Monday, August 03, 2009

Progress

Two more home projects - one large and one small. First the small: Several years ago I converted the front hall closet into a pantry. Great for food storage, but left a need for alternate coat storage. My brand new orange paint job called for coordinated coat hooks. I found some unfinished shaker peg rails at Lowes. A little woodburning and painting and voila! And yes, I did use wall anchors to secure the rails. Mitten storage was accomplished by hanging a felted bag from one of the pegs.




The bigger project has a long way to go. Having determined that the massively ugly and unhygienic kitchen carpeting was not glued down with asbestos-ridden glue, I couldn't wait to start tearing it up. I spent Friday evening tearing up about half of it. Then I spent much of Saturday pouring boiling water on petrified carpet glue and scraping with a variety of implements. Not a fun process on a particularly hot day. Very swampy. Sadly the installers used an orbital sander to rough up the 1956 linoleum, so the floor revealed is less than optimum. Even damaged, the scarred linoleum is vastly preferable to icky carpeting. Down the road there will be tile. Until then, there will be lots more scraping.

3 comments:

Sharon said...

I think the scruffy linoleum is much better than the tired carpet - no reward for work done there. But the hangers are dead on!

Ma and Pa said...

Even though you cannot finish the tile work now, it must feel much better getting the frustrating carpet out. Now you can prepare for the new. Love the hangers and the projects of knitting. One "bite" at a time and you will get it all done!
Hugs,
Nickie

magnusmog said...

Love the hangers!