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Angie4b1g

Angie4b1g

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Have you done any big DIY projects lately?

I have so many on my list, but then I do one and remember why the list is so long. :giggle

My daughter asked for a laminate floor in her room while she was at her dad's for 2 weeks. Seemed easy enough... buy flooring, work a couple hours a day for a few days, done.

Then of course, I picked a color that they had to ORDER, and it came in 3 days before she was home. So I had to do the whole thing on Saturday in a big rush. I was pulling her bedding out of the dryer as she got home. I felt like I was on While You Were Out. LOL

But, it turned out lovely and she's thrilled.

I'm sore.
 
Ha I am horrible at DIY projects - I always have the best intentions but... Sigh. It is kind of like the 100 craft projects (cross stitch, knitted hats, etc) that are sitting around. Lol.
 
Angie, that sounds exhausting!

Amy, I'm the same way. I have so many unfinished craft projects laying around.

I do like building things though, my background (way back in the day) is theatre, and my last job was as a properties manager. I loved building, refinishing, and just plain making things work for the stage. I would love to translate some of that into our home at some point. We're hoping to buy in the next year or two and will probably have DIY projects galore then.
 
The latest thing I did was make a wine rack out of a palette. I totally love how that turned out. I REALLY want to do hardwood floors in our family room soon too. We put carpet in when we moved in 11 years ago and picked almost white carpet. We didn't have kids yet, but even still I don't know what we were thinking. That carpet is nasty and can't even be professionally cleaned back to normal again.
 
I am a goober and am pouring my insanity into my kids.
I am a freecycle junkie (it is a web/email group that people give things away) first come first serve.
Saturday this showed up:
Large and very heavy dining room table - sits 6, has 2 leaves to sit 10-12
Please bring strong men and truck.

I was first. With two twin girls 13, and my 15 passenger van (with the front seat out)
It is cream, and in desperate need of sanding and some support. ONe leg is off, but all the hardware is there.

We got it out of their back patio, out to the front, and into the van. Then the laughter from all three of us! The doors would not shut? Rope? oh of course not. My one daughter pulls out of my Sunday School bag, red fluffy pipe cleaners, we braided them together..but not a good idea.
Dab nab it.
hmmm
I had a roll of bubble wrap. Perfect! Tied the door closed and used an extra bit to go around the leg leaning on the window!
We drove home slowly, with one girl in front, hold the side door, and the other in seat holding the other. The bubble wrap is very elastistic! tee hee
but we did it.
My hubby comes out and laughs. I said can you get it out?
That was even funnier, cause he could not figure out how we got it in?
But it is sitting in my carport upside down, and when school starts. I will be running my little sander, and refinishing it too a deep dark red for my dining room!









aggggg! I just saw my POLLYwog status become real!! oh my gosh! woot wootie woo
 
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No...but if the company that owns our house doesn't come do something about the ripped carpet soon I may be doing a flooring project of my own.
 
I'm not really a DIY-er, but dh is. He just re-did part of our sprinkler system in the front yard with nicer sprinklers. It's nice now that they don't clog and now they don't spray the house...:thumbsups
 
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DIY projects take me a small eternity to finish, so i don't do many of them. The most recent one i did was to transform a dumpster dive treasure into a cabinet for our kitchen. i am pleased with how it turned out, although it really didn't require much. i pulled out some shelves, sanded the whole thing down (well, actually DH did most of the sanding), and then primed and painted it, reassembled and put some knobs on. I try not to get too complicated...overwhelms my simple mind. :giggle
 
i have a cabinet that i have been wanting to repaint to match our bedroom walls for a long time, and then there is my kitchen that i started (all the upper cabinets are painted) but haven't finished (the lower ones, not so much - lol)... i have actually started and finished several small pinterest projects this summer - maybe that can count!
 
I just made three july 4th wreaths,
and am refinishing an antique bread box,
it's on 4 legs and stands about 3' tall...
although it's been raining too much to
get the painting done, sigh
 
I haven't done too much at home, but I seem to be building lots of stuff when every I go to my sister's house. New baby means lots of new furniture and gadgets and I seem to be the only one who knows how to read instructions.
 
I love DIY projects, but anything that requires the saw, I pass on to DH. We made bookshelves last summer. He did all the cutting & drilling. I sanded, stained & poly'd. They're perfect for us as we were able to custom design them - even so the wicker baskets from Target would fit perfectly!

This summer I've been working on the garden & landscaping around the house to help water drain away from & not into the basement. I asked DH to make a DIY bike rack for all the kids to park their bikes in the garage. We need all the help we can get with organization in that space, kid-wise that is.

I do have a DIY subway art that I started & almost finished. I need to go over some of the letters with white one more time.

After those are finished, I will probably look back at my Pinterest boards to see what to create next.
 
I want to refinish and completely;y redecorate my husbands computer room (going to turn it in to a kid friendly room with their computers, games, homework stations, bookshelves etc.....) and I want to do that this week while I am off, but I am home with all 4 kids, so we will see!!!
 
After moving into a house where the previous owners were very DIY-ers I'm pretty anti it now. We have all these huge things that need fixing that they did themselves.
 
I love the idea of DIY, but not so much the execution.

If I had someone to do it with me who was good at those type of things, that would be perfect, but I'm terrible at things that require figuring out and eye-hand coordination & get frustrated very easily when they don't look the way I want.

That's why I digitally scrap! I could never get paper layouts to be perfectly cut, perfectly straight, etc. like you can in Photoshop! :giggle
 
i have so many projects on my to-do list. I don't give myself any deadlines tho b/c then I would just get completely overwhelmed. I want to completely clean out and gut my old scrapbook room so my hubs can rebuild it as a residential photog studio. I want to purge, organize and restructure my new scrap room. I want to put artwork on the walls, put racks on the sides of some cabinets for ribbon storage and need to build a punch holding rack along another cabinet.

Then, I want to clean and organize my office and get rid of half the stuff in there so I can organize bins for tax stuff and organize photog work stuff and books/magazines on shelving. I have a billion magazines that I want to start going thru and cutting out articles that I want to keep. I think I'll put them in binders in page protectors.

I want to start organizing my digi stuff in acdsee (this is a big chore if I go back over the last couple of yrs), at least start with current purchases.

Whew....I'm tired already.
 
UGH! DIY is so not my thing. I know I need to do it because we're always too broke to pay anyone to do anything. My hubby tends to be more on the lazy side so things don't get done as fast as I'd like. I can't even tell you how many projects he's started on not finished. Not cooL!!!! Of course, I should have painted my son's bedroom a couple of years ago since I took all the wallpaper down. THEN I found TLP & I seem to scrap all the time. LOL!
 
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