Gutter Guards
When we saw a tree growing from our gutters we knew it was time to do something about them. We only wanted a band-aid as we plan on replacing them entirely when we get a new roof, so we decided to get the cheap roll of plastic mesh you jam in the gutters.Halley worked on the shorter roof (above the garage) while I went up on the main roof. After cleaning out all the gross junk in the gutters, we started cramming the gutter guards in. They fit in with pressure/friction and bow out a tiny bit because of that (by design).
How well will they work? Who knows! We'll find out soon enough.
Pseudo Landscaping
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We bought about 60 new bricks and wove them in with the existing bricks to lay out a new outline that looked a little nicer to us. Given that we are not professionals there is a bit of "wiggle" to our "straight" lines... I'll chalk that up to "charm".
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Bedroom Repaint
We decided it was time to start in on a relatively low cost project and tackle the first spare bedroom. Eventually a tiny human will live there, but for now it will serve as a guest room. At some point in the future we'll get the hardwood floors in the house refinished, but that is a project for another time...perhaps decade. We were clever enough to set up a time lapse for the work on most of the room (except painting the baseboard and trim).
We followed our now standard procedure for the bedrooms:
- Use oil based primer to prevent the wallpaper from bubbling up and falling off the walls (learned that trick from the debacle here)
- Put up crown molding and caulk our mistakes
- Paint ceiling and crown molding
- Paint walls
- Rip up carpet and remove tack strips and staples
- Paint baseboard and trim
- Call it a day, eat cheetos
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