A couple weeks ago I started getting the "fix things up" itch again. I don't know why. Maybe because things were too easy? Maybe the spring bug a few months late? Either way, I challenged myself (slash Ami...who does not get that itch, ever) to do something everyday to improve our home. Here's a week of house tweaks, nothing huge, but little things that I think we have to keep doing every once and a while.
Day 1: Cleaning the Range Hood
This actually took DAYS (and we're not done yet, but have exhausted the home depot of brasso, the miracle product). Scrubbing and scrubbing and scrubbing we found that under the black-brown hood is actually beautiful gleaming copper. Seriously we have gone over this thing with brass, water and soap, plain water, vinegar and salt, plain vinegar...we have one layer left, just need a final coat of our beloved brasso. Once Home Depot restocks it...
Day 2: Living Room Pictures
This wall always bothered me and never seemed quite "right". I thought it was because we didn't get an area rug yet, but as it turns out the 5th picture up there made the difference (at least for me). We added the one all the way on the Left Bottom, by the way.
Day 3: Eitan's room
These pictures have been hanging out just leaning along the wall since we moved in last June. No more! I want to do another row of pictures above, but we'll get there when I find something hang-worthy. No reason to rush, it only took a year to get those 5 things up...
Day 4: Our Bathroom
See a trend? Hanging things? This is a super close up engineer print of a photo that Ami took last winter of a bizzare section of tree stump outside. It's cool. Staples will super enlarge any image on very thin blueprint paper in black and white for like 3 dollars. Ami says the photo looks terrible, and that my camera didn't do a good enough job to enlarge it to that size, but from where I sit, I think it's such an interesting image that it works.
Day 5: The Guest Room
Just another picture hung up! Really basic stuff that I'd just put off...
Day 6: Brasso Strikes Again, Stairrails
I love this product. Took the rusty looking blackish rails to disco awesome shiny brass. Beautiful!
This is the bar that goes on the bottom of the sliding door to the screened in porch when the doors locked, an extra insurance. Ami's brother pointed out that it was an eyesore of metal amongst newly (okay, not so newly, but still) painted white trim, and I figured a quick coat of spray paint- quick fix. It was, until I ran out of spray paint so only did the right side one, and it needs another coat, but I'm waiting until Home Depot restocks their brasso to head over and get more.
That's it 7 little things I did to kickstart the summer DIY bug. Returning to our regularly scheduled pictures of cute boys next time!
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