Bedroom Update: In Pictures

Friday, June 19th, 2009

My last couple posts have lacked pictures, but I finally took the camera around and captured a few images of the progress up in the bedroom. This first photo shows the partially-stripped door into the bedroom and the newly relocated doorframe for the closet.  The radiator at the bottom of the ...

The Closet That Never Was

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

With the framing work in the south upstairs bedroom complete, I have turned my attention to clearing debris and preparing for electical work.   Recently I cleared the fiberglass batts and blown cellulose from an area just off the living space that looks like it was designed to be a closet. ...

Nursery Closet Framing Finished

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Over the weekend I finished framing the closet for the nursery. The outside wall needed to be built out with 2X2s to provide a nailing surface for drywall over the inside of the chimney. This will also give me a bit of space for some insulation ...

Framing the Closet

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

As if the lack of postings here wasn't sufficient to tell the story, let me spell it out: finding time for house projects and blogging has been mighty tough of late. Last weekend I watched the kids so Ms. Bungalow could put in extra hours at the office. The weekend ...

Opening Doors

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Nothing big is happening here, but I'm making progress on a few odds and ends mostly involving opening doors. During one of his recent temper tantrums, my four-year-old slammed open his bedroom door and put the knob through the wall. If he was a little older I could have taught ...