Radiator Covers
FINALLY
Time sure passes slowly during a pandemic. With all the extra time, we finally started a project that we vowed to do many moons ago. We would hide the ugly, old (but very efficient and effective) radiators with radiator covers that we built ourselves. We finally tackled one of them back in April!
We started with the radiator cover by the dining table. I wrote about it in a post from 2015, but here is what it looks like up close. This one isn’t too bad but painting this to look great would have been pretty difficult, plus we want to be able to put plants on top of it:
Cornices!
Pandemic Edition
Hello friends! In this post, we continue on our journey to make the windows more pretty. A few months ago, we added trim to the windows in the living room. You can see that post below:
I decided I wanted to add a cornice to pull the room together a bit more and to hide some of the window treatment hardware. So what’s a cornice, you ask? It’s a type of valance - a window treatment that covers the top of the window - but has more of a box-like construction. We used this post that I found on Pinterest for inspiration: DIY Cornice!
Here’s a picture of what the window looked like before.
Fixing the lawn. Again.
Pandemic Edition
The front yard has proven to be an unexpected adversary. You may remember that we initially tackled it in this post from 2015, when we hired someone to remove the rocks in our yard and lay down sod:
Then, Thambi sort of destroyed the lawn and Mike planted grass, which was covered in this post:
Well, the grass never really looked that good again. It was just fine. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great either. Mike felt that the grass wasn’t properly tilled and that might be part of the reason that the grass wasn’t doing so hot. We decided to try the This Old House Way!
First, Mike destroyed what little grass remained so we could start with a blank canvas. It’s definitely bleak:
Back patio living
Pandemic Edition
Happy Fall, folks! When the weather finally warmed up this year, I used it as an opportunity to make our back patio a more comfortable place to lounge, particularly since we are pretty much home all the time. I also wanted to incorporate more plants since the brick and concrete make it feel a bit institutional. I didn’t take a before picture but this pic from 2018 is roughly close to what it used to look like. Look how small Thambi looks!
Prettifying the windows
Pandemic Edition
Hello friends! I hope you are all staying safe out there during this pandemic. One would think that we would have gotten a lot of house projects done but alas, we have not. We did finish up one project though and that is what I will share with all of you today!
Plain, ol’ windows
Our simple, little house is missing the accoutrements of fancy houses, like window trim and crown moulding. It is glaring obvious in these front windows in our living room, where we hang out most of the time and entertain people (on the rare occasion that have people over - we gotta work on that…). So we decided to jazz it up with some window trim!
See our sad, little windows.
