Desk project

Hubby & I have caught the "building things" bug! Our latest project is new desk area for our living room/computer room. As you can see, we have Hubby's desk, the big one to the right. Then we have a hutch & 3 mismatched desks on the left. For some time, I have wanted to build in a desk/table to replace the stuff on the right.

So we build a desk. Here the kids are helping sand one of the desk parts.

It is a pretty simple design. 5 2x4s screwed together in a rectangle. Each desk part has 3 of these "legs". The top is a plywood piece that is 2x6.

We made 3 desk units. The one on the far right had to have about 2 ft. cut off in order to get it to fit.

After these desks sat in the living room for about 2 weeks, I finally had a nice day. We carried them to the garage where I sanded them. Then we turned them upside down. I painted the legs black to match Hubby's desk.

When the legs were dry, we turned them back upside right. Then I stained the tops & coated them with polycrylic. This took all took about 4 days. I love the way they turned out.

Today we carried them in & put them in place. They are a little darker than Hubby's desk but it makes that half of the room look more uniform. We still need to hook the 3 units together for extra stability.

Now we have a nice big table/desk for laptops, projects & school work. We even have room for extra laptops when we have StarCraft parties! Now to get the old desks moved to each of the kids' rooms & get the house put back in order.

I wonder what our next project will be??

 

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Our big project!

So, after Christmas, Hubby decided to get our bedroom cleaned out & make it more of a sanctuary for me. When he did this, we talked about making a frame for our bed. I told him I'd like to have our bed higher as it would make it easier to get out of bed.

I found a simple bed plan online & modified it. Hubby bought wood yesterday & we started our project.

I spent over an hour sanding all the wood down.

Then we build the outside frame.

It was pretty late so we slept on our mattress on the floor.

This morning we drilled holes & bolted the posts to the frame.

Here's the frame with posts attached.

Next we put braces in. Don't look too closely at our spacing!

Next we put plywood on top after we cut out the corners for the posts.

Then I took batting & material (old sheet) and covered the edges of plywood so we wouldn't get splinters.

Here it is finished.

Next we put our box springs on.

Then our select comfort bed. Hubby had to check it out.

Here is the finished product.

It ended up taller than we thought it would be. We need to get a couple of boards to put on each end to keep the mattress from sliding. Hubby is also talking about building me steps to make it easier to get in & out of bed. But other than that, our project is done!

 

 

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Visiting Family!

On Friday, after our beach fun, we headed down the coast some more. We went to Hubby's cousin Alan's.

Here, Allee & Jessica are playing with blocks.

Jamie is on far left. Autumn is standing. Next to Jamie is their friend Jessica. Alexis is in the leather chair. Jessica is on the floor.

Jessica, Alan & Allee.

Jamie, Autumn, Jessica & Alexis.

Jessica & Autumn.

Hubby & Alan.

David, Hubby (Jeff), Jessica, Jamie, Alan, Allee & Autumn. Alexis is not pictured.

Saying goodbye.

Hubby (Jeff) & Alan were talking so Allee & Autumn decide to climb in the van.

We had a great visit. The girls wanted us to stay or take them with us. Before we left, all 3 girls gave me hugs for Grandma & the Aunts!

We are definitely going to have to get together with them again. We hadn't seen them in about 5 years! Hopefully it won't be another 5!

 

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Silver Lake

When I first met Hubby, his parents' owned a small cottage on Silver Lake in north central Indiana. They sold it a few years later. Today, we went there & walked down memory lane with Hubby.

We stopped at Jeff's Mom's cousin Ruth's house.

This is the beautiful view from her backyard.

Hubby & kids on Ruth's dock.

A closer view of the beautiful trees on the other side of the lake.

2 houses down from Ruth's is the cottage that was Jeff's parents. This is the lakeside view. It's been added on to. The screened in porch side of the cottage is new.

Another view of back of the cottage.

Love this pic of the lake with the clouds reflecting on it.

This is Hubby & Ruth.

This is our whole family with Ruth.

The front of the cottage.

Another front view of cottage.

In this pic, the flat roofline area is the added on part.

The people who bought the cottage from Jeff's parents then bought the lots across the street.

They tore down 3 houses & built a garage & some yard area.

We had a great time walking down memory lane with Hubby tonight.

 

 

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