I’m tried, but it’s all done (mostly).
I haven’t had a real update in quite a while. Here are some before and after pictures.
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New House
New Kitchen 46 (this old barn)
It’s kind of thing these days to use reclaimed barn wood in remodeling. It’s used a lot in flooring, I decided to use it as a feature wall. Sorry, I don’t have some great story about how Maddog and I tore down some old barn with our bare hands and then milled the wood. I ordered it. I am sure it came from a barn like the one below.
New Kitchen 45
I wonder how many posts before the kitchen is 100% done.
I am not going out of my way to take great pictures. I’ll save that for when it’s done. I mentioned in a previous post, I picked up a few pieces of wood. One of them has a live edge and was odd shaped and the guy was going to throw it out, and took it because I liked it. It didn’t take long for me to realize it was my new bar.
New Kitchen 44
New Kitchen Post 41
More Countertops
New Kitchen Part 40
Countertops
New Kitchen Part 39
The more progress I make, the more I have to do.
New Kitchen Part 38
I ordered the counter tops. They are going to be white concrete.
They were delivered via UPS freight, which incidentally, would only drop it off at the end of my drive way. This my driveway. It’s a “little bit” of a hill .
Had to drag 1000 lbs of concrete up the hill with a pallet jack.
Then I had to move it all inside. I should probably mention that it was only 8 degrees outside.
New Kitchen Part 37
I hope that once the countertops are in, and I can cook and do dishes and not have to put so many hours in. At this point, I am trying not to think about how much work is left to do, I’m just working. As a matter of fact, I haven’t thought much about being finished with this project. This kitchen needed done, and I’m doing it, that is about as far as my thought process has gone. I was washing a bowl in the new sink the other day, and it just kind of hit me, I am going to have a pretty kick ass kitchen when this all done.
Garage
Back in October, on an unseasonably warm day, I did some garage door maintenance. I greased all the moving parts with lithium grease, changed the battery in the keypad, and put new lights in the door opener. I figured I would get it in good shape for winter. The problem is, it hasn’t worked correctly since.
It’s been driving me insane. Sometimes I will go out there and sit on the stool and just stare at it. You can open it with with remote, you just can’t close it. So I’d have to open it from the house (my garage is detached), then get in the car, pull out, then get out of the car, go in the garage and push the hard wired button. I reprogrammed everything, it would seem to work in the garage, and then not work work in the car.
I read up on the internet and didn’t find much help. I checked this and that. All I kept thinking was “all I did was change the battery”. But that wasn’t all I did, I changed the lights, as well. There was a tiny spark of memory in my brain about LED bulbs and frequencies, and I went out and unscrewed the bulbs. It worked.
I had changed the bulbs from CFL to LED. There is circuitry in the LED bulbs that puts out a frequency that interferes with your garage door opener(cheaper bulbs) . When you open it, the lights come on, so that’s why you can’t close it.
Apparently everyone on the planet knows this but me.