HOW ARE YOUR SUMMER PROJECTS GOING, readers? What are you getting done? What do you fear will never get done? Me, hopeless. Wrote a check for some new landscaping work, but other than that, too busy with work, the blog, visitors, the usual. And all you lurkers, make my day and leave a comment, for gosh sakes.
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Richard in Montreal says
I am leaving this comment in one of the few seconds in the last week I have not been up a ladder. My husband and I just moved into our first (and with any luck, last) house — a fab 1960 bungalow with 6, count ’em, 6 bedrooms . I have spent all week stripping and sanding the living room/ dining room paneling and ceiling beams. It is the most arduous job I have ever undertaken. I still have detail sanding to do and then staining etc. If it doesn’t look perfect at the end of all of this, I am going to chuck a sander or two through the window. I curse the person who sometime in the 80’s, decided this lovely cedar should be painted plum.
Fostermamas says
I’m going to delurk! I’ve been reading your blog for a few months while we’ve been house hunting. We close on our new house at the end of the month….a 1956 ranch in a suburb of St. Louis, MO.
My summer project is to…..DO NOTHING. I’m an interior designer by trade but after reading your blog I’m not going to rip out the pink bathtub with crystal handles. I’m gonna play it up and leave it the way it is.
Now how do I clean that original 1950’s grout in my pink tile? 🙂
Happy Daze says
My summer project is to buy an old house from the 1930s or 1940s. It’s harder than I expected to find one in original condition with all features intact, but I’m hopeful something will come up.
Tut says
Joe, far out! Great looking kitchen. Love the Bewitched ovens.
Joe says
[img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3201/3740652782_a17967a21e.jpg[/img]
hopfully this one works, if not, here’s the direct link to a pic of the kitchen:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3201/3740652782_a17967a21e.jpg
Joe says
My kitchen is about 3/4 of the way done. I’m waiting on an estimate for the countertops, then I can work on the backsplash.
Don’t mind the ugly Microwave, it’s going to be stuffed on the other side of the fridge when we’re done. The counters are going to be Formica with chrome trim and a teal subway tile backsplash.
RetroRuth says
Uh! We have some mystery condensation in part of our basement which we are trying to find out the origin of, and just may end up by a dehumidifier for that part until we can find the real solution.
The grout in the bathroom tiles needs to be replaced in all three bathrooms (blue, pink and peach), don’t want any one to crack since there is pretty much no hope of replacements. Speaking of which, if anyone has a good way to invisably patch a cracked colored tile, let me know. We have put a coat of clear caulk over it, but a permanent fix would be good. We have three in in the shower of our pink bathroom that we want to fix before they get worse. We also have a wooden cabinet butted up against the shower in the master bath, and the side is warped and moldy. We need to find someone to come in and fix just one side of the cabinet, and not someone who is going to try to talk us into replacing the whole thing.
Our garden is also seriously overgrown, and extensive thinning is going to take place in later summer/early fall.
Besides that, we are going to work on wall art for all the rooms. Doesn’t sound like a big deal, but Hubs is an artist with tons of paintings, and we have to decide which are going to be hung and get them (expensively) framed. We also need to decide on lamps for the master bedroom.
Jeez, is that enough yet?? Good topic, Pam, love to read everyone’s projects!
sumac sue says
Just trying to keep up with the yardwork. A cool, rainy summer has made it lush out there.
Kathy says
As a matter of fact, we just got one of Pam’s recommendations for a new bath sink, the Kohler Tahoe, installed today! It looks sooooo nice!
Jane (aka Elvis) says
Why do I always think I’m going to get so much done “over summer”? I guess the long days lure me into a false sense that I have more time. But, this summer, I seem to have less time because there is a lot of garden maintenance that needs to be kept up. After all, I planted all these things last year, so I want them to thrive.
So, short answer: keeping my new garden growing seems to be my one and only summer project. Boring, but infinitely rewarding.