I had excessive hopes that I’d get the massive studio wall fully completed yesterday, however I ended up having a kind of irritating days with one fail after one other.
First, keep in mind the massive, colourful calendar that I held on this wall in the beginning of the week?
As of this morning, all however one of many months had fallen off of the wall. Evidently, I obtained maintain of a foul batch of 3M double sided sticky foam squares, and so they failed. September remains to be hanging on, however that’s the one one.
I purchased new image hanging strips to strive once more, however I simply didn’t have sufficient time to get it finished yesterday. It’ll be a straightforward venture to do once more, however I used to be just a bit bit pissed off {that a} venture I had crossed off of my “to do” listing must be finished once more.
I had deliberate to make cabinets similar to the breakfast room image ledges to go beneath the TV. These are really easy to make, and you may customise them to any measurement you want. Right here’s a have a look at the breakfast room cabinets…
However once I was in Lowe’s the opposite day buying the issues I wanted for my new shoe closet, I noticed these cabinets on clearance for simply over $12 every. They’re not fairly as vast as I needed them to be (these are 30 inches vast, and I needed 36), however I used to be joyful that they’d save me a lot time, and I don’t assume I might make them for $12 every with the price of lumber lately.
Two of them had been very simple to put in. However there all the time must be a tough one, proper? And this center one was the issue. For some cause, I couldn’t get the drywall anchor to enter the wall on this facet. No downside. I made a decision to simply use my nail gun with 2-inch 16-gauge nails and nail this facet instantly into the stud. However the very first nail didn’t go in. It simply crumpled up on the face of the shelf board.
I don’t know why it did that. Possibly it hit a drywall screw. Nevertheless it’s only one extra minor inconvenience I’ve to repair.
Subsequent up, I labored on constructing the body for the TV. I needed this body to be a lot less complicated in design than the opposite ones I’ve constructed. The one I made for the breakfast room is absolutely thick. I really like the way it appears to be like with the cabinets. However for this wall within the studio, I needed the face of the body to be a lot thinner.
I had a quite simple design in thoughts, and thought I might get the fundamental construct finished in about 40 minutes. And I used to be proper! It took about 40 minutes to chop the 4 items for the perimeters and glue/nail these collectively, after which minimize the 4 face items and nail these in place.
The issue? I obtained the measurements flawed. It appears to be like means too huge on the TV, so I have to take it aside, minimize the items down, and put it collectively once more.
By this time, my mind was fairly frazzled. I used to be very excited for the distraction when my new clock was delivered. However once I opened it up, I couldn’t work out the way it was supposed to hold on the wall. 😀 It was simply my frame of mind yesterday. I checked out it once more this morning, and I very clearly noticed a gap that goes over a nail or screw within the wall. I believe my pissed off and frazzled mind yesterday simply couldn’t deal with that little gap on the again of the clock mechanism.
However anyway, that is the clock I ended up buying for this wall (affiliate hyperlink). I actually preferred the value ($45) and the scale (24 inches), however I additionally obtained this one as a result of I believed it will be very simple to customise.
I’m unsure what I plan to do with it simply but, however I do know for certain that it gained’t keep brown. 🙂 I could paint it a enjoyable coloration, or I could resolve to do one thing extra inventive. I’ll have to attend and see what inspiration hits me.
In order that was my day yesterday. Not solely did I not get the wall completed, however I really feel like I went backwards.
Thankfully, I don’t have any plans for the subsequent two days, so I plan to deal with this and hopefully get it finished by the top of the day tomorrow. Then I can deal with the workplace/desk nook of the room and get these initiatives finished.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and embellish the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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