Home Improvements

Now that we've (mostly) finished moving and unpacking, we're keeping busy with redecorating and doing other improvements.

The Office

One of our first big projects was painting the third bedroom which would eventually become the office.

We've put down drop covers for the floor, covered the windows and outlets and taped all around the baseboard.


Next comes a coat of white primer to hide the blue.


And finally here is the finished product after we've removed all of the masking paper and tape. It looks great!

More projects

Along with the big projects there have been lots of smaller ones too.

We never realized how useful the Home Depot would be until we bought a house - thankfully, it's very close by! We're probably there at least once every weekend - kind of like going to church!


Not long after we moved we spent an entire afternoon there stocking up with supplies and materials for a bunch of projects. It's kind of hard to see, but there's a lot of goodies in the back of our truck. We still haven't finished all of the projects we bought for that day.


The house purchase included a washer/dryer that we didn't need. Unfortunately, the washer also didn't work. However, we managed to get the washer apart, figure out what was wrong, and fix it, after which we were able to sell them both.


Mark puts up blinds in the garage


Here's Mark installing a new faucet for the kitchen sink.


It only took three days, but finally it's done. It works beautifully (and it looks great too)!

Next: Replacing the doors
Created: 11/23/03
Last updated: 11/30/03
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