Mission, accomplished
Although my body feels like I did much more today than I really did, I am happy to say that I met my goal of installing the left desk cabinets today. Here's the picture of the installed cabinets on the left, plus the "finished" desk on the right--lacking trim and messy as heck, but as finished as it's going to be til the left side is done!
The baseboard turned out to be a bigger pain than it was on the other side, but I pried it off at last. Of course, there never are any studs to be found where you need them. And neither of the stud finders I have works accurately. Too bad. I guess I need one of those laser ones. In the meantime, I just tried hit and miss. At least the cabinets are now attached to the walls, level (yeah!), and secure.
The next step is making the desktop, which I may purchase tomorrow--or not. I don't want to exhaust myself this weekend! I already spent the morning working in the garden, which is a chore in this humid, hot summer. (My hubby got me a truckload of gravel for the garden paths--desperately needed and long desired!) I don't want to wait too long to finish the desktop, though. It's hard to use the desk without one! I also need to buy new hinges to match the other desk before I attach the cabinet doors. Maybe I'll do the hinges tomorrow and the desktop next weekend.
My new project (ha!) is to figure out how to wire a phone jack in my youngest daughter's bedroom. I've never done it before, but the instructions online seem pretty straightforward. The problem is, the closest phone jack I can tap into is on the opposite side of the adjoining room. If I do that, I'll have a LONG run of cable against the baseboard, which I don't want. And I don't know if I can run it through the attic, over, and back down into her wall. I may try it, but I might need to get some help on that one.
I'm sure every newly built home today has a phone jack in every room, including the bathroom. Even though people are going to cell phones in vast numbers, you still need those jacks for certain things. In our case, the daughter is pining for a pink, fuzzy phone for her birthday. It's cute, I'll admit, but nothing I'd want. And, of course, it's a corded phone. I suggested getting one of those phones with multiple handsets to avoid the jack problem, but she doesn't want one. In fact, when I mentioned it, she said she thought she'd rather save up her money to have the phone company come out and put in a jack.
She's sharp, that girl. Always saving up her money for something she really wants. Right now, she's got more than $300 saved up toward a laptop computer. She's been saving birthday and Christmas money, plus part of her allowance, for about a year. She'll get that laptop, I'm sure of it.
When I was young, my sister and I saved up for a long time to get a used bike that we SHARED. It cost about $27. Times surely have changed!
The baseboard turned out to be a bigger pain than it was on the other side, but I pried it off at last. Of course, there never are any studs to be found where you need them. And neither of the stud finders I have works accurately. Too bad. I guess I need one of those laser ones. In the meantime, I just tried hit and miss. At least the cabinets are now attached to the walls, level (yeah!), and secure.
The next step is making the desktop, which I may purchase tomorrow--or not. I don't want to exhaust myself this weekend! I already spent the morning working in the garden, which is a chore in this humid, hot summer. (My hubby got me a truckload of gravel for the garden paths--desperately needed and long desired!) I don't want to wait too long to finish the desktop, though. It's hard to use the desk without one! I also need to buy new hinges to match the other desk before I attach the cabinet doors. Maybe I'll do the hinges tomorrow and the desktop next weekend.
My new project (ha!) is to figure out how to wire a phone jack in my youngest daughter's bedroom. I've never done it before, but the instructions online seem pretty straightforward. The problem is, the closest phone jack I can tap into is on the opposite side of the adjoining room. If I do that, I'll have a LONG run of cable against the baseboard, which I don't want. And I don't know if I can run it through the attic, over, and back down into her wall. I may try it, but I might need to get some help on that one.
I'm sure every newly built home today has a phone jack in every room, including the bathroom. Even though people are going to cell phones in vast numbers, you still need those jacks for certain things. In our case, the daughter is pining for a pink, fuzzy phone for her birthday. It's cute, I'll admit, but nothing I'd want. And, of course, it's a corded phone. I suggested getting one of those phones with multiple handsets to avoid the jack problem, but she doesn't want one. In fact, when I mentioned it, she said she thought she'd rather save up her money to have the phone company come out and put in a jack.
She's sharp, that girl. Always saving up her money for something she really wants. Right now, she's got more than $300 saved up toward a laptop computer. She's been saving birthday and Christmas money, plus part of her allowance, for about a year. She'll get that laptop, I'm sure of it.
When I was young, my sister and I saved up for a long time to get a used bike that we SHARED. It cost about $27. Times surely have changed!
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