{"id":17026,"date":"2010-04-03T10:21:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T17:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=17026"},"modified":"2010-04-03T11:25:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T18:25:28","slug":"ghosts-of-home-improvement-projects-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/03\/ghosts-of-home-improvement-projects-past.html","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts of home improvement projects past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst cleaning out stacks of old papers from a cupboard where they&#8217;d sat since, oh, the turn of the century or so, I came across one that had a list of Home Improvement projects that we wanted to do (doubtless with the assistance of Jim and Ginger for most of them).\u00a0 The doc is dated 5 Oct 1999 (which makes it almost a year older than this blog).<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s see what we had in mind to do here (everything in <strong>bold <\/strong>is quoted), and what&#8217;s actually happened in the 10\u00bd years since then &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>OUTSIDE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>MAP<\/strong>: I wanted to develop a good map of the yard to note sprinklers, plantings, and plans.\u00a0 I never ended up doing this completely; I have lots of ad hoc sketches instead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>OUTSIDE &#8211; FRONT<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sprinkler &#8211; parking strip<\/strong>:\u00a0 Not sure whether this was referencing needing to do something with the sprinklers along the sidewalk (in which case it was relatively trivial), or putting a sprinkler in over on the far side of the driveway, by Old Tree Trunk (in which case &#8230; yeah, that didn&#8217;t happen, and isn&#8217;t likely to).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Terracing<\/strong>: This did happen &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/the-consortium\/sets\/72157610437048190\/\">in 2008<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trees<\/strong>:\u00a0 Ditto-likewise.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Path \/ steps<\/strong>:\u00a0 Same.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Porch light<\/strong>:\u00a0 We changed out the porch light early on.\u00a0 In fact, we added a second light to the other side of the garage, and I added a timer to the assembly.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Doorbell<\/strong>:\u00a0 I think we did this at the same time.\u00a0 The original doorbell on the house was right by the door; I think it was part of the overall intercom system in the house (now close to wholly gone, and never functional).\u00a0 At one point we replaced it with a wireless set, then later with a new doorbell, which we put on the garage wall for ease of installation, and put chimes both on the ground floor (on the stair landing, actually) and in the basement (for all those game sessions we were holding down there).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>OUTSIDE &#8211; SIDE &#8211; EAST<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Blue spruce? <\/strong>We bought a live Colorado Blue Spruce for our first Christmas, before learning that we really couldn&#8217;t keep it inside at that season for more than a few days (otherwise it thinks it&#8217;s spring and puts out new growth, which promptly dies when it goes back outside).\u00a0 So, like every other person in Colorado who had purchased a Blue Spruce, we thought we&#8217;d install it in the yard, albeit not (as too many others have done) right next to the house or the driveway or the front path, where it grows to a 50 foot monster that takes things over.\u00a0 In the end, we didn&#8217;t, and it died.\u00a0 Lesson learned.<\/li>\n<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><a title=\"The week before by The Consortium, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/the-consortium\/3203303176\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3357\/3203303176_1ee4d09220_o.jpg\" alt=\"The week before\" width=\"466\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<li><strong>Repaint gas pipe<\/strong>:\u00a0 I think this got done at some point. I don&#8217;t recall what the problem was at the time, unless this references the new gas pipe running from front of house to the kitchen, in which case it either wasn&#8217;t painted at all or had a very quick job done.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trim lilac<\/strong>:\u00a0 That wasn&#8217;t a Jimmy job.\u00a0 I&#8217;m guessing this was for the giant lilac behind the living room, which periodically needs major hacking (and doesn&#8217;t get it enough).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Replant along house &#8211; Remove juniper (S, N), pull stumps<\/strong>:\u00a0 We had some very large junipers when we moved in, all around the house.\u00a0 They&#8217;d started as small junipers, but you know how junipers go.\u00a0 Since I loathe trimming junipers (childhood trauma), we&#8217;d removed all the ones from the front of the house, but there were still two large ones on the side &#8212; one on the east side of the living room, one on the east side of the kitchen wall.\u00a0 We eventually got rid of them and planted lilacs in their place.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Replant along house &#8211; Remove uglies<\/strong>:\u00a0 There were three junipers freestanding in the long wedge of the side yard &#8212; Big-n-Ugly, Short-n-Ugly, and Fat-n-Ugly (as Margie called them).\u00a0 Over the coming months, we actually did get them cut down and stumps pulled &#8212; since one of the last pics I have pre-Katherine is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/the-consortium\/3203303176\/in\/set-72157612613696421\/\">next to the apple tree<\/a> we planted in honor of Katherine&#8217;s birth.\u00a0 They were, though, a huge pain.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dining room exit &#8211; doors, deck<\/strong>:\u00a0 We at one point had a fantasy that we would replace the current dining room windows, turn them into french doors, and extend the deck around the house to them, which would make for a nice way to open up the house at parties and provide some additional outside space.\u00a0 We never did this for a variety of reasons (zoning and lot lines being part of that), and likely never will.<\/li>\n<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><a title=\"East - Fencing by The Consortium, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/the-consortium\/3259912304\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3517\/3259912304_1520da5c23_m.jpg\" alt=\"East - Fencing\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<li><strong>Fence &#8211; remove old, add new and gate<\/strong>:\u00a0 The fence\/gates when we moved in were in pretty bad shape, and deteriorated fully over the next years.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/the-consortium\/sets\/72157613429102529\/\">In 2002 we finally got to this project<\/a>, and I took the opportunity to move the side fence line way forward, too.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fix sprinkler &#8211; weepy valve, leak<\/strong>:\u00a0 Okay, they can&#8217;t all be big, exciting projects.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Add sprinkler to where junipers were<\/strong>:\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I ever moved these up to next to the deck, and it&#8217;s a moot point now.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Path<\/strong>:\u00a0 We wanted to put a path through the side yard around to the back.\u00a0 Never got around to this; it might happen some day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>OUTSIDE &#8211; SIDE &#8211; WEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Clean \/ re-org<\/strong>:\u00a0 The side yard on the west side is paved &#8212; I think, with the driveway work that was\u00a0 done, that it was designed to be able to park an RV or boat or something.\u00a0 Obviously we&#8217;ve never done this, but it&#8217;s a bit of a mess, and always has been, with extra trash cans, firewood, stray flower pots, wheel-barrows, and big piles of rocks.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t a project so much as an ongoing effort.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pebbles into yard<\/strong>:\u00a0 The junipers in the front yard had decorative pebbles all around them, across the front patio and down the driveway.\u00a0 Which was, of course, all covered and infiltrated with matted juniper and other organic debris.\u00a0 So when we took out the junipers, we carefully pulled out the pebbles and stacked the many wheelbarrows-full in the side yard for future use.\u00a0 We actually did get some of them used as filler when the front yard was redone, but there&#8217;s still a sizeable stack there.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll find a use for them, someday.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Potting table<\/strong>:\u00a0 You know, that&#8217;s an excellent idea.\u00a0 I wonder why we&#8217;ve never done that.\u00a0 Though, to be sure, we never do as much potting and repotting as, say, Jim.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gate<\/strong>:\u00a0 See above on fence.\u00a0 This got done in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/the-consortium\/sets\/72157613429102529\/\">2002<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Spigot<\/strong>:\u00a0 Though the sprinkler line comes out of the house on this side, there&#8217;s no water spigot, which is annoying.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve toyed multiple times with putting one in, but never have.\u00a0 Someday.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fix \/ latch outer gate<\/strong>:\u00a0 Fixed and the latch was redone at some point, but it remains a problem, and probably will until the whole fence with the neighbor had to be replace.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>OUTSIDE &#8211; BACK<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Terracing<\/strong>:\u00a0 The back yard is on a bit of a hill, too.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve talked about both terracing the side-back, but also doing some terracing \/ steps down from house level around the edge of the deck to the house proper.\u00a0 Not likely to happen, but something like it might still.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Planter below deck<\/strong>:\u00a0 When the deck was smaller, it made sense to put in some sort of a planter (area or raised) below it.\u00a0 Now, not so much.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Door into basement<\/strong>:\u00a0 Another on one of those $5,000 projects, at least.\u00a0 The basement could, maybe, be made into a walk-out.\u00a0 We&#8217;d need an architect and some code reviews to be sure.\u00a0 If so, it would add substantially to the house value.\u00a0 Since we don&#8217;t use the basement so much, this has become a lower priority.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Replace lawn &#8211; buffalo grass? <\/strong>Margie loves buffalo grass, and it&#8217;s certainly a more eco-friendly (and low-maintenance) alternative to regular grass.\u00a0 Could still happen.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Babyproofing &#8211; slats, gate<\/strong>:\u00a0 The deck needed to be babyproofed from the anticipated baby.\u00a0 We did this with avalanche netting for several years, which worked out pretty darned well.\u00a0 The back gate needed baby proofing, too, since it was, um, off and lying across the gap sideways.\u00a0 We did this as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/the-consortium\/sets\/72157613429102529\/\">fence project<\/a> in 2002, and in the meantime used baby gates of various sorts on the deck itself to restrain wandering toddlers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>INSIDE &#8211; MASTER BEDROOM<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>New Closet<\/strong>:\u00a0 When we moved in, the master closet was a smallish walk-in.\u00a0 Margie filled that\u00a0 up, so I used the close in the craft room for my own clothes.\u00a0 Since that was to become the nursery, that was no good.\u00a0 So Jim came up with the idea of putting in closets across the east wall of the master bedroom, which we did, and those became for Margie.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fix up old closet<\/strong>:\u00a0 The old walk-in got made much more efficient (double-hanging the rods, adding shelfing, incorporating an old bureau of mine for drawers), and that became my closet.\u00a0 (This was all clearly on the agenda for Jim&#8217;s next visit).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paint bathroom<\/strong>:\u00a0 The master bath has never gotten any painting or redoing.\u00a0 That&#8217;s on the mid-term agenda at this point, though it&#8217;s likely to be a very involved (and expensive) project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>INSIDE &#8211; UPSTAIRS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Office &#8211; clean and org<\/strong>:\u00a0 This never really got done until the office was recast as the guest room and the Boxes o&#8217; Junk all got moved, shelved, or tossed.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/photos\/2007-office\/\">That was in 2007<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nursery<\/strong>:\u00a0 The old craft room, now that I was no longer using it as a dressing chamber, got emptied out (into the office, ahem) and turned into a nursery, complete with cheery blue walls with poofy clouds, and various glow-in-the-dark stars and constellation on the ceiling (the Big Dipper, Orion, and the two astrological signs that Kay was born on the cusp of).\u00a0 This (and the closets) all got done by May the following year, of course.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Babyproofing &#8211; slats, gate<\/strong>:\u00a0 We eventually decided that the railing in the balcony wasn&#8217;t kid-neck-snapping dangerous.\u00a0 We also ruled out putting a gate at the top &#8212; we just didn&#8217;t allow wandering upstairs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>INSIDE &#8211; KITCHEN<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pocket door casement<\/strong>:\u00a0 Our fridge is too big for the space, and the trim at the kitchen door had to be taken down for that.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve never done anything for that, and likely won&#8217;t until either (a) we remodel, or (b) we replace the fridge.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cabinet \/ paint over fridge<\/strong>:\u00a0 Again, we had to take out the small cabinet over the fridge space for the unit we bought, leaving primed drywall behind.\u00a0 This is still a problem, masked by all the boxes of foodstuff we keep on top the fridge.\u00a0 I doubt we&#8217;d put another cabinet in there (dead space), but some better organization of that space probably isn&#8217;t a bad idea.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Extend cabinets over microwave<\/strong>:\u00a0 The house originally had cabinets hanging across the peninsula, but these had been removed by an earlier tenant.\u00a0 That still left kind of an ugly cabinet arrangement there.\u00a0 Eventually we (Jim and I) replaced that cabinetry (piecing in with what had been removed), and that&#8217;s what we have today.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dishwasher &#8211; tile, install<\/strong>:\u00a0 We still had the original dishwasher when we moved in, and even when we retiled we left it in there.\u00a0 I was concerned we weren&#8217;t going to be able to put a new dishwasher in, but as I recall we made it possible and an installer got it in place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>INSIDE &#8211; FAMILY ROOM<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Corner console<\/strong>:\u00a0 Jim had long talked about putting in a console in the corner to support the TV, etc. We did eventually do this, though it became a much bigger project, involving cabinetry all around the family room.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paint out bookshelves<\/strong>: Part of the family room project, the existing built-ins were actually reskinned.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paint out mantle, add wood trim<\/strong>:\u00a0 Ditto.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tape storage? <\/strong>Tape.\u00a0 How quaint.\u00a0 Yes, we did end up with storage for our video tapes and DVDs and CDs as part of the family room project.<\/li>\n<li><strong>French door curtain<\/strong>:\u00a0 Removed, not replaced.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sliding door? <\/strong>The existing french doors on the house, both in their quality and in how they took over the breakfast room when opened.\u00a0 My thought had been to replace them with a sliding door, but Jim suggested, I believe, outward-swinging doors.\u00a0 Genius!\u00a0 When we replaced the doors, that&#8217;s what we got, and I love it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Upholster side chair: <\/strong>We eventually send the side chair and the sofa bed in for reupholstery.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Weather strip french door: <\/strong>See above.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fix plug by french door: <\/strong>Fixed.\u00a0 It&#8217;s now actually in the cabinet below the phone.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Speaker system. <\/strong>We never did wire the whole family room for sound.\u00a0 Instead, we make use of some cheap home entertainment speakers by the TV. Which, for our limited purposes, work just fine.\u00a0 Maybe someday, when wireless sound is cheaper and easier.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>LIVING ROOM<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dining room fixture: <\/strong>Replaced.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Entry hall fixture: <\/strong>Replaced.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hang the bell: <\/strong>We did, then took it down for the big dining room redo, then rehung it again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>STAIRS \/ RAILING<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dining room rails: <\/strong>We wanted to strip down the uprights of the railing between the living room and dining room, and paint out white the rail itself.\u00a0 Instead, we eventually built out a buffet.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Loft rails: <\/strong>This still remains on the List of Things to Do.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rest of the stairwell: <\/strong>Not\u00a0 sure what was left undone at that point, but it&#8217;s all done now.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stairwell light (x2?)<\/strong>:\u00a0 Fixtures replaced.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beam! <\/strong>Not sure if this refers the dark, ugly beam that remains in the family room (we think it&#8217;s load-bearing, esp. since the other ones originally in this model were taken out), or what.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s still there, and will probably need to be boxed in as part of the Big Paint &amp; Floor Project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it. What a strange journey it&#8217;s been all the work already done on the house, the stuff not done, and the stuff yet to be done (much of which wasn&#8217;t yet envisioned in the above list).\u00a0 It&#8217;s kind of cool seeing this glimpse of the personal future from the past.\u00a0 And all this investment in the place makes it less likely we&#8217;d ever want to move, of course, which suits us just fine.<\/p>\n<p>Nice house.\u00a0 I think we&#8217;ll keep it.<\/p>\n<p>(Many thanks to Jim &amp; Ginger for all their help in this endeavor.\u00a0 And the shareholders of Home Depot owe us, big time.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst cleaning out stacks of old papers from a cupboard where they&#8217;d sat since, oh, the turn of the century or so, I came across one that had a list of Home Improvement projects that we wanted to do (doubtless with the assistance of Jim and Ginger for most of them).\u00a0 The doc is dated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/03\/ghosts-of-home-improvement-projects-past.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ghosts of home improvement projects past&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33724,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/13\/sprinklers-energized-for-the-s.html","url_meta":{"origin":17026,"position":0},"title":"Sprinklers energized for the s&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 13-May-13 6:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Sprinklers energized for the season. 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