Bungalow '23: An Arts & Crafts home improvement journal

Entry Light Restored

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Does completing two projects qualify as a streak? I've just finished my second session of stripping and restoring the old hardware from around the house, and I'm on a roll. First I cleaned some window hardware a few weeks ago. Now in the last few days I decided to ...

Wireless Through The Walls

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

My neighborhood is on the leading end of the rollout of municipal wifi service in Minneapolis. I kicked my DSL to the curb a little over a week ago have been pleased (though not thrilled) with the performance of the wifi connection. I'm sure things will only get ...

Wires Through The Walls

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

With the help of a new tool, I made some progress this last weekend on my nursery renovation project. The tool? A fish tape that allowed me to run new romex from the fuse panel in the basement up to the utility run on the upper level. ...

Bathroom GFCI

Monday, February 19th, 2007

I've always appreciated the fact that the previous owners of our house added a master bathroom to the top level of the house. It is a great convenience and would otherwise have been a project for us to do ourselves. Of course there are a couple things about it that ...

Switcheroo

Saturday, November 11th, 2006

My new push-button light switches and forged cover plates arrived in the mail earlier this week. This was a little bit of house bling that I've wanted to add for some time and finally justified when my new compact fluorescent lightbulbs required me to eliminate a couple of dimmer ...