Can you imagine having your room decorated like this when you were a kid?
It’s a cool room design, but sleeping in the jaws of an animal? A dinosaur no less! Wow … talk about nightmares for the first couple of weeks!
I need kitchen reno ideas – please
I can’t wait until we get a chance to redo our kitchen. I have no idea what the former home owners were thinking when they renovated. They had only renovated a year or so before we bought the house, but they went the cheap route – new floor and really cheap cabinets.
The fridge between the back door and the basement door all by itself so it basically looks strange where it is and makes it hard to use either door. The fridge is going to move to the other side of the room when we renovate. The stove is an old gas stove and it’s beside the kitchen door so there’s only a little bit of counter space to one side of the stove. I’ve got our big microwave beside the stove so if I’m carrying something hot I have to be sure that I can hold it for a few steps as there’s no place to put anything down quickly!
I won’t even begin to get started on the melamine cupboards and the cabinet hardware! Or the very small double sinks!
Kitchen renos are really expensive though … I’m trying to think if there’s a way I can renovate better than the former home owners, but without spending $30,000 doing it! The best way to do that is of course for us to do the majority of the work ourselves.
We’ve also thought of going to the local Habitat For Humanity Store, there’s one just about five miles from here, to look for used kitchen cabinets. We’ve looked before and you can get some nice wooden ones for great prices. Even if they’re a bit outdated they’re better than the melamine cabinets we’ve got now.
Got any ideas for me as to how else we can do an inexpensive kitchen reno?
We really need to replace our broken mailbox
I feel like a broken record. We need a new mailbox so bad and I haven’t managed to get out and get a new one. We’ve need a new mailbox for oh at least six months. The hinge on ours doesn’t work very well anymore. It’s noisy and stays open most of the time. When you try to shut the mailbox it almost feels like the lid is going to break.
I found a company that sells a number of different types of mailboxes online. They have everything from residential mailboxes to commercial mailboxes. We’ve got a small house and virtually no front yard so I need something that suits a small house.
at Mailboxixchange.com I really shouldn’t have trouble finding what I need. They’ve apparently got over 1500 mailboxes!
I’d love to get a mailbox that stands on a post, but as I said we’ve got a very small front yard and I don’t think that style would really suit our house or even our neighborhood. The mailbox we currently have is a wall mount style and I think that we’ll stick with that type if only I can find something that I really like.
I’ve barely scratched the surface browsing the site, but so far I like what I see as there’s some very nice styles of mailboxes. If you’re looking for a new mailbox visit the site and see if you can find something that suits your home.
Planning our kitchen remodel
I want to bounce an idea off of you.
We’re planning our kitchen renovation. The reno won’t happen for a while, but it’s good to plan.
Our kitchen is fairly small. Maybe 18 feet long by 10 feet wide. Since our kitchen is on the small side, and since we tend to eat either in the living room, I’m ashamed to say while watching TV, or in the dinning room at a very nice dinning room table we really don’t need a kitchen table.
I have two ideas.
One is to knock out part of the wall between the kitchen and dinning room. It would end up looking like an open rectangular window with a nice counter on it. I thought perhaps that we could set that area up as a breakfast nook with bar stools in front of it. We could sit there and eat, or if we were entertaining a guest or two could sit on a bar stool and talk to me while I work in the kitchen.
My other idea is to leave the kitchen walls intact, but to get a cupboard, perhaps on wheels, that would most often be near the kitchen window but that could be used moved around the kitchen and used as extra counter space if necessary. I guess it would be a movable kitchen island? I could even have some really nice folding chairs that I could store in the corner of the room and if we wanted to we could sit at this nice cupboard/ kitchen island if we wanted to.
What do you think of those ideas? If you had a small kitchen and were faced with those choices which one would you pick?
New furniture and extra room for guests
I don’t have much spare time these days, but when I do have the time I occasionally visit online stores looking for furniture that might suit our house when we finally have all of our renovations finished.
Right now I’m thinking of what kind of furniture to get for our basement when we are finished renovating it. I’m not sure we’ll have room but I’d like to have a spare bedroom down there. Most definitely it will be a recreation room with a TV and at the very least a pull out couch for guests or if I ever get back to work, a place that I could sleep that would be cool during the day after I’ve done a night shift.
One of the sites I’m looking at right now is Century furniture. They have a very nice selection of household furnishings. Heck … I might even get a new couch for our living room and put our current couches and recycling chair in the basement. That could work too. Well except for the fact that our current living room couches are not pull out couches.
After living in such a small apartment for some many years and having sleep over guests drop by all the time I like having spare rooms (we do now) and if possible a pull out couch. The more comfortable sleeping room the better. I don’t like sleeping on the floor when I visit someones house – I will if I have to of course, so why should my guests?
Do you have a spare room or do you have a pull out couch that comes in handy when you have guests?
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