on and decorated. Organizing the clothing stuff has been a big part of the work.

I came to realize that I didn’t have a very good place for my belt, I had to do something it about it. I did this:

It doesn’t look great, but it sure does the job.