Sorted

It’s no good. Despite his little lifetime of anti-gun messages, our refusal to buy him a toy gun, and my blatant sneers at anything to do with ammunition, the military, rifles, even BB guns, Munchkin announced the other day: “I’m going to be an army when I grow up.” Not just a soldier, mind you, a whole [...]

Daft cow

I am, really. There’s no hiding from the fact. Hours were spent preparing the new pine door for the bathroom – hours, admittedly, in which my DIY guru/mentor/saviour Ms Fix-It did most of the work, but hours nonetheless. We/she held the new door up against the old one, measured, drew little pencil lines, used something [...]

IKEA we love/hate you

I deserve a slap on the wrists. A hundred lines. Three of the belt. (Hands up who got the belt at school? Me, but only once.) Ms Fix-It assigned me minimal homework. It was my job to chisel out an indentation in a door so that we could attach a hinge. A new door. A lovely [...]

The big reveal

Done. In what must surely qualify as the longest DIY project in history, the tin ceiling has gone from this ……           ………………to this. Yes, for five long years, and several months, we lived with that white expanse of ceiling, the ugly recessed lights, and the gap above the cabinets. Now, [...]

Hammering like a girl

I’m rubbish at hammering nails in, even tiny ones, like those needed to attach molding to wood around the top of our kitchen wall. Which is why I can’t do any reveals of the kitchen… just yet. Too many bent nails and stuck-out nails and caulk globbed over to try and cover up the bent [...]