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1958 Ranch Home, Full of Character - First Home, First Major Project

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Charming Central California Ranch Home

I've been lurking the site for quite a while. Recently registered to ask a few electrical code questions, and to try to answer a few myself (with mixed success). I've been enthralled reading Coco's story in BC - now up to page 40 - and decided I might like to start showcasing my own project.

I'm a California native, though not to the small Central Valley community where I now own. I was born in the San Francisco Bay Area, I've lived on a 36' Kris Kraft on the coast, moved around the Wine Country, survived in Reno, came back to the Sierra Nevada foothills, and then moved off to college in the Bay Area about 10 years ago. I had come full circle.

In 2009, I got married to my girlfriend of 5 years for all the wrong reasons and moved to Oregon to be closer to my wife's family. Much too close. I found myself shortly in North Carolina, staying with a friend. I must say that I'm not very fond of the weather in the Southeast, or the food of the South. Go figure.

I enlisted, was rushed off to Texas, then Mississippi, and by chance was stationed back in the Central Valley of California. It feels good to be home, less than 2 hours from every place I mentioned living when I grew up... though all in different directions.

While I was in North Carolina, I fell in love. I've since dragged her all the way back across the country. We both joke that we've driven the 3,000 mile moving trip for each other. It's been a couple of years now for both of us, and we're ready to give marriage another shot. Wish us luck!

One last thing before we start on the house: when I was growing up, always moving between apartments, rental homes, boats, RVs, campers, etc I set the goal of owning my first home by 25. I'm glad to say that I made it, but just barely, by about seven weeks. :cool:
 
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As predicted, lost most of the day again. Several hours scouring Kohl's paid off. We ordered her $39.98 worth of work pants from the in-store kiosk. They were "marked down" from $36/pair. We all know nothing's marked *down* at Kohl's until it hits the clearance racks. But it was the best we could do since they never seem to be able to keep short sizes available in anything under $35/pair. Also picked her up 3 tees, one button up, one additional pair of work pants, a tee for me and a button up. All clearance, except the pants. $52 after tax IIRC. Cashier was nice enough to scan a $10 off because I showed my military ID with my charge card. Works for me!

Swung by Lowe's to pick up some more hardware. Twelve 8x3/4 wood screws to reattach the keyboard tray that fell off the desk this morning, and to assemble the wife's. Ten 8-32x3/4 machine screws to hold my car's passenger mirror on (also fell off today) and assemble our mail organizer. Also priced metal gutters at about $10/10ft, plus $6/corner, $1.50/cap, $8/spout hole, $12/10ft downspout. With it being a ranch-style home, the all-hips-and-no-gables looks like it's going to cost a lot more because I have to install gutters both sides as well. :censored:

Picked up some eggplants and Parmesan on the way home, so I'm *hoping* that means Eggplant Parm tonight. :thumbsup:
 
#48 ·
Yesterday went to hell in a handbasket. The bolt I put into the car mirror was the perfect length and even though the head was slightly larger, it still fit fine. The hole was pretty obviously metric size once, and it was very tough getting it through the last 1/8" of plastic. After thoroughly stripping out one bolt head, I got it worked out, and installed a fresh one. The bolt wasn't what pissed me off... it was the neighborhood kids still riding their bikes, scooters, etc. within inches of me down the sidewalk with the car door open. Scared me pretty good thinking one of them could get hurt.

Also noticed after remounting the computer desk keyboard trays that there's an air gap because the thread on the screws I bought stop 1/8" short of the head. Picking up a new set of screws or some plastic bushing to take up the slack today.

Drive 30 minutes into town to buy that 11 gallons of paint yesterday as well. I don't know how it happens, but the paint store was out of paint. They're supposed to get a shipment this afternoon, mix it up, and call me. But by the time the shipment arrives, I'll be asleep before work. Hopefully somebody else can pick it up for me. They did have five 1-gallon cans, but refused to sell me them at the 5-gallon price. Wouldn't let me pre-pay either. -.- Fine, while I was in town, I decided to pick up some free Blockbuster Express titles with promo codes found on Slickdeals.

Bought a second low-voltage bracket, this time the plastic type with wings. Same size. Why is a bracket made for a larger drywall hole than a box?

Spent 30 minutes with a can of raid Raid and an electric flyswatter killing a wasp nest in one of my eves. PHO thought it would look better to sheet them closed with some sort of composite board, so it's very difficult to get to it. Had to rely on spraying into the entrance crevices, running away for a minute, then coming back to finish them off once the defenders hit the ground.

Also spent copious amounts of time looking through the Belgard online catalog, as well as the websites of Basalite and Calstone. We definitely like a certain style pavers (Belgard: "Holland", Basalite: "Mission", Calstone: "Mission", Oldcastle: "Holland"), but would flex a bit for sales. So far, herringbone is winning out in the 4x8 size, with a soldier course. I like the 45º, but think my low skill level will probably call for 90º.

Tried to go 3D in AutoCAD. Having trouble with PUSHPULL freezing when it tries to detect the plane I'm wanting. It's odd, because it seems to be the same action as hatching, but that never crashes it. Is especially doesn't like calculating a plane that contains a hatch. I'll try again, but last night it was crashing so often it wasn't worth even trying.
 
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Been working on the 3d modeling in AutoCAD. Apparently I had the viewpoint so that one or more of the axises was severely skewed, which caused the plane detection to go all sorts of wonky trying to determine boundaries far off-square. It all just happened to look proper from the viewpoint that I was working in, so I've resolved to watching 4-5 viewports while I draw: 3D NE, NW, SE, SW Isometrics and 2D Top. I find I draw in the NW Iso most often.

The grading was easy, as was most of the concrete pours once I got the hang of it. Much less freezing once I killed every hatch in the drawing.

I apologize for the renders not being that high detail. I haven't yet downloaded the "Medium Material Image Library" or some such, so they're low-resolution textures applied. Good enough, perhaps, considering the last one took 4 minutes to render. :eek:



Here you can see an early version of the property grading and fencing. North is approximately up. Note the hole indicating no crawlspace grading yet.



By this point, I'd added both the house footing and the garage slab. I mistakenly modeled the outside of the exterior walls to be flush with the outer-most portion of footing wall. I ended up with a foundation that was 3¼" too short on every side and wasn't lining up with the sill plate. I quickly learned that while I knew what I wanted to do in AutoCAD, I just didn't have the skill to dissect merged 3D models and expand individual sides without scaling the entire object. Ended up starting over, this time building from the sill plate down.

Once that was done, the sill plates, rim joists, stringers, and pier blocks lined up pretty darn well. And all matched the floorplan. Thank god.



You might be able to notice in this short that the garage's sill plate doesn't physically touch any wood on the house footing. I found this to be the case when I had to open a small area for an electrical outlet right there. So far, so good.



This was my first attempt at a live section. Everything you see here was generated from a plane I drew across the house. It's much more detailed as a wireframe, so I was a bit disappointed with the render. Note the grading under the house is now 3¼" short on all sides because of the footing expansion I had to do. It was corrected after I saved this shot.
 
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It was at this time that I noticed just how much the wife's camera phone blew mine away. Even being released in 2009, the 3GS had a pathetically underpowered camera. At least it was a step up from the camera in my 3G, and a free upgrade without contract. Thank you, Apple Care. But her Galaxy S utterly destroys mine. Unfortunately, the forum uploader crashes every time I try to upload one of hers. Allow me to attempt to use ImageShack...



This was taken last night as a test shot. You can definitely see that my camera never captured the wood properly.



This was taken just after a fresh wash with Murphy's. It turned out to be a very dirty bucket afterwards. :laughing:



The cabinetry all got a fresh coat of orange revitalizing oil. I wish I had gotten a before picture. It's night and day.



The living room finally got its second coat after I picked up the (hopefully last) 11 gallons of Duration. This is "Impressive Ivory", I believe, with a slight off-white on the baseboards. You can see the contrast between it and the other baseboard's dingy color. I suspect that they were just left in their primed state. Or maybe they were just so talented with paint that I can't discern a single brush mark on any of the baseboards. :rolleyes:



And here's a break we found in the sprinkler line. It was causing a slow drip to hold moisture against the house. It never dried out, being in the shadows of the patio overhang. It was replaced, but I haven't taken an after-picture yet. Not until I'm positive it's holding.

Wow. Massive size. I'll try to re-upload at 640x480 later. :)

Edit: Resized!
 
#51 ·
When you upload to imageshack or other image sites; you can have them resize down to 800 X 600 or 640 X 480... looks nicer. I'm on a 25 in widescreen and the pics are pretty big....

I like your renders; i use google sketchup for my stuff and I'm slowly getting better. Nothing like yours though...

Seems to be coming along well.
 
#52 ·
I'll definitely be resizing them later. On other forums I have typically used the {img width=x}URL{/img} method, but it seems to be disabled here. The shorthand {img WxH}URL{/img} seems to be disabled as well.

Right now I'm behind a firewall that filters imageshack, so I can't re-upload them. Perhaps tomorrow.

Thanks for letting me know! :)
 
#53 ·
What a morning! I was a bit irritated after having to stay almost 2 hours late at work, but when I came home to this gem, my spirits perked up quite a bit. I had the following letter waiting for me in my mailbox.

Whistler
<My Street Address>
<My City>, CA

Whisler,

On behalf of all of our neighbors; please stop the loud whistles and chirping.

Municipal code #.#.# - Prohibited Noises

'The following acts, among others, are declared to be loud, disturbing and unnecessary noises in violation of this chapter, but said enumeration shall not be deemed to be exclusive:

D. Yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling, or singing on the public streets, particularly between the hours of eleven p.m. to seven a.m. or at any time or place so as to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort, or repose of persons in any office, or in dwelling, hotel or other type of residence or any persons in the vicinity'

Law enforcement has not been asked to assist yet.

Thank you,

Resident
<My City>, CA
I got quite the laugh out of that. Yes, the bolded sections were bolded in the letter too.

:whistling2:

Woops, forgot that I'm not allowed to do that. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
 
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To be clear, I find it funny not only because of the ridiculousness of the letter's body, but the other statements it gave. It was mailed, quite purposely, from another zip code. It's completely anonymous. It quotes municipal codes. And it's from one of two neighbors who have never introduced themselves, and live less than 100 feet away.

If somebody came to my door with a complaint, I'd understand completely. Hey, we're all human. Approaching me nicely in person with a concern would show a great deal of decency. I'd respond by doing most everything in my power to make sure it was taken care of.

This, on the other hand, shows a lack of testicles (or... ovaries?). I'm not exactly an unapproachable person. It makes me want to get up extra early tomorrow and whistle every song I can think of until my face hurts, less than one foot from the property line. :laughing:

It's certainly not from either of the immediate neighbors. To the southwest, the nearest house is vacant and for sale. The next house further down is a rental with noisy children that love to crank up music. To the northeast, the nearest has four kids and a dog that loves to bark in the middle of the night. One house further up is, again, vacant and for sale. I seriously doubt anybody across the street can hear me whistling from my back yard. Plus, I've spoken with all of them, and we're on a first-name basis. That leaves only two occupied houses - the two whose back yards abut mine.

I don't plan to do anything different until they grow some cojones and come speak to me.
 
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Not a very busy day, I must admit. I came home this morning to the laundry room getting a good one over. The first coat of paint is on, and that's no small feat considering it was done without removing the washer or dryer, and everything visible behind the water heater is done!

Unfortunately, I didn't get to prep the living bejebus out of it like I'd hoped to before its first coat. There are random receptacles in the ceiling. The odd gas line T's off the water heater, lies against the wall as it goes over the door, drops back down, and then hangs next to the dryer. Yeah, I bought an electric after all. It's circuit conduit is just about as horrid. There's a switch that we have no idea what it goes to. Ironically, there wasn't any lighting in there until I installed a 12" Alabaster and white enamel flush mount fixture. All of the plates are oversize, and you can still see the holes behind them. It's going to be a work in progress... I'm halfway resigned to the idea of a laundry room being the one room that's allowed to look bad. Trying to fight that urge to just let it go.

Only got a few hours of sleep before the wife awoke to the UPS guy at the door. She was bouncing up and down on the bed with our new bedding set. Not much choice but to get up and help her make it. Bet you can guess what happened next... I couldn't fall back asleep. Seems to be a pattern.



Anyway, this is how it looks. It came with a 2" tear at the bottom stitching of the comforter. Not impressed with that for $160+, but otherwise loving it. I'll call Kohl's tomorrow and see what we can do, short of shipping the whole set back. Sooooo cozy. I'm sure she'll want to use my Amazon gift cards to get the 20x20 Euro Square shams filled, as well as the 2nd set of King pillows. We currently have 2 King and 2 Standard, with the pillow cases folded over. I guess that's better than it rotting in my wallet. Though I'd kind of wanted some a cheapo multi-tool and a cheapo miter saw. *shrug*

Looked at the finances today and decided that I absolutely will not be buying any more materials until I finish the projects I have going. Unless of course I absolutely need them to complete that project. :rolleyes: That should give me a little time to build the nest egg back up.
 
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Managed to make some progress on the junkiness of the storage area in the back yard. Noticed that a "FREE" sign had been added to my pair of boxsprings I'd been on the fence about donating, so I took it a step further and posted it on Craigslist in the free section. Zero bites, I'm floored.

On the other hand, I also posted on the flagstone the wife pulled out of the path. And some other masonry we had pulled up when we moved in to alleviate a drainage issue in front (along with other remedy steps).

This is what I posted:

One 4' x 5' x 1' pile of flagstone. Various sizes from 3"x4" to 18"x30".

Nine 12"x12"x3" masonry blocks.

One 1'x2'x1' pile of concrete pavers shaped and painted to look like petrified wood from the factory.

Twenty five 2' brick border blocks. 5" tall?

If you see this listing, it's still available. In <city>. You load. Bring a wheelbarrow or helper if you need one. Email, text or call _______ for address.

Thanks for viewing.


One response in 30 minutes said they're leaving their house for here immediately. Before they arrived, I had at least 5 more contacts. Thankfully, they took it all. I'm left with one half of a brick and one work glove. Wish they would have taken the box springs too. Boy, that 3/4 ton was sagging something awful.

I felt bad because they arrive just after dusk. I have no lighting on that side of the house. I popped up a LiON Rigid area light, but it died quickly on all of my uncharged batteries. :whistling2: Ended up having to set up two of the flashlights that came with my Mikita set. Not quite the same.

They were also older. And much larger. And very sweaty. While I leaned against my oak and sipped my lemonade. :rolleyes:
 
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As a last note, I did manage to get a fair bit done on the drawing today as well. The digital 2x8 tongue-and-groove subfloor is laid, the four main exterior walls are framed and up, the second top plate is installed, and several windows were framed out. I managed to get a couple of the windows in, but I'm still missing 3 of them. Added a couple pockets for the interior walls, but again not many. The transition between the original home and garage is what's hanging me up, but I think I've found a solution. I'll sleep on it, then see where that goes.

Here's a sneak-peak. Didn't want to wait for a render, so you get a sketchy wireframe with the grading turned off.
 

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Had the house to myself today. That usually means it's the perfect opportunity to do something that involves shutting off the electricity. And that's exactly what happened.

Keeping only the A/C and the new circuit I added hot, I set about to figure out what was going on with the fridge. I recently replaced the counter receptacle with a GFCI. The fridge's receptacle is on the load side of it, and the fridge kept tripping the GFCI after random intervals (2-30 minutes). Made for some very soft ice cream.

Hauled the fridge out, climbed behind, didn't see anything wrong with the receptacle. It was backstabbed, so I suspected that was an issue. Couldn't find my backstab tool, so I shoved a small screw driver tip inside and twisted until it split. Much easier than busting it up using lineman pliers. New tamper-resistant decorator receptacle installed. No problems, yet.

Was able to remove the extension cord going to the GFCI on the opposite counter. I'm sure the wife will be happy to see it's gone. She wasn't digging the neon orange accents. ;)

Also installed a new kitchen light box. Yeah, I never did get around to putting one back in the wall til now. Wired it all back up, with a replacement switch. No more "popping", and now the kitchen light can be shut off. She'll probably be happy about that too.

Removed the switch box that I had used temporarily to mount the cable to. Slightly enlarged the hole, popped in a metal low-voltage bracket, and put it all back together. I'd have preferred the plastic old work kind, but the little wings wouldn't unfold on one corner without taking a massive piece out of a brace.

Had to go into town for a work meeting. Turns out they booked a room that holds 80 people, and closer to 500 showed up. Parking was a nightmare. And then they cancelled it. Ugh. Picked up a couple cases of groceries on the dirt cheap while I was out... Hamburger Helper and Snack Packs for weeks! At $0.60 a box and 7.1 cents a pudding cup, I couldn't pass em up.

Putting my feet up while I frame out some more windows and doors on the model. Sometimes it feels like I could do it in person faster than I can work with these 3D objects.

Night shift gets their pick of tasks: replace old receptacle in bathroom with GFCI, cook dinner, do the dishes, paint the laundry room, or mop 1100 ft of hardwoods. :(
 
#60 ·
Made a little progress tonight. Washed dishes, cooked two night's worth of dinner and tupperware'd them. Did some recycling. Unloaded the car.

Managed to finish "laying out" the original house's exterior walls. All windows and the front door are roughed in. Adjusted header height to 80" on windows, 82.75" on doors, added 1" on left and right side of door rough-in. Framed out and roughed in both bedroom closets and doors. Laid out all remaining bottom plates, top plates, and cap plates.

Too tired again for a proper render to load. Hope this screenshot helps.
 

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Was waiting for a package this morning, so I didn't want to get working on the back yard. Ended up doing more drawing work. Of course, the package never came. :censored:

This is how far I got. All doors, windows, closets are now fully framed. The garage has been framed out as well. All openings are roughed in.

I had to assume that the garage wall where the door used to be was stick framed back and the door header removed. I'll be opening that wall sometime within the year, so we'll see what I actually find there when that time comes.
 

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Not much to say on the home front in the last couple of days. Been conducting plenty of research on cement paver distributors, prices, manufacturers, pattens, etc.

Tossing around layouts in my head. Specifically, trying to determine exactly what we want and how to accomplish it in phases without the whole place looking like hell in the meantime. This project will likely start in the spring. Once we get something closer to finalized, I'll add it to the drawings.

Been working on my broken down car. Think I ruled out a leak at the manifold gasket this morning, but couldn't find my compression tester after much digging. Now that I've found it, I'll probably knock that out in the morning and see if I can't get the rest of the exterior paint thrown on by Tuesday afternoon.

(Over 5,000 views... WOW!)
 
#63 ·
Slow goings, yet again.

Yesterday was eaten up by my daytime sleep schedule. And then transitioning back to a nighttime sleep schedule. I lose about half a day each time, but end up remarkably well rested. I would stay on a daytime sleep schedule all the time, but then I'd never see the wife and I wouldn't be able to do much work on the house while everybody's sleeping.

This morning was eaten up by a meeting at work (which started late, ran late and ended late), a trip to update vaccinations (which took almost no time at all) and a trip to the grocery store (which took forever).
 
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But I did manage to get some things done!

Just changed out two light switches that were "popping", as it were. One in the master bedroom, one in the bathroom. Also replaced the receptacle in the bathroom with a GFCI. Turns out that the hallway light and kitchen light are downstream on that circuit. :eek: WTF? Another can of worms opened...

Only one thing to do... cover it with a louver nightlight.



Also removed and capped the light switch in the laundry room that controls... seemingly nothing. It was hot, though, and I didn't feel right keeping the plate off. Still threw away the beat up switch, though.



Here's a lovely receptacle that I found. I have no idea why this could even be here. Yet, it's live, and it seems to work just fine. The back is accessible from the attic (and only about 3' from the access hatch), so this may very well become a junction box from above and be patched over.



And here's the paint situation that I've got to deal with. Dingy moulding, gas line running around the trim of the door, mismatched switches with oversize holes and covers, random receptacles mid-way up the wall, and the dryer circuit in conduit. I plan to work on all of it.

We're just now getting to painting some of the door frame moulding. Waiting for it to dry so I can remove the tape.

More this coming weekend, I hope. :(
 

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Little progress again today. Was only able to work a few hours. Off to bed right after this! Hopefully this coming weekend is a fair bit more kind.

I awoke to the kitchen being shuffled around. Sure enough, the fridge was pulled out, the stone was pulled out, and the paint was in the tray. We knocked out the rear and right-hand walls of the galley in about 4 hours, giving it all two coats and cutting in all of the cabinets. I'll be re-painting when I (some day) get the time and money to re-do the cabinetry.

In the process, I found 2 more outlets behind the cabinets, staggered between the two I could see. However, these are 24" or so off the floor, so they create a zig-zag wit the ones I knew about as they go down the wall. Since they're all covered by the cabinetry, I didn't bother changing the receptacles to the new decorator ones.

A little time later, here's what came of it:



Not too shabby. It really brightens the place up. Pay no mind to the sheet vinyl. :(

The other half of the day was spent going through all of the messes in the office. There's still quite a bit that needs to be reorganized, but there's now a large box ready for donation. It's got all sorts of old toys, games, electronic goodies, cables, cords, and a nice assortment of now-ancient PC pieces.

In the process, I realized that the closet doors weren't sized too large for the opening. They'd just popped out of the bottom track.

Voila, doors that can close now.



It sound silly, I know, but they really looked like they were 2" too wide. They obviously still need adjustment, but I can get to that another day.

Here's to another day. :thumbup:
 
#69 ·
Looking good on that thread. :)

Well, the weekend's here! Unfortunately I had to get some sleep this morning, so I missed out on the cooler part of the daytime. I had wanted to throw some exterior paint on, but with temperatures pushing near 100ºF today, the North side of the house will have to wait. I'll just have to find little things indoors to keep me busy this afternoon.

What to do, what to do... ;)
 
#70 ·
Not all that much that I could get done today, having lost the morning and the temperature being so high outside.

I was looking at the doors. Many have a decent wood pattern and build quality, so I figured I might be able to clean them up and re-oil them. They cleaned up just fine with my wood floor cleaner, but really soaked it up. The end grain is definitely in need of some love. Unfortunately, I found that I had only enough oil left for 1 door. I suppose the rest got used on the cabinetry. Boo. Cleaned up this one, and will have a go at the others tomorrow. Maybe.

I had been waiting to get new door hardware until I decided if they needed to be replaced or not. I've since decided that I have other projects that I'd prefer to give precedence to.
 

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A little back story, before we begin...

When we moved in, only two windows has any sort of coverings. The dining area and kitchen windows both had white faux wood Levolor blinds in very good condition. We made sure to get matching blinds for the rest of the house, as they're not exactly cheap.

I did really want the rich, dark Walnut or even the Honey Pine faux wood blinds, but they came at a premium, and would require that I replace the two that were already here. The numbers just didn't work out. These are 2" plantation-style blinds, and they work very well to blend in on a traditional Ranch home.

At the big box, they come in some odd sizes. It has something to do with new window sizes, putting undersized vinyl windows in older rough-ins, and some other factors that I don't fully understand. The sales person told me that width accounted for over 75% of the price, and an additional foot or two in length was only a dollar or two more. It's pretty accurate. I gave the widths, she cut the shortest blinds that could be cut to that width, and we were off with a cart of heavy boxes and copious amounts of resin shavings.

Over the course of that following week, I started shortening the blinds that I'd just installed. The largest was the living room window, which is a 6-0 by 5-0 (IIRC) window, but we cut from a 74x82.5 stock. Needless to say, the shortening removed a LOT of weight. I probably pulled 15 lbs of slats off that window alone. These are definitely not lightweight like aluminum or similar thin plastic blinds.

The office was 3-9 by 3-0, but all of the rest were 3-0 by 3-0. The office and guest bedroom were done the first week. And then I never got around to our bedroom, so we've had blinds that were about 58" long for the past few months...
 
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You can see here that there was no shortage of slats. Why Lowe's has to carry a 37" AND 37.5" width in a 58"(ish) length, I have no idea. But that's the shortest that my store carried that would fit on a 3' window opening. I can't imagine such a window size being at all common.

Notice how long the lift cords are when the slats were resting on the sill.



This is how far they extend when allowed to lower fully. There's certainly no need for this sort of length in this application. The lift cords are at about the right height here.



And this is what they look like trimmed. I considered leaving an extra slat, but like the way the others in the house looked. The lift cords are in a reasonable position now.

(After I snapped the photo, I noticed that the 2nd slats where we have been tucking a blanket so I can sleep during the daytime bent the slats slightly. I removed that slat, replaced it, and then noticed that it was extremely easy to coax it back to its normal shape. Oh well.)



I did the one behind the headboard, too. I told the wife she had 3 seconds to cover her face if she didn't want her picture online while under the weather. Forgive the mess on the nightstands - I left the tools laying there for the picture. :\

 
#73 ·
Also moved all of my uniforms to one location. They're hanging in the office now. It's amazing how much space was leftover after we went through all of our stuff and prepared much of it for donation.

The books are messy for now because of the planned full-wall bookshelf I plan to build into the living room. I'm exploring ideas for custom closets. At 5'10 x 22", I don't have all that many attractive options so far.

Some of the tupperware will be going away this weekend. The spare computer case was acquired as a freebie in a bundle, and will be sold for half price or less on Craigslist this weekend as well.

I hope to have the doors re-aligned this evening.
 

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Almost forgot... got about half of the documentation created for the new circuit I ran. It's in the form of an AutoCAD 2012 drawing and 8.5x11 title block, exported to PDF for easy viewing here.

This diagram shows what to expect inside each junction box and switch box in the circuit. It probably doesn't make a terrible amount of sense without the floorplan or showing the full paths, but that will be in the next document. This is in case, years later, I have to troubleshoot.

Of course, it's 8kb too large for this forum, so... I've hosted it on MediaFire.
 
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