Today, Alok and my mom worked on getting the yard/leaves under control, as you can see here:
Alok raking the never ending pile of leaves
Our yard at the beginning of the day
Never ending battle with leaves on our roof (this gets cleaned off several times a week)
One of the pretty culprits
The yard about 7 hours later (notice the yard bags in the background)
After raking up the majority of the leaves, they proceeded to plant some grass seed. Alok then realized that he needed some straw to keep the seed in place. Off he goes to Farm and Home Supply, and here is what he comes back with:
Little did he know that one bail would have been enough. He proceed to cover the ground with a very thick layer of straw.
Very dirty Alok
Alok and his straw
My mom then informed him that he actually only needed a very thin layer. Oops.
While they worked on the yard, I proceeded to scrape off more wallpaper in the apartment. We finally realized what part of the issue is. Some of it is painted wallpaper, some of it is painted wall, but some of it is wallpaper that they then mudded over and painted. Are you kidding me? This area took me about 7 hours today:
At the beginning of the day
7 hours and a major hand cramp later
Alex joining in on the fun on a very dusty blanket
That's about all for now. Oh, I do have one question for you creative folk out there. We are debating what we are doing with our heating system. We may end up putting forced heat downstairs this year and disconnecting the upstairs pipes for the winter so they don't freeze. That wasn't the question, just the set-up. Anyway, if we do get rid of the boiler, we won't be needing these radiators:
Some of them are pretty cool looking. Besides selling them/scraping them, does anyone have any creative ideas of what to do with radiators (such as making a table, etc)? Most creative, but useful, idea gets the prize. What prize, you may ask? How about the prize of helping out a blogger who is typing despite a massive hand cramp.
Jessica
I'm impressed, to say the least. What a challenge. We would surely divorce if we took on this project. Good luck! I look forward to watching the progress. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Kristi. Congratulations on your new home. It looks great!
ReplyDeleteOk I'm home sick this afternoon so I'll take a shot at your radiator challenge!
ReplyDelete1. If possible, cut a 3 inch section off the top. Use the whole thing as a rack for pots and pans, or use two at a time to display china plates.
2. Turn entire radiator on end, hide catnip amongst the nooks and crannies, set near cat condo.
3. Same as above but with peanut butter for Alex.
4. Same as above but a smaller section ( cut 8 inches of radiator) as a birdfeeder outside.
5. Cut outer sections apart, reform decorative edges into picture frames, draw handles, etc.
That's all I can think of for now. I'll keep trying!
Molly
Turning it into a table on This Old House!
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Molly
The straw bales cracked me up! Haha I had to bring one home for our veggie garden and what a mess it made in my car! I can only imagine what your van looked like after.
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