Our Life Together

Small Home Projects to Start off 2010.

Sometimes you go after a home improvement project, with planning, designing, and gusto.

Other times, the home improvement project plops in your lap regardless if you want to do it or not.

We’ve had both in the past few weeks.

The bane of Trevor’s existence in our home of late had been the disorganized, chaotic state of our closets. Specifically, our kitchen pantry where food items were crowding and falling over each other, our guest room closet which was the catch-all for accumulated stuff without a better place to put it, and our under-the-stairs storage closet also known as the pet, cleaning, and storage supercenter.

Determined to bring order and structure to these messes, we spent some time shopping around online and in person. We finally made some purchases – simple plastic baskets to sort our pantry items, a few air-tight square containers for easy stacking and storing of loose rice, lentils, and pastas, and then stackable wire cubes to organize the other closets into compartments. The result is a dream come true for us, but especially for Trevor… (our newly sorted guest room closet shown below)

The second project landed in our lap. But it really landed in our lap about 2 months ago and we put off doing anything about it. One day many weeks back we discovered that our cold water faucet could not be stopped; a perpetual drip was occurring no matter how we turned the faucet handle to shut it off. Then we discovered a leak under our bathroom sink. Items below the sink were soaked and we were not sure what to do. So we did the easy thing: shut the cold water off completely. So yes, we have had nothing but hot water in our bathroom sink. Only a minor inconvenience when, say, brushing your teeth. Then the sink leaked again from the pipes. So, push came to shove, and we reluctantly agreed to fix it… ourselves.

We purchased a nice, new brushed nickel double bathroom faucet fixture, and Trevor along with my father-in-law Jamie tackled the problem. While the problem was not one we were looking to undertake, the fellas undertook it with gusto all the same!

In progress shots…

The final result…