Projects around the house!

The last 10 days have been busy, as Crystalie was out west visiting Ricki, Grant and Rebekah in Ocean Shores, so to make the time pass being alone I had a few projects that I worked on to surprise Crystalie when she got back.

Above is the start of the sanding process on a new old table we are now using in our kitchen, that was brought to us by Crystalie's dad last summer. You can see the original finish was in tough shape and I decided to sand it down and refinish it.

This table is a little bigger than our old one and also opens up and makes for a really large table.

The sanded top, and below I show the legs sanded also.

Another project here is the walls in our jacuzzi tub area, had some water stains from ice jams a couple of years ago and so it need to be repainted with Kilz Paints. Much fresher looking and the coating of paint brighten the room up even more.

Next was replacing a piece of carpet in our backroom, as Smarkle had gnawed on some of it when she was a puppy, and so I bought a remnant at Menards of an indoor outdoor that would not show the dirt.

In our backroom by the door we have a storage cupboard for coats and stuff and we had an old wood box on the floor for hats and mittens and such, but it seemed we we never used those because they were in the box. So I bought 4 plastic baskets, and fastened them to the wall, at an angle and spaced them apart about 8 inches, and they made perfect bins, and also out of sight when the door is closed.

Back to my table, here it is refinished in a dark walnut stain and a satin varnish applied to it.

Another view of the leaf down and how well it took the dark color.

With one of the sides up, shows you how well the finish turned out.

While Crystalie was gone her Amarillis flower was in full bloom, this was a gift from our friend Marjorie. As you can see it is beautiful, and fortunately, it is still in full bloom and she got to see it and enjoy it!