I can see that I have house on the mind...
I promise that in a couple weeks there will be a new post about art...
Art Tents, ideally!
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
ikea...
Yes, I admit it!
I LOVE IKEA...
I can't help it...things are cheap and cool there!
And Chicago is littered with the stores (ok ok there are only two but Matt's family lives maybe two blocks from one of them!)
And now with the new house on the horizen, Matt and I have been combing their stock for possible new furniture...
I love that most of the stuff that we are looking at is raw pine, so I could treat it to match the furniture that I am making for the house!
And I can't wait to see if we can get some of this stuff in the as is area!
We might have to rent a truck!
I LOVE IKEA...
I can't help it...things are cheap and cool there!
And Chicago is littered with the stores (ok ok there are only two but Matt's family lives maybe two blocks from one of them!)
And now with the new house on the horizen, Matt and I have been combing their stock for possible new furniture...
I love that most of the stuff that we are looking at is raw pine, so I could treat it to match the furniture that I am making for the house!
And I can't wait to see if we can get some of this stuff in the as is area!
We might have to rent a truck!
wood, wood , and more wood...
Soooo....
I am a lunatic and am going to attempt to make the following for our new house and our move:
-- a 96" x 84" set of built-in shelves (for the wall that bridges between the kitchen and living room)
-- a 64" x 32" set of built-in shelves (like the one at the bottom of the stairs in the image in the past post)
-- a window seat/storage unit (for under one of the double windows in the kitchen or living room--mostly so that the cats can look out!
-- a shoe rack and bench for the hall to the back door!
-- and a flat file for prints and paper to go in the loft bed space in one of the bedrooms
Today I am learning to use the router for the first time so that I can make grooves (I guess they are called dados) for the shelves/dividers/supports to slide into.
And so I can soften the edges of the furniture.
I am going to try to get all the cutting, routering and basic sanding done this weekend...then I will move the wood to the garage for oiling, specialty sanding and poly.
I am also going to create a loft in my school office. Which, well, will make it a tad tight in there...but with losing the garage--what can I really do right now! I need somnewhere to put silk screens, paper and prints, and boxes of stuff for demos, etc.
$400 worth of 1x 10's, 2 x 4's and plywood are being delivered to the Art Building on Saturday morning!
I will have splinters by noon!
I am nervous!
I am a lunatic and am going to attempt to make the following for our new house and our move:
-- a 96" x 84" set of built-in shelves (for the wall that bridges between the kitchen and living room)
-- a 64" x 32" set of built-in shelves (like the one at the bottom of the stairs in the image in the past post)
-- a window seat/storage unit (for under one of the double windows in the kitchen or living room--mostly so that the cats can look out!
-- a shoe rack and bench for the hall to the back door!
-- and a flat file for prints and paper to go in the loft bed space in one of the bedrooms
Today I am learning to use the router for the first time so that I can make grooves (I guess they are called dados) for the shelves/dividers/supports to slide into.
And so I can soften the edges of the furniture.
I am going to try to get all the cutting, routering and basic sanding done this weekend...then I will move the wood to the garage for oiling, specialty sanding and poly.
I am also going to create a loft in my school office. Which, well, will make it a tad tight in there...but with losing the garage--what can I really do right now! I need somnewhere to put silk screens, paper and prints, and boxes of stuff for demos, etc.
$400 worth of 1x 10's, 2 x 4's and plywood are being delivered to the Art Building on Saturday morning!
I will have splinters by noon!
I am nervous!
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Only three months till we move in!
Well, finally we have jumped through all the hoops and 59 First Street is as good as ours!
It inspected AMAZINGLY well. We only need to do a minimal amount of maintenance type work—extend gutters and other water diverting tasks, some landscaping, water seal the wood siding and deck, add and secure some basement support beams...
Really only little things!
The house has a dry basement, good electric and plumbing, half the roof is new and the other half has about 10 years left in it. It does not have termites or gas leaks...
We went in and measured everything yesterday, so we can begin to think about what to get rid of and what we may need.
It is all very exciting! I even have a little dogwood sapling that I am going to plant!
Oh, and I forgot to explain...
It is currently a rental house. So we will not close on the house until the current lease is up and the renters have moved out. So we close at the end of June and begin to move in on July 14th!!
It inspected AMAZINGLY well. We only need to do a minimal amount of maintenance type work—extend gutters and other water diverting tasks, some landscaping, water seal the wood siding and deck, add and secure some basement support beams...
Really only little things!
The house has a dry basement, good electric and plumbing, half the roof is new and the other half has about 10 years left in it. It does not have termites or gas leaks...
We went in and measured everything yesterday, so we can begin to think about what to get rid of and what we may need.
It is all very exciting! I even have a little dogwood sapling that I am going to plant!
Oh, and I forgot to explain...
It is currently a rental house. So we will not close on the house until the current lease is up and the renters have moved out. So we close at the end of June and begin to move in on July 14th!!
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