Garage Finished

The garage is finished! We got our slidelok cabinets installed yesterday and the floor was finished last week. I'm very happy with how it all turned out, now I just need to put back everything that's been moved out. It'll never look as nice again :(

The pool

I turned the magic switch that puts the pool water through the solar panels on the roof on Thursday and by Sunday the water had warmed up from 50 to 65°F. It feels cold once you're in but it should warm up more soon and it's actually fine for swimming. It was nice to finally get in the pool again, feels like ages since we last used it. Last year we could use the pool by April 15th so it's been a late spring for sure.

A very busy weekend

It was a very, very busy weekend. Saturday I assembled some IKEA furniture. I'm getting really good at it now. Here's some top tips, use glue. Take a kitchen towel and cut it into 1" strips and use these to clean up the excess glue that seeps out. Assemble it on the cardboard that it comes in. Since you're gluing stuff, be very very careful will the instructions and don't take a break until you're sure you have everything right.

Here's the biggest piece I made. It's great for showing off Pooh stuff (until the 'quake hits). We had a little difficulty picking it up, I'd checked it was in stock and when I went to pick it up, it was 'in the air' which meant I had to go back the next day, bitching and moaning about it was worth a $25 gift card though. I still need to align the doors a little. I'm pretty pleased with it. I also put together a toy box for the baby's room.

The rest of Saturday and almost all of Sunday I worked on emptying out the garage, we're getting the floor epoxied this week, in preparation for the cabinets coming in a few weeks. It's going to look great! I've never seen the garage empty, since there was a tenant when I moved in and we bought the house while we were renting it. It's amazing how much stuff we have in there (too much leftover wood from other projects) and hopefully the cabinets will help us keep it organized. I cleaned the curbs since we didn't want them pressure washing it and damaging our new walls.

I also learned all about SketchUp this weekend and want a model of our home in the worst way, I'm going to have to work pretty hard on making that happen.