With a new weekend coming to an end it is time for another edition of "Name that House Project." This week we had some help and painted the living room and living room entrance a nice Gobi Dessert Brown (see # 710C-3). The tiny hallway that separates the guest bedroom and office is also going the same color but will have to wait a little longer. Also, I ventured into the world of electricity and changed two regular kitchen wall outlets for GFCI outlets that have a breaker. The outlet work was not too bad once I figured out what I was supposed to do, which oddly enough happened just as Nate and Steph's parents arrived at our door as they drive to NC. But I will get to the purpose of their visit in a minute.
One other positive note was my mowing of the lawn for the first time using my new lawn mower. Using a Consumer Reports we found this Cub Cadet mower that was fantastic. You can easily alternate between side discharge by putting a plug in the machine, bag the grass by replacing the plug with a nifty sack that attached rather easily, or mulching. I used the side discharge for the back yard and the sack for the front as to not send my cut grass all over the neighborhood. Another two very nifty aspects about the mower are the curved handlebars (allows you to push the mower with your hands perpendicular to the ground instead of parallel) and a choke switch to start the mower (which prevents the blade from spinning when you start the machine, which can make starting the machine a lot simpler). Anyhow, if you are looking for a mower this is your machine!
Finally, our kitchen has been in dire need of a pot rack due to a severe shortage in storage space that has resulted in our beautiful pots and pans (wonderful gift from the Thornburgs) living in a box. Just a bad scenario all around as it is hard to get to them and the box is sitting on our butcher block which further complicates the storage situation.
We had received a great Rogar pot rack as a wedding gift, but unfortunately it did not fit in our kitchen as it was a little too long. Now, I hope Betsy doesn't kill me for saying this but we did not want the rack to go to waste, as it it is gorgeous, and upon hearing that Nate and Steph could also use a rack in their kitchen, we shipped it their way via their parents who were driving through Nashville on their way to NC from the midwest.
Replacing the Rogar we got an Enclume rack at Williams-Sonoma using a gift card Natalie had gotten. We have been waiting to put up the rack until we had the kitchen painted and with some time on our hands and with the kitchen painted we started the task of bolting the sucker to the roof of our kitchen. The rack has to be anchored to the kitchen on studs as to prevent it from falling on your noggin. Ceiling studs are found in houses in two formats: 16" or 24" apart. Our rack requires the 16" format, whereas our ceiling come in the 24" format. In other words, our rack is VHS and our ceiling is Beta. This will result in us taking the rack back to the store tomorrow. We will lose the $25 for shipping but should otherwise get the rest of our money back. The bigger loss is the mental hit that Nat and I took from realizing that our pots and pans will have to sit in a stupid box on our butcher block for at least another week.
With that we conclude another weekend of successful and unsuccessful home projects. Tomorrow I head back to work where I hope I will start making strides towards a project as it has been somewhat slow the first week. I also hope that Vanderbilt can figure out why I cannot get a damn electronic ID so that they can create my email.
TTFN,
B Mexican
PS- Nate, tell your dad I will do anything if he helps me do recessed lighting in our kitchen.
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Hi, it's me again! "Again" as in I have had a haitus from responding to blogs because I forgot my password. Anyhow, it is painful for me to read your home improving blog...and I mean "painful" as in I share your pain all too well. Why is every little project riddled with unforeseen problems? Why does the "to do" list never get shorter, even when you see progress? Why do I think that it is fascinating to read a review on a lawn mower? Man, we are old.
Many thanks for the pot rack. We can't wait to get it up in our place.
P.S. I'll pass your recessed lighting request along to my dad.
I just want to know why it is so hard to find the studs on the wall/ceiling? Natalie can do it, I just stink at it.
When's Steph's blog coming out?
Count me in as fully in favor of a Steph blog.
I think with all the cool/gross stuff she will get to do in Vet school it could be tons of fun.
I think if she is maintaining her own blog, she might actually visit one of mine from time to time. ;-)
It does make it easier looking at blogs whenever you have either a log-in or you have a blog with links to other blogs.
That Gobi Desert swatch looks way off on my computer screen. It looks kind of purple on the computer, but in real life it is a very true khaki color.
It looked purple-ish on my screen too. You would expect something called "Gobi Desert Tan" to look tan. I likes how Bernardo spelled desert as dessert too. Spell check on blogger only picks up spelling errors and not grammar.
When out house was being built the contractor asked me what colors we wanted the walls painted. I said "white." The contractor asked me what kind of white I wanted and I replied that there couldn't be that many different whites. He just chuckled and told me to talk to my wife about it. After talking to my wife, and looking at a color wheel, I discovered that there are probably 100 different variations of the plain color "white." Our walls are now "Navajo White." I believe there is also eggshell white, paper white, burnt white, honkey white, cracker white...
Damn! I always screw up the dessert and the desert.
I have always remembered dessert vs. desert this way:
I always want more dessert, but I probably don't want to spend time more time in the desert....so dessert has MORE ssss'ssss.
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