Showing posts with label storage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label storage. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

To DIY or not to DIY ...

I'm making my guest-blogging debut at Building Moxie today with a post about the necessary evil of hiring out your home improvement and the potential perils of doing so. It's a personal story, and the names have been changed to protect everyone - the innocent and the guilty.

Click here to give it a read. Some of it may hit too close to home, but hey, that's the nature of home improvement.

While you're there, bookmark Building Moxie. JB and his team do a bang-up job over there, and I'm proud to have been asked to contribute.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Weekends are too short

Good intentions be damned, there's never enough time to get my projects done. Friday I put the last two windowsills in, and I planned to seal around the edges and fill in the larger gaps on the right and left of those two (I measured twice and cut once, but sometimes there's no accounting for bad math).

However, the weather turned springlike on the coast of Maine this weekend. The three of us (wife, daughter and me) have been sick for a couple weeks, so it was a perfect time to get out and do something. Trouble is, that meant I didn't do anything indoors - including windowsills.

To complicate matters, we live on the second floor and don't have a yard to speak of. All my power tools, lumber and other supplies are stowed in our storage room in the basement - which has no outlets. One thing I did this weekend was buy a DC converter to change my light socket into an outlet. That should help. We'll see.

So there my windowsills sit. The edges of the first four have been filled, but need to be sanded and painted. Those last two are in, but that's it. There's always next weekend, right?

My question for you is this: how to you manage your time to ensure that your projects get done?