Home Improvement

I am quite impressed by the home improvement projects Tyler and I have taken on in our only 4 months of living in this house. I will confess however, that because of these home improvement projects, our home is a mess and I have not been able to take pictures because it is embarrassingly messy in pretty much every room. But these are a few of the projects we have taken on.

The TV Shelf
Father's Day weekend we saw some amazing deals on TVs and we ended up getting this huge honker + Blu Ray/DVD player + surround sound system all for less than the price of the TV. We had a hard time passing up such a great deal. However, we don't have room for an entertainment center in our living room, so Tyler came up with this lovely shelf. He did all of the work, I can't take any credit for it. I just helped hold the shelf while he mounted it to the wall. Tyler built a little tray that falls under the shelf that holds all of the cords so they aren't sticking out all over the place.

The Ceiling Fan

We bought this over the weekend because it was on a fabulous sale and we have discussed buying a ceiling fan for quite a while. I opened the box and removed the packaging, and Tyler assembled it/did the electrical work. It is in our bedroom upstairs which is very nice because we do not have AC and it gets pretty hot at night. Oh, and it worked on the first try! Way to go Tyler.


Backyard Draining System
So our backyard has a bit of a downgrade that causes water to collect near the base of the house. That isn't good, especially in Oregon where it rains pretty much everyday for 10 months of the year. We just started this project over the weekend. Eventually we'll pour more concrete where the grass has been removed and we'll dig draining tile under the lawn where the water will dump out onto the street. Honestly, I don't really know the details of this project. This is Tyler's big thing and I'm just going along with it.

Oh, and this picture proves that the sun does occasionally come out in Oregon. There's shadows and everything.

Bathroom Conversion to a Pantry
We are fed up with the lack of a pantry in our kitchen. So we are converting the downstairs bathroom into a pantry to help with the lack of storage in our kitchen. So far we have removed the sink (shown outside being cleaned) and the mirror/towel rack. All we have left is the toilet to remove, which hopefully shouldn't be too hard. We've got shelves ready to put in the bathroom, and voila! Instant pantry.

Note: Chloe is quite the helper with the renovations. Maybe too much of a helper.