Well, the chairs are sort of almost finished. They’ve been primed and painted twice, but they’re going to need one last coat of paint, and I didn’t have a chance to get to them last week. After the last coat, they’ll be ready to put together I hope, and then we’ll see what we’ve got. [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Chairs Update
Posted in Current Affairs, Plans on February 27, 2012 |
Protected: Fashion Plate
Posted in Ruaridh Gallery on February 27, 2012 |
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Protected: Our Little Bear
Posted in Ruaridh Gallery on February 21, 2012 |
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Spring is On the Way
Posted in Art, Current Affairs on February 17, 2012 |
So say these tulips, just before they drop their petals.
Sanding the chairs is actually pretty easy too. I worked outside in the outdoor room, because my little hand sander doesn’t have a dustbag on it, which means paint dust goes everywhere. (Reminder: wear a good mask so you’re not inhaling it.) I wasn’t worried about taking all the paint off so just scuffed up [...]
Protected: Happy Valentine’s
Posted in Holidays, Ruaridh Gallery on February 14, 2012 |
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As it turns out, redoing the seat of a kitchen chair is easy peasy. Mostly because it involves a staple gun instead of a sewing machine. First, you pop off the seat (ours were secured by four screws) and flip it over to work on its underside. Then you take all the old fabric off [...]
To Rug or Not to Rug? That is the Question.
Posted in Before & After, Floors on February 10, 2012 |
Well, we’ve decided to rug already, so that’s not REALLY the question, but the jury’s still out on whether this rug is it. We decided to rug because we thought it would be nice to put the baby down and lie next to him without always leaving the room to do it. So a rug [...]
Protected: First Bike Ride
Posted in Ruaridh Gallery on February 10, 2012 |
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We bought six solid but ugly chairs from our local Restore, a used building material shop run by Habitat for Humanity. I’ve had four slipcovered Ikea chairs as my kitchen chairs for years, but The Other One finds them a tad too small and uncomfortable to boot, so it’s time to solve the problem. (They [...]
