What home improvement work did you do today?

If you are like me then it took you all day because everything that could go wrong, did. So yeah, I'd count it.

 

Baseboard trim in crown to follow after painting adjacent hallway

 

I attached a 2x6 and then wrapped it in 3 pieces of barn wood and cut them at 45 degrees, glued, and nailed to make it look like a real beam. They came out pretty light weight and sturdy.

 

Got the crown up on the kitchen cabinets, and picture rail up in the dining room. Measured for the glass in the upper cabinets.

Tomorrow will be wrapping up the laundry room: toe kicks (including cutting in a heat register in one), relocating a can light, and putting in the crown on the cabinets.

Hopefully I’ll also get started on the open shelves in the kitchen. Got to cut them all to size, groove them for blind shelf pins, edge band, and then start coating them... thinking maybe just a spray on polyurethane for a little durability.

 

Thats some nice work!

 

Thanks. Hardest part is staying on it to finish. You get 80% done and “move in” and then it gets really hard to buckle down and finish.

 

Been plugging away at the basement.. its coming along nicely.

I did have the HVAC done for me - if you're looking for someone along the Wasatch Front who does a great job and is fairly priced, check out Scotty's Heating Air and Quality Repair in Tooele. =]

 

More baseboards.

 

Since I don't know what that means, yeah it counts.

 

What brand of paint was it? Did you have to do a lot of prep? We've got a kitchen full of dated cabinets I'd like to paint.

 

Nice job! That looks similar to the vanities we have going in soon. 72" in the hall bathroom and 80" in the master bath which are replacing the original vanities from 1976 that are 96".

 

Yeah, they are not cheap. Ours will actually have a different countertop than what was in the picture. They had a few options so we went with the plain white top and the single hole mount for the faucets. I'm waiting to see if we lucked out with the vanities. We have an extra one at the moment...First one arrived (72") and I cut the box open to check it and everything was good. The 80" arrived about a week later and I also opened that one. When they shipped they had the knobs installed backwards (inside the cabinet) for protection with the screw on the outside. One of the screws from a knob came loose and fell to the bottom and obviously got squished between the box and the lower trim on the vanity leaving a small scrape (very minimal). We called Amazon and they offered $100 off to keep it. My wife wanted a new one delivered since we were spending a lot on the vanity and didn't want to have to find paint to match and touch it up. Three weeks later a delivery truck arrived with the replacement. We asked about them taking the old vanity and they said they won't take it without a pickup order and they didn't have one. It was our understanding that the new vanity was going to be delivered and they would be picking up the old one. It's been a couple more weeks now and we still have it. Wonder if they will ever call to schedule a pick up or if it was just missed somehow?

 

Thanks! I'm going to look into it.

 

Worked on the laundry room cabinets today.

• Toe kicks installed, including the cut-out for the duct register under the corner cabinet.
• Relocate the can light away from the wall by 3.5” including patch, texture, and paint
• Two piece built-up crown on top of the cabinets

Need to do a little touch up paint on the crown and then it’s on to the exposed shelves for the kitchen. Then the last piece is some sort of finished cover over the washer and dryer that integrates into the window sill. Ooooh so close.

 

Looks good! Have you considered butcher block for over the washer and dryer? They make deep pieces big enough.... we did butcher block as countertops in our laundry room. I have restained them a different color since this photo.

 

Repaired some drywall in this small closet conversion. Need to texture it. Taught my nephew about eye protection while at it.

 

That was one thing I had considered. We originally had a continuous counter over the washer and dryer when we built the house. Then the washer needed replaced, and everything available was bigger/taller than the originals we had. We’ve had the old cut part of the countertop just resting on top of the new ones ever since (couple of years) - but with this remodel it is time to do it right.

 

I just repainted all the cabinets in my kitchen and used Insl-X cabinet paint. It's a sub brand of benjamin moore. I brushed and rolled the frames and sprayed the doors. Came it really good, but time will be the big test. Few pics of it all done a couple pages back on this thread.

INSL-X Specialty Coatings (benjaminmoore.com)

 

3 exterior doors and 2 large windows replaced. Siding in spring and them most of the major stuff will finally be completed.