Home Improvement

My Dad is a self-taught do-it-yourselfer. He gave me a book when I got married, one that's pages are yellowed, the cover is spotted from use and when you open it, it gives off an ol' musty smell. Dad used this book in his home and now I'm using it in ours. Growing up, my Dad did all kinds of remodeling projects by himself- from building us play houses to adding walls, to siding an entire Victorian home.


He tackled big projects head on and taught me a thing or two about home improvement along the way. Now, as I look around my home, there are little things, here and there, that I'd like to take care of. Things like. . . well let me show you. .

a storm door whose hinges have busted out of the wood frame (I won't tell you when)



Or replacing our front door- because I don't know how to fix the warped plastic frames around the windows (because of the hot, afternoon North Carolina sun trapped between the broken glass storm door(see above) and the dark, front door)



What I'm most excited about doing right now is putting trim around our windows. Our windows have a bottom ledge to them, but the molding around the windows is absent.




See how sad they look? I know I could fix them up nice and pretty with some mistreatments, but I'm more comfortable with putting up molding than selecting a pattern/color combination of curtains. Is anyone else like that?

Anyway, I know it's doable and I'm excited about getting started. The Remodeling Guy posted on The Nesters website and his post came at a perfect time. Between my Dad and The Remodeling Guy, these windows are going to get trimmed up and looking shnazzy and you will definitely see another post about the finished product.