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Sunday, August 24, 2008

Cat Chaise  

Posted by Jim at 1:04 PM  [#]

DSC_0781We've been wanting to get some patio furniture for a while, but the sticker shock was giving us pause. We finally mail-ordered some.

Of course, it came in some enormous cardboard boxes, which provided us with plenty of construction material for a project that we've been wanting to do since we saw it here.

DSC_0751The rationale here is that cats like anything cardboard, so what better material to use for luxury cat furniture? The Kid started sitting on it before we even got started. 

 

Here's the base, with some additional bracing underneath. The Kid has gained more than a few pounds since her refugee days, so she needs something sturdy.
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The dogs had to get in on the action as well. This is the top, also cut from one big piece of cardboard.
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She loves it! She's hardly left the chaise since we set it up in the living room. It's a little bigger than it needs to be - I guess we overestimated The Kid's size when we laid out the design. And that's saying something.
The Kid's favorite old bath mat just happens to fit in there.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Project Tracklight  

Posted by Jim at 5:35 PM  [#]
Wherein Jim, his judgement clouded by the challenge and excitement of  a home-improvement project, decides to work in an attic. In Alabama. In July.
Katrin and I were sitting in our living room lamenting the lack of light, when Katrin says, "Track lights would look good in here."
"Why yes," I reply, "they would." So I go get some stuff.
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Now if you're going to crawl around in an attic in July, you might as well go for the three-way switches, right? The first one replaces a switch by the front door, which used to control the outlet below it (now the outlet is always on.) We never got around to getting a floor lamp for that outlet, maybe because I don't think of floor lamps as home improvement (they can be installed without tools.)
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The second switch goes next to the existing living room light in a new box.
I didn't want to lie face down in the insulation while feeding the wire through this hole:
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So I broke out the cordless jig saw and made myself some space.
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Light! I got over the "insulation itchies" within a couple of days, and now Katrin won't go blind reading* in the living room. DSC_0718
* "Reading" often consists of sleeping in the recliner with a copy of JAVMA and one or the other of our pets.

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Saturday, October 06, 2007

Home Office  

Posted by Jim at 5:20 PM  [#]

Now that I'm done with Project Table:

In Progress

I can finish the house picture series with one of the newly rearranged home office:

Not much is going on here in Auburn. Kartrin has been surgerizing and studying statistics, and I'm slowing taking care of projects around the house, when I'm not working. I did a little touch-up painting today.

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