It's been insanely warm here, so much so that Noel & I have been marking things off our To Do list.
Now that Noel and I are homeowners, we get to spend some quality time doing things to improve our little homestead. I've rented so long, it's funny that I sometimes forget we can change things on the house if we want!
So here are some projects we've taken on lately. I'd just like to give a shout out to our new internet provider, because I was able to upload all of the following photos in, seriously, 10 seconds. AMAZING.
On to projects! So we bought a green bench years ago, and it was in great shape.
For a while.
How could this kind of damage happen to a perfectly innocent bench, you ask?
Do you even need to ask?
When the cats decided to destroy this particular piece of furniture, they were...thorough.
Please note that Sammy has a foot stuck in the hole. After he had torn it away enough to smoosh himself into the lining, he used to lay inside it, like some kind of tattered hammock.
So here was our quick fix. I didn't feel like reupholstering the whole thing right now, so I took some twine and made some creative patches over the torn parts. I also touched up the finish on the legs. It's...well, unique. I'm not 100% in love with it, but at least the cats can't destroy it. Funny thing is, I used twine so that if they wanted to scratch on it, they'd at least scratch on the parts that felt like a scratching post. But I was wrong. They avoid it now like the plague. *shrug*
Noel has a workshop in the garage. When we bought the house, it had a HUGE wooden work table that took up a lot of space and frankly wasn't very useful - it was so deep that he wasn't able to use the majority of it. So: Brilliant Idea! It's our table, let's cut it in half and make an L shape!
Here's the original table:
We spent several hours sawing, drilling & hammering. Here is his new workspace (he also put up new fluorescent lights to make it brighter. It's a really nice (and roomy!) workspace now!
Note that there is yet another project on the sawhorses in the picture above.
It's a plain white divider wall that hides our water heater. It is ucky.
And guess what? We own it! So we can change it! We found this awesome textured wallpaper at the home improvement store. It has the glue already on the back, you just have to soak it to activate the glue and then put it in place:
Then you trim the excess off and let the paper dry completely:
After the paper dried for 24 hours, we painted it to match our front door. It took several coats (red usually does):
But how awesome does THIS look now!? (We added a 3rd piece we found in the garage):
Here's a closeup of the texture. Isn't it awesome?
Yet another project? We've done several outside ones. One is a shed we built in the corner of the yard, to house the mower and make Noel's workshop even roomier!
The other big outside project? A new garden! Yes, I finally took pictures of it. Does this not look like we have multiple dead bodies buried out there?
For those of you who think it might be too early to plant a garden, look! The baby radishes are already coming up!
Even our lantanas are blooming already!
So that's an update on all the exciting domestic things we've been working on. It's a good thing too - it's supposed to rain tomorrow.
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