Browsing Tag: DIY

Gas Meter Cabinet & Wine Rack is Complete!

One more to-do item on our basement list has officially been crossed off! We finished the cabinet and wine rack hiding our gas meter a couple weeks ago and are loving it. Tim would like me to paint something to hang up, so I’m thinking about it and looking at inspiration. We went to our local grocery […]

Gas Meter Cabinet & Wine Rack Pt. 3

So the last time I did an update on this project, our cabinet looked like this… After we dry-fitted the wine rack, it was removed so we could add a “floor” for the rack to sit on, add smaller pieces of wood to help finish framing in the sides, and then we painted the inside […]

Gas Meter Cabinet & Wine Rack Pt. 2

So if all goes according to plan, the cabinet and wine rack being built to hide the gas meter should be ready for paint this weekend! (Insert 1,000 more exclamation points here). We (as in Tim and his dad) took a break from working on it through the holidays, but are back at it. The […]

2014 Home Goals

I made a list over last weekend of house projects I reeeeaaally want to get done this year. Some have been dragged out for far too long (like the basement) and then there are the ones we’ve been saying we need to do since the first year of living at the house. Last weekend I […]

Gas Meter Cabinet & Wine Rack Pt. 1

Project “build a cabinet to hide our gas meter” has finally started. The cabinet to hide the water meter was done last spring, and now it’s time to get the other cabinet done. As of right now, the plan is to divide the column in half—the top would be a cabinet with two doors that […]

Remember That Basement Project?

You know, the one we started roughly two and a half years ago that gets worked on here and there? Yeah, that one. Well here’s an update on it. It’s still not done. But we are soooo close! At times I feel like nothing has been done in the last year since carpet was installed, […]