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.
