Effectively, y’all, I had a really irritating day yesterday, and didn’t get practically as a lot executed on the house health club as I had deliberate. I dropped my exterior exhausting drive that holds all of my footage from all of my 16 years of running a blog, after which it wouldn’t work. I believed it was being backed up on Carbonite, however once I went into my Carbonite account and chosen that drive, nothing was there. NOTHING!! So I spent a ridiculous period of time yesterday desperately looking for somebody who might get my footage off of that onerous drive. Actually nobody in Waco can do this, so it needed to be despatched off to Austin, the place they’ll should placed on their little Tyvek bunny fits and take my exhausting drive right into a clear room, very rigorously disassemble it, and see what data (if any) they will salvage, all for the discount value of $1900.
I used to be completely sick about it. That’s 16 years of running a blog pictures and movies, from the condominium to our home, and each venture and room that I’ve ever executed. To say that that put a damper on your entire remainder of my day could be an understatement. I used to be so unhappy, and depressed, and pissed off, and indignant (at myself for not checking my Carbonite regularly to make certain the whole lot was truly being backed up correctly!), and felt so unmotivated to work on something. I simply wished to take a seat in mattress and cry and eat ice cream.
However I didn’t. After pouting and sulking for some time, I lastly did make myself rise up and do one thing. Something. Sulking and pouting wouldn’t repair my exhausting drive, so I made myself refocus.
What I made a decision to do was assemble our new Swedish ladder. I had initially supposed to make a Swedish ladder from scratch, however then I made a decision that I might reasonably save time and buy a ready-to-assemble Swedish ladder that I do know is nicely made and really sturdy. So I bought this one from The Beam Store. It was quite simple to assemble. However putting in it on the wall is likely to be a special story.
This factor could be very nicely made, and I like that it has 1.5-inch dowels. These will probably be very robust. I don’t love the colour, although. As I’ve talked about earlier than, I need to create a cohesive look all through this room by utilizing black and walnut all through the room. That’s been my plan for some time now, and it’s why I purchased a black and walnut WaterRower. You possibly can see it sitting on the previous foam ground within the photograph beneath.
And that plan can also be why I selected walnut-colored shades and black flooring.
So these light-colored dowels don’t actually minimize it for me.
That’s an issue that may be simply solved with some sanding or stripping (they’re clear coated), a coat of stain, and a brand new clear coat.
I additionally intend to offer the WalMart dresser somewhat makeover. Proper now, it’s simply strong black, which is okay, however not nice. And I’ve additionally determined that it’s a bit too quick, so I will probably be including legs to it. I’ve yet one more piece of 1″ x 2″ walnut lumber from the toilet rework, so I’ll use that lengthy the bottom, add some walnut toes, after which perform a little one thing with the drawer fronts.
After which I purchased these pulls to make use of on the drawers. I found them in this Etsy store.
After which I’ve two lengthy partitions within the entrance to this room which might be simply begging for some art work.
I’ve to confess that I often don’t like phrase artwork. I do know I’ve some in our breakfast room (sitting room), however that’s type of totally different because it’s all colorful and glittery and awesome. However common non-colorful, non-glittery, and non-awesome phrase artwork/decor typically doesn’t attraction to me in any respect.
However in my thoughts, motivational phrase artwork posters go completely with a house health club. Don’t you suppose? I’ve been looking on Etsy to search out one thing that I like, and up to now, this series from Etsy is my favorite.
The colours aren’t precisely proper, however since they’re downloadable/printable wall artwork, I feel I can edit the colours to work higher for the room. However whatever the collection I lastly select, I plan to border them in walnut and black. I need to body them like I did the unique art work that I did years in the past for our breakfast room…
…in order that there’s a really skinny black body across the art work, after which a thicker body on the surface. However the place I used white on these work, I’ll use walnut on those for the house health club partitions.
In order that’s the plan, and hopefully it’ll all look cohesive as soon as it’s completed. I do know some individuals are in all probability considering, “That is only a dwelling health club! Why go to all of this hassle?” Effectively, the apparent reply is within the title of my weblog. 😀 But additionally, it’s a room in our dwelling, and I would like it to look good, identical to every other room. I hope to spend a great deal of time in right here, and I should be motivated to return in right here and keep in right here some time. I’d by no means be motivated to spend a lot time in a room that didn’t look fairly and really feel inviting to me. Strictly utilitarian rooms don’t inspire me in any respect.
Anyway, hopefully I can get extra completed immediately. No extra sulking or pouting allowed.
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