Our backyard has been long neglected. Definitely for longer than we’ve lived here, so I don’t feel totally guilty about how it looks. More on that in a later post. My dad surprised me this weekend by cleaning out some recurring vegetation and found a couple of “treasures.” The first is a poured concrete […]
Bathroom vent cover makeover
The cast iron vent cover in our bathroom had about ten layers of crusty, dusty, grimy paint on it. You could barely see the grooved detail around the border of the vent. My dad stripped the paint off all of it revealing a patent date of 1906! Then I repainted it: the middle with black glossy […]