August 31st, 2012
are you list makers? we aren’t so much, which may be why ours is so long, even if it is only in our heads.
to give you a rundown of where we are on the camp1899 to do d-i-y list we thought it would be fun to show you just how much we have left (in case you were worried by our lack of updates that we were near the end) ha! ready?
living room & kitchen:
paint the front & side door & install final hardware
finish trim (baseboards)
caulk & paint trim
build a fireplace
finish installing beadboard on island
paint beadboard
build drawers into island
paint island drawers & install hardware
purchase & install cooktop
build, install, and paint cabinet doors & drawers
have trim wood milled for center of ceiling
seal beams & ceiling
purchase & install 2 hanging lights
pour final layer of floor and then epoxy
install kitchen sink, including pouring a concrete counter surrounding
install beadboard as backsplash of sink area
half bath:
open wall up to inspect for suspected leak (fun)
repair wall after opening
caulk & paint trim
install surround sound speakers
seal ceiling
install door jam
paint door
hang wallpaper
tile floor
bedroom:
paint double doors & install door hardware, including door jam
finish floor same as living room/kitchen
install surround sound speakers
build a hidden door for crawl space
buy & install closet door
paint closet door, install hardware
paint trim
finish painting closet walls
build, install & paint shelves within closet
master bathroom:
paint door & install hardware & build door jam
paint trim
finish trim wood work for ceiling
paint/seal ceiling
install shutters on two windows
futilely attempt vacumming of teeny tiny hairs from frequent bang trims
(just making sure you made it this far)
p.s. half way through this he asked what is the fun of making this list? exactly why we don’t make lists! and is the reason it’s not double the length because the outdoor list is just about as long or longer than the above list, none of which is even on the immediate or near future of being done, so another day (and he would have had a hissy fit if i had insisted we go one more to-do further).
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August 29th, 2012
→ look what we’ve been up to! while it’s true progress has slooowwwed down a bit around here (the husband has been doing awesome projects for others so we’re a little behind on our to-do list), we did sneak in this big diy for tinkernation!! have you been following all of the diy’s over there? if not they have some great contributors, contests, tips, and tons more so make sure to say hello and pop over to see all of the details of this project, we tell all about it!!
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July 18th, 2012
have you been wondering what we’ve been up to for diy around here? well…. we’ve actually have working on a really good project, but, it’s a secret. remember we’re collaborating with tinkernation? if you haven’t checked out the website yet, pop over to see, and they have a few big sweepstakes coming up soooooon, so keep checking back for your chance to win. anyhoo, we’ve been busier than we’ve looked, we’ll be sharing our project in the next few weeks or so on tinkernation first and we can’t wait for you to see!
over the weekend he finished off our trim around the living room windows, most had been finished earlier, see here if you missed it, but this big picture window needed more time and got waylaid. and we now have real curtains hanging, instead of dropcloths over expandable rods.. fancy. we’ve got all of our trim up now but none of it is finished, lots of screw holes to putty and sand, priming and painting, all on our still quite long to-do list… we’ll be diy’ing for a long time around here.
on a little side note.. our curtains are lined silk dupioni and dry clean only. oye. i called around to several dry cleaners to get pricing and oh my, it was going to be pricey. to the tune of around $150. now if you’ve got thousand dollar curtains it would be the only way to go. ours aren’t super cheap but they aren’t worth a $150 dry cleaning bill either. i was daring and threw them (one at a time) in the washer. i used the wool setting, cold water, a short cycle, and they came out just fine. wrinkled as all get out but fine. i ironed them, with my ultra deluxe travel iron, haha, i don’t think i’ve ironed in about a decade and neither has he so full size iron and ironing board are not things we own. anyway, they ironed just fine, the silk looks just as it did prior to washing. i used a high heat steam setting and ironed directly on the silk. if you’re washing machine doesn’t have good settings like wool, silk, etc. then you might not want to try it but if it does, it worked great for us!
June 21st, 2012
this week he’s been busy building all of the soffits for the house, although we won’t be spending lots of time on the exterior of the house (and yard) this year, a few projects are musts while the weather is good. painting the soffits (which he built using 4×8 sheets found here), the front porch roof has a bit more finish work, the gingerbread on the front is getting painted, and if all goes well today (you just never know..), he’s cutting and attaching the gingerbread to the back peak (above pics).
in other news.. our shiny new fridge was having an issue or two as well and sears is bringing us a replacement today, we just might have our first ice cubes by the weekend.. we feel like we’re in a seinfeld episode, no soup ice for you! and the vintage fridge went on it’s merry way yesterday to someone wanting just a freezer, so long live the golden egg.
and, it’s been nice and hot here which i love, but…. our ac/heating unit that we had installed has not been cooperating and we have not had the best of luck on finding reliable service for it. three hot nights of no sleep and it became numero uno on the list of must-be-done-yesterday. it’s not uber wallet friendly getting the problems fixed but we finally found a company that is fully versed in split systems (we have a fujitsu) and they’re coming back today to bring us cool cool air ( i hope), so fingers crossed for us people!! thank goodness it’s not 118 degrees here like lake havasu was yesterday, how do they do it?!
June 15th, 2012
we’ve got three new exciting things at our house…..part of our surround sound is installed and making movies much better. the last two pics are speakers that are hidden behind the tv, and…we have more going in the bedroom and both bathrooms. (we kinda like everything loud.. you?)
the vintage fridge is gone and our shiny new french door one is blessfully drip free. (and will probably never be this clean again) and hallelujah for this ceiling fan. here’s the thing, since, for the first time ever, i wasn’t going to be in the south in the summer, it was the perfect chance to finally have a fancy light fixture in the bedroom. but we missed that air flowing down on us at night so much we did not adapt well. this ceiling fan, best-thing-ever.
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June 8th, 2012
we’re baaaaaaccccckkkkkkkk!
camp1899 diy is officially on the move. he’s painting our living room/kitchen/dining room/everything room (; we’re painting the bulk of the house in charleston white to make the small space seem bigger, and allow accent colors to stand out more. we’ve chosen historic charleston colors for every color in the house, we can’t wait to get more painted. i hope you’re glad to see us back in action because we’re really happy to start checking things off of that to-do list of ours!
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May 3rd, 2012
we had a lot of fun this past weekend, but husband got a lot of projects done too. all day saturday and sunday morning we were running around cleaning and working like madmen. i mowed any and all grass i could find in our yard and am here to say that the eco friendly, human powered mower is the way to go. have you tried one?
the bedroom doors are on (finally, darkness for sleeping!), and the trim around both the bedroom and bathroom door, and.. the enormousjob of sanding and priming the front room is done. we are glad it’s behind us.enough dust to last us a lifetime on that one.
my mom gave us this antique porcelain american gas sign, complete with tons of bullet holes, how southern is that? we love it. it’s the first piece of art hung in our tiny home. thanks mom! that kind of sums it up around here (for some reason he didn’t think me cleaning the yard or mowing made for exciting photos) and he’s working on a side project this week away from home, but no worries.. more house fun soon.
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April 26th, 2012
→ guess what this means? it’s tiimmmmeeeee! we’re finally sanding the front-end of the house, which means next we paint, and then officially unpack the rest of our stuff. he also got more trim finished around the door frames and baseboards in the bedroom, but… i didn’t get pictures fast enough before everything got a sheet of a plastic over it, so later, trim pictures. you would.not.believe. the amount of dust sanding creates, it looks like white sands national monument when he’s done for the day. and best of all.. i’m heading to the airport this morning to pick up one of my best friends for a weekend of fun and thrifting!
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March 15th, 2012
finishing the closet (we’re almost ready to unpack clothes)// dusting, vacuuming, priming // and instead of double doors for the closet, which we realized would make the bedside dresser space minuscule, we downsized to one // wood ceilings in the master bath // plus more mudding, sanding & priming // lots of progress (;
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March 2nd, 2012
→ showerheads are one of those things that you don’t think a lot about unless you have one that you don’t like, then you can’t quit thinking about it (at least for the x amount of minutes you’re in the shower). in our last home i had a regular, unfancy, plain jane shower head, and sean had a rain shower head. for our new we-never-want-to-leave-shower, we wanted one that had/or was a handheld for easy shower cleaning. we went to lowes (you can seriously spend an unforeseen amount of money on something as simple as a showerhead in bath specialty stores) and the first thing we found out is that almost all of them are plastic. i don’t know about y’all but for $50-100 and up we were wanting something a little nicer, and more durable, than plastic.
soooo.. this narrowed down are choices considerably, as well as price, because no way were we spending hundreds of dollars. we got lucky though, this has a rain like shower (which i thought i wouldn’t like and instead love) and a removable handset, which i think is what makes the rain part so good because there’s really good pressure instead of feeling like you’re under something going drip, drip, drip.. plus tons of settings and is real metal! we chose chrome because it shows the least amount of water spots and we’re just saying.. if you’re in the market for a set, this is a good one. it isn’t sold at lowes anymore but i found it online here. (one last thing, it’s a set, with an on/off handle.. most were showerheads only, if all you need is the showerhead, you can find it here)
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