Patio
An Infusion of Personality
Yikes, so apparently I posted only once in all of 2017. I honestly don’t know how that happened but 2017 just flew by! So today I will share some updates we did to the patio back in…July. It only took me 6 months to put them up on the interwebs for all of you to see.
Back in August of 2016, our new patio fence was installed. You can read about that here. It was more intimate, but otherwise barren, as shown here:
In a few years, once we do the big kitchen/basement reno, we plan on doing a fancier patio update but for the time being, we just wanted to make it a bit more inviting with little cost & effort.
More after the jumpMaster bedroom makeover
Begone terrible paint. And more!
Hello friends! I know it has been a terribly long time, over 6 months, since I last posted. I wish I had some sort of excuse, but alas, it was just laziness. I told Mike that we weren’t allowed to start any other house projects until we finished the master bedroom makeover because it was an eyesore. But finishing it meant painting and painting meant procrastination and thus, here we are.
Then an opportunity arose! A summer deluge postponed a planned weekend at the Bay, late in the week. With nothing to do and a torrential downpour outside, painting suddenly seemed like a relatively pleasant weekend activity.
Before
As you can see, our bedroom furniture followed no coherent style. It was mainly composed of Mike’s dark, brooding bachelor furniture and a piece or two from my old set. I should say that I helped pick out Mike’s bedspread years ago. But it was time for a change.
The Wardrobe
Part 1 of (hopefully) 2
As I mentioned previously, when we bought the house there were no closets. Our renovation this year gave us two closets: one in the hallway and one in the bathroom but our bedroom was still sorely lacking. Since we moved in, we have been using a rolling hanging rod but Mike likes to hang everything including t-shirts. The small hanging rod we shared didn’t have enough room for his t-shirts and that was slowing tearing apart his sartorial soul. Poor Mike, poor t-shirts.
Two years was long enough. It was time to build a wardrobe!
Day 1
Before, our bedroom had a dizzying array of clothing organizers. Yuck:
Refining the second bedroom
...and another fence story
Hello, fine people. It’s been awhile since our last update but we have been busy, busy, busy over here at the Red Rowhouse. Mike and I went on a vacation. Then I went on a second vacation with some lady friends. And in between, here and there, we have been updating various things.
Mending Fences
When we commissioned Long Fence back in February for the patio fence, we also wanted them to fix our borky fence in the front yard. Perhaps you never noticed but one of these things is not like the others:
Patio project begins
and will likely never end...
Because of the reno, we missed using our patio during the nice weather months of this year. But we’re trying to salvage as much as we can by doing some PATIO UPGRADES, i.e. replacing the back fences! In truth, we actually paid for this blasted fence months ago but Long Fence apparently takes a Long Time To Do Anything. Anyway…
Stepping Back in Time
Here is what the patio originally looked like. This pic is actually from the listing so when I saw it the first time I was mainly jazzed about having a parking spot. The fence is on the party lines so we had mismatched styles between the neighbors. Both sides certainly looked weathered. Taken in Nov 2014:
