Category: Projects (Page 2 of 49)

I have big plans for the next couple of weeks. They are supposed to be my not-school-or-church-projects days. I made a list. It is a little intimidating, but it’s also kind of exciting. I have been waiting to do some of these things for months.

Yesterday I thought I would paint, which will be a huge job. Instead, I used the power of positive procrastination to do a few smaller things on the list.

I unpacked my suitcase finally. Bruno helped me:

I moved the hand towel rack in the hallway bathroom. Bruno helped me:

I put door handles in the sliding door to the master bathroom. Bruno didn’t help me. He was scared of the jigsaw.

Yesterday I went to the farmers market in Torrance.

There is a plant lady there who had many beautiful plants. I had to take a picture of the cactus she was selling. I love cactus flowers, but haven’t ever really gotten into growing them.

I did get a bunch of fruit. Yum! The nectarines I got are so flavorful!

I ran a few other errands, including getting some pull-chains for my fan so I could install my imported, hand-made-in-Anglesly-Wales, pull chain knobs. The BEFORE and AFTER:

I actually hung the toilet paper holder and the towel rack! I can hardly believe it! It was pretty late when I started and when I ended, but still… it’s done!

Happy Mother’s Day to all those mothers out there!

I’ve had bathroom hardware (towel racks and toilet paper holder) for my hallway bathroom for a long time. I’ve just been living without the use of them. But my towel isn’t drying on the door hook anymore, so I wanted to get the regular towel bar up.

I started with the hand towel ring. The outlet is in kind of a weird place, so the hand towel hangs low. But it’s still reachable, and I guess it’ll be easy for little kids to get to, so that’s nice.

I went to do the next things, and discovered that I was out of drywall screw anchors. I went out to get some more, but by the time I got back home, I was tired, so I took a nap, and then I remembered that I wanted to watch the latest Guardians of the Galaxy movie, so that was that.

Maybe I’ll get the towel bar hung next weekend.

In my hallway bathroom, the knobs on the cabinets were all different – three different cabinets, three different knobs. And none of the knobs were oil-rubbed bronze, which is what the shower hardware is. Yikes! I can’t have brushed nickel with oil-rubbed bronze. In my bathrooms, metals must match.

Yesterday, I replaced the knobs. Here are the before and after shots:

The screw for the knob was too long for the wall cabinet. I went to Lowe’s and got a replacement, but I didn’t get it on until late at night, so I didn’t take a final “after” picture of that…