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Curtains 1.2.
Living room ceiling fan 2.0, with substantial advisory help from Dad, chisel work on the joist, and wire nuts by flashlight.
As a relatively new homeowner, I’m always relieved and surprised when I do something to my house that doesn’t result in catastrophe. (And, frankly, always terrified by how bad things always are in their current state, said state being the one in which the last owner left them.) But I’m starting to see why people want to build their own homes: the chance to do it right, from the first time, the ground up.
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It’s a great photo. It’s even greater that it got put up with your dad. I love that.
Curtains instead of blinds? I’m a blinds lover. I don’t want any curtains anywhere.
Every time I do something electrical in my house, I spend days worrying that it’ll suddenly burst into flames.
I’m glad that you’ve posted! I know how busy you are this year at the school on the Hudson, but I’ve missed you!
Now that we’re into year two at Chez New, I’m starting to see the little things I want to change. Like the color of the kitchen–too dark. Your prowess and patience in replacing the fan is very impressive. I’m like Scott–well, almost like Scott. I don’t even try to repair the electical stuff.
Yeah, I’m always nervous around electrical stuff too. Still, it’s a step, and there’ll be more. Biggest priority will be more adequately winterizing the home — the kitchen’s cold and drafty.
chiselling the joints?! ugh.
thank goodness for Dads who can do electrical work! I have the same fan in both my bedrooms and another on the front porch (!) thanks to the Pops. (Plus 47 new electrical outlets 🙂
Congrats on the house and the curtains. Curtains are better wind-breakers on old windows than blinds, btw. I like both.
Thanks, Cheryl and Joanna. Dad’s advice is definitely invaluable, and he’s encouraged me to replace some of the other old electrical as well.
Maybe you’d like to come out and visit as we can work on my house together? Electrical isn’t really so bad, once you do it a few times. For me, I end up borrowing a neighbor’s volt meter so I can be sure to get the positive and negative properly, even though I don’t know how much it matters with AC. Still, it’s nice to do it right. I installed light/fans last spring and they have radio control switches in the wall that my niece described as looking like an iPod. How much cooler can a light switch get than that? What I had to do is put in more insulation in the crawl space, finish painting several things, put in quarter-round in the dining room and our bedroom and work on the back deck, never mind the yard and all the branches that fell in the snow last night. A homeowner’s work is never done. When was your house built? Ours was built in 1928.