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Shelf dreaming
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litlnemo
Tuesday, Jun 25 2019
Geez, where have I been? I write blog posts all the time — but they never seem to make it past Facebook. I need to do a better job of just putting everything here as well. Anyway. So I want to put a big ol’ shelf unit on the high wall in my bedroom (the…
DIY an inexpensive way to hang posters and prints
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litlnemo
Saturday, Jan 23 2016
If you’ve tried to buy a frame for a large poster-sized print lately, you know how frustrating it is. Nice frames that size are ridiculously expensive. Other frames are less ridiculously expensive, but look cheap. Just tacking or taping the posters to the wall gets old once you’ve graduated from college dorm walls. I have…
Project: Chalkboard stairs
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litlnemo
Monday, Dec 15 2014
I have a stairway that goes up to the attic level of my house (that’s where my bedroom is, though originally the attic was unfinished.) The stairway was last painted some decades ago with boring gray floor paint. The walls are dingy “landlord white.” I’ve meant to do something with the stairway for 18 years,…
Pinterest and the bedroom project
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litlnemo
Wednesday, Nov 19 2014
It probably goes without saying, but Pinterest was an immeasurable help in getting the bedroom project designed and completed. Back in the old days (by which I mean 2009), when I planned my new kitchen, I did it semi-old school by creating a digital inspiration board: and a digital materials board: Both of these were…
Before and after: the bedroom project
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litlnemo
Wednesday, Nov 19 2014
My bedroom was bad news. After 18 years of living in the house, the bedroom walls were still the same dingy white they’d been on the day we moved in. Only dingier. The nasty blue carpet had been partially removed, revealing plywood with random splotches of paint. The Venetian blinds were broken. And the worst thing?…
Before and after: the office project
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admin
Saturday, Mar 23 2013
A couple of years ago I decided to turn a vacant room in my 1911 bungalow house into a new office for me. A lot of things in my life came along to slow the project down, but now, after a year and a half of actually (slowly) working on it, the room is basically…
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