Home Improvements
Nov. 10th, 2019 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI've been in my house for about twenty years now. In that time, I have not redone anything or repainted anything or upgraded anything. It's... looking a bit shabby here. The carpets are visibly faded. The paint is definitely not fresh-looking anymore. I did replace three windows a few years ago but I didn't ever trim around them even though I own a miter saw.
It's not like I don't know how to do home improvement stuff. I am totally completely handy at home improvement. Like, that's my fucking job. I get PAID to do the wild thing.
I want to redo the floors. I want to paint. I want to extend the kitchen wall, upgrade and tile the bathroom, etc. I have PLANS, see, PLANS to neaten and to thin the herd and to Marie Kondo my life. (Not really. Not throwing away that much stuff. But quite a bit of stuff will go.)
And to start this, today I ran a test-run of fulling Cascade 220, knitted stockinette, held double, on size 8 straights. See, I want a new bathroom mat. I haven't had one forseveral about ten years and I really want a new one. Hell, I want new bathroom colors. (The paint is currently a greyish green, not very minty, more grey than that. I should take some pix.) I want a New Bathroom with a marble-looking vinyl pop-n-lock floor and Off-White walls and cobalt-blue and ice-white tile for the tub surround. And a fulled woolen bath mat made of squares I knitted and fulled and sewed together.
Some of the home improvements will have to wait until I get some measurements and materials ordered. But the fulling... I can do that. I have the right yarn (but not the right color) and I have the needles and I know what I want there. So I knitted up a test square and I am right now testing how much it shrinks in the fulling process.
It's not like I don't know how to do home improvement stuff. I am totally completely handy at home improvement. Like, that's my fucking job. I get PAID to do the wild thing.
I want to redo the floors. I want to paint. I want to extend the kitchen wall, upgrade and tile the bathroom, etc. I have PLANS, see, PLANS to neaten and to thin the herd and to Marie Kondo my life. (Not really. Not throwing away that much stuff. But quite a bit of stuff will go.)
And to start this, today I ran a test-run of fulling Cascade 220, knitted stockinette, held double, on size 8 straights. See, I want a new bathroom mat. I haven't had one for
Some of the home improvements will have to wait until I get some measurements and materials ordered. But the fulling... I can do that. I have the right yarn (but not the right color) and I have the needles and I know what I want there. So I knitted up a test square and I am right now testing how much it shrinks in the fulling process.
