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05Sep 2013

Lay Back and Enjoy the Show

by Nicole ⋅ 3 Comments

The husband’s favorite home improvement we made early on was wall mounting the TV in the living room. For the past year we have discussed doing the same in our master bedroom. If it was a simple wall mount we probably would have knocked it off the to do list a while back, however to make the TV more visible from bed we needed to do a corner wall mount. And of course, the corner we wanted to put the TV in isn’t close to the cable outlet.

Being the super handy person he is, the husband decided we could run the cable wire ourselves (read himself) instead of hiring an electrician to install a cable outlet in the spot we want to have the TV. The husband’s DIY electrical solution cost only about $45. We purchased the following:

Cable Clips (we actually already had these in the house from another project)
Coaxial Cable (x2)
Coaxial Cable Connector

Plus we purchased the wall mount for an additional $60. When looking at the picture the head of the bed is next to the window so one must turn their head to the left in order to see the TV.

Dresser Before:

Sophi totally photo bombed the picture with her ball! :)

Dresser After:

This corner is to the left of our his/her closets before:

Corner After:

Although the wires along the door frames don’t bother me they are apparently driving my husband crazy. What’s driving me crazy is the wires hanging down to the cable box. We need to install a shelf under the TV for the DVD player and cable box. Once we do that this issue will be solved:

And thennnnn the husband can execute his project to hide the cable wire underneath the trim. Though, this will have to wait until after the nursery renovations are complete.

We are loving the new positioning of the television. It makes watching TV in bed so much easier! Not only do I like the position of the TV now, but I think the dresser looks better without the TV on it. What do you think of our wall mount?

Happy Home Improvements!

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02Oct 2012

Daddy-Do List

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You’ve probably heard of the honey-do list, but when my father comes to visit it’s more of a Daddy-do list. Ever since I moved into an apartment in college I’ve always had a list of things for him to fix or do while he’s visiting me. There was one time my parents came to visit and my dad walk in the door, looked at me and said “so what do you want me to do this time?”. I couldn’t help but chuckle a little. Although he might sometimes pretend to be annoyed by my wanting him to do stuff around my house or fix my computer I think deep down he loves it.

So when he arrived a few weekends ago for a visit I already had my daddy-do list planned out. The last time he visited us in the condo he installed a dimmer switch in the living room. The best part of the dimmer switch in the living room is we can make “movie theater” lighting when watching tv. I love it. I mean who doesn’t like lights that dim?!?!

Anyways, I wanted him to install a couple of additional dimmer switches in the condo, but the big project I had in mind was building us a screen door. As I had mentioned in my herb garden post we have this little “smokers balcony” off our living room. Since the weather in DC is finally getting cool it’s nice to open the window and the fresh air in. That’s front door offers a lot of air, but doesn’t keep the bugs out. Seriously my legs and hands were eaten alive by the mosquitoes that got in our house. So you know what that means … clearly we need a cheap/DIY screen door.

That picture was taken prior to moving in. I promise we now have furniture in the living/dining room. My dad was up to the challenge and here’s how we (read my dad) made the screen door.

What you need:

First he measured the door frame and then cut the aluminum screen frame down to size. We purchased 4 pieces of frame. We probably should have bought an extra just in case because somehow we cut the frame a little too small. Luckily my dad is a master problem solver and with a little cooking twine we were able to add in the extra amount of space we need.

After my dad figuring out how to fix our little measuring problem we laid the screen out over the door frame. Make sure to give yourself a little extra screen around the edges. You don’t want it too tight or the screen door will bend inwards.

Take the screen spline and roller and attach the screen to the frame.

Then we cut off the extra screen along the edges. We realized there was nothing to hold onto when pulling the screen door into place. Sooooo Daddy to the rescue as always. We put screws in to use as handles. At some point I plan to go ahead and buy one more piece of aluminum frame and attach that so the handle is a little easier to grab. For now the screws are working out just fine!

So there you have it. A pretty easy, cheap and quick DIY screen door.

Best part is you can barely tell there’s a screen door in there unless you get close up to it. Here’s your close up:

Happy home improvements and a little DIY!

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