Adventures in Remuddling

Week three I fell behind as work became more and more hectic. Tig also started to do the back parking spots, and we felt it was more important to get started on some landscaping while the weather was nice.

I was supposed to have cleaned out our entryway and put in a landing strip. Instead, I tried to design it and until I had more time. While doing some research, I came across this picture from Real Simple Magazine’s website. I liked the idea of having peg rails to hold an assortment of items, from bags, to umbrellas.

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Week Four was devoted to the living room. I wanted to focus on the two areas that were cluttered. I spent an afternoon listening to parts of every record and weeded them down to one box. That freed up some space behind the chair. Then I unearthed a tiny bookcase that I had found in the basement. It was used to hold an assortment of pots. After cleaning it up and coating it with water-based polyurethane (the paint was chipping and I didn’t want the possibility of lead chips all over the place), it looked somewhat usable. The bookcase now holds our books which previously stacked in little piles against the wall.

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A few weeks ago, I sketched out a plan for the entryway and painted two sets of hooks to get ready. Since then, we’ve worked on half of the plan.

Here is our blank wall in the front study room.

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We’ve been pretty behind on our Apartment Therapy stuff, which is exactly what the authors warned against. In our defense, I will say that this is not just one-bedroom-apartment therapy, we have a whole house and a basement and attic, as well as a miniature front and backyard (which desperately needs some landscaping help).

At any rate, we did not do a full scale cleanup of our study. Instead, I had to narrow the focus to building shelves, which we sorely need. Our butler’s pantry has these decent looking brackets, which I copied for our bookshelves.

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This time the linen closet and bathroom were attacked. Nothing exciting to report here.

The shelves were cut a week ago. Now we finish it.

First a little routing for some bracket hardware.

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