And paint we DID!
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Last week we painted our bedroom
October 3rd, 2011
Last week we painted our bedroom. I thought it would be a perfect occasion to try out one of our wedding presents that I was totally stoked to use since we got it. My new GoPro camera! It’s mainly for when we go on our real honeymoon. So we can mount it to our helmets while riding scooters and motorcycles around Europe.
I used the multishot function on the camera to take a photo every 10 seconds for the time we were painting and then assembled them in Adobe Premiere to add the beginning and ending shots and the sound track.
We use Behr Premium Paint plus Primer for all of our painting and it covers everything! We’ve been painting a lot since we moved in then had emergency renovations to the entire house then had to repaint again. None of the room needed two coats but the wall farthest away from the camera got two because I painted the graffiti a little too thick and you could see it still when the paint dried.
There will be more GoPro videos coming soon!
Le Playstation C’est Mort.
March 29th, 2011
Today I took my Playstation 3 to a store uptown to get it checked out. A few weeks ago it froze while I was playing a game and never came back. I reformatted the drive and even went and got a new drive and tried installing it. Nothing worked. After explaining my situation and all the things I’ve done to it the guys at the store told me the one thing I didn’t want to hear. My PS3 is a brick. 
So after some consolation from K in the form of a great big burger from South St. Burger (which was awesome) when we got home I decided to help myself feel better by working on my motorcycle doing some home improvement.
Last weekend K went to the states and visited Ikea. First of all. Ikea in the states is WAY cheaper. She saved some serious coin and got somethings that we wouldn’t have bought otherwise.
So tonight we hung some curtain rods in the bedroom and hung the curtains on them (after K hemmed and ironed them). I also put up a mirror between the two and hung some His and Hers signs on our dressers!
I like it all. Not only that but the temporary paper blinds got moved from the bedroom to the living room which I love cause now all of our windows are covered. That makes me feel safer.
Home improvement is something that I really like. Whether it’s just decorating or building a work bench or putting up wainscoting. There’s a real feeling of self accomplishment, satisfaction and even self improvement when you do something to make where you live more useable and pretty. Not to mention more valuable.
New main floor bathroom!
March 2nd, 2011
There’s no doubt about it that K and I are Do It Yourself kind of people. We’d never pay someone to do most things in or around the house. We’ve only briefly chatted about getting people to paint and that’s because we’ve got 11ft ceilings on the main floor and in the stairwell it’s about 18ft worth of ceiling height. Even then we still shrugged it off as a silly idea and a waste of money when we can just do it ourselves.
This weekend and a couple nights this week we finished up the main floor bathroom. I have to say K did most of the painting as I was very busy at work this week and was in no mood to participate in my most loathed activity after a grueling day at work.
It’s before and after time!
That’s all we have for before pictures cause we weren’t super impressed with the “decorating” of the place when we bought it. Super bland. But we’re slowly changing it all.
Here’s some more after shots:
The mirror is an Ung Drill frame from Ikea that K spray painted white using our favorite spray paint Rustoleum Universal All Surface paint in Gloss White. This paint is amazing! It goes on well and sprays from all angles. With a custom cut mirror that we got from Cascade Crystal down the road. The light is Ikea as well. I would say that even out of the box this frame should be spray painted. It’s a bland matte charcoal color that looks very plasticy.
The wainscoting and chair rail are from Central Fairbank Lumber. By far the best trim and molding store we’ve ever been in. They have a room with free samples of all of their stuff that you can assemble on site then bring home and check out how it looks.
Cutting and installing wainscoting and a chair rail was a lot of fun! Measuring twice, marking, measuring again, then cutting using the miter saw was awesome and went off with only one mis-cut which was actually just an experiment gone wrong anyway. The air compressor and a brad nailer were absolutely invaluable on this job.
MORE Ikea! The TP hanger and towel bar are Ikea as well. The Monogram towels were a house warming gift from K’s aunts and uncles. We’ve been waiting to break them out for a while now.
All over I’m proud of the bathroom. I’m even more proud of K for pulling off so much of it without my help for whatever reason, work or air filters.
Speaking of air filters. I’ll be working on them more this weekend. Hopefully I’ll get them finished and installed. I’m almost ready to make an order for some new braided brake lines too… If the site I want to order from would just come back up from “maintenance”.
Busy productive weekend
February 27th, 2011
This weekend was crazy! Got so much done! Home Depot, Home hardware, Canadian Tire, wainscoting, chair rails, air filters.
Saturday we went to Canadian Tire and I got all the stuff I thought I needed to rebuild my air filter. Then to Home Depot to pick up the stuff to finish off the downstairs bathroom chair rail and wainscoting.
When we got home I set to ripping apart my old filters and K started measuring and cutting the chair rail for the bathroom. I got the old filters off their frames really easily then set at the old epoxy with my Dremel with a pointed grinding bit. It went pretty quickly once I got a rhythm and I had both filters all cleaned up by dinner time. It was super dusty work.
Then we headed out to dinner at a new local restaurant called June Harlow Foods. We both had burgers and they were great! They have Burger Wednesday where you get a burger and a beer for $10. We will be going back.
Today we went to Home Hardware down the road to pick up some bbq paint so I could throw a layer on my filters so they look a little nicer than the brass color they are stock and so that the newly exposed areas of metal will have some protection and won’t rust. While we were out we stopped by some friends place to see their son and give some advice on a wall repair they need to do after having to rip up a section on their stairs trying to get a couch in to their townhouse.
When we got home I cleaned, masked, and taped my filters and took them outside to paint. While waiting for them to dry we installed the chair rails that K cut yesterday in the bathroom and I ripped apart one of the new filters I bought to replace the old batting from the old ones. I only cut myself twice.
That’s pretty crazy actually. I never cut myself. I guess I wasn’t being careful enough with the sharp filter screens. I usually wear Mechanix gloves to do anything.
I’m going to write up before and afters of all the projects from this weekend. Hopefully I have some before and after photos of the bathroom.
Back in the Saddle?
February 25th, 2011
A coworker of mine blogs.
He blogs a lot.
Way more than I ever have (even when I was concentrating on trying to make a successful beer blog).
So I figure it’s probably time for me to at least TRY to start it up again. I can’t believe it’s almost a year since my last post.
I think i have some things to say. I have a lot going on. We’ve bought our house. We’re getting close to the wedding and we’ve both gotten new jobs.
My new job is awesome. Way better than my last one. It’s nice to be appreciated even if there are some corporate restrictions placed on the day to day. It feels much better being here.
Spring is coming which means I’ll be putting some work in to my bike pretty soon! I’m excited about that because (I think) I’ve finally discovered what my problems really were that were causing my rough idling and cutting out AND boggy-ness on the highway. Air filters. I’ll rebuild them soon and post a “how I did it”. Hopefully it’ll cure my issues and help people in the future searching for a cure for their problems too. Or I’ll switch to pod filters. I’m not sure yet.
I got halfway through a new design a few moths back… Maybe I’ll pick that back up too.