Posts Tagged ‘work’

Basement renovation progress

I finally got around to leveling the kitchen floor.  I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to do it, other than wanting to make sure I did it right.  The floor is sloped down a bit into the bathroom area, and the place where the kitchen sink cabinet would go is about an inch and three-eighths below the surrounding area on one side.  So what I began doing yesterday was leveling the floor an inch on that side, and allowing it to gently fill the slope to a flat, level surface. 

I’m using leveling cement to do the job.  I’ve placed painted pieces of wood all around the edges of the area I’m going to fill, to make it easier to remove the pieces once I’m done.  The wood pieces are from three-eighths to a half an inch thick, to allow plenty of expansion room between the leveling cement area and the wall studs.  I’ve already primed the area using the recommended latex floor primer, and the next step was to mix up the cement and pour it out.

While waiting for the primer to dry, I also did some water system maintenance yesterday by changing out the carbon filter.  I do that about every three months, and it was about time.  I would have done it the other day with changing out the sediment filter, except that we had run out of carbon filters and therefore I had to go to the store to get some.  So that’s another project done. Read more…

My home office

I have my office on the east side of what used to be an old carport that was enclosed to make a storage room. We bought the house that way, and decided to turn the room into an actual sunroom that would be my office (though I originally insisted that it should be a family room).

The new sunroom has wall-to-wall windows on the west and north sides, and the east window was expanded during renovation to make it wider for more morning light. We have beautiful views to both the west and the east (the new carport is just to the north, so we just have a view of the cars in that direction). Light streams in from the east during the morning, right onto my desk which is centered on the east window.

I can see deer passing by, hummingbirds visiting the shrubs outside my window, and birds soaring in the sky. I can see every car that goes up and down our road, every neighbor that is out walking. I have a clear view of the sky, and can see storms brewing and winds blowing just as easily as I can see a beautiful sunrise. If I look downward, I see my laptop screen, and if I look just to the right I see my second monitor. If I’m up late, I can see the moon rising outside my window at night. Read more…