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d up and primped sooner rather than later as a result boy and i are wondering what the heck we re going to do with the rest of the weekends until say march because we ve knocked out a big chunk of our cold weather to do list already yippee long dog walks on the ice and movies and popcorn it is and cocktails of course speaking of here s the before photo from this deal perhaps you recall the original incarnation of the powder room tucked under the stairs with a diy shed style frameless door and now from the same perspective the fabulous new after aka the cocktail station the powder room itself remains unchanged but is now graced by a new bit of wall doing dual duty creating a little more privacy for the entrance and a surface and nook to contain the bar cabinetry and for the first time ever inside modern in mn there s an actual hinged swinging door albeit with a little tweak to fit the sloped roof because tweaking is what we do yo and since it s impossible for me to condone the wasting of space the hidden agenda way under there and now totally concealed for day to day this storage shelving was something i started last winter after our big new year s party and thus after any strong impetus to complete it had passed so much for busting a move but really it took me until about five minutes ago to figure out how i could get the whole area to come together and be functional and look great as boring as it is this is actually one of the best parts of the whole project because it s freed up a huge amount of pantry cabinet space i had been using to store off season little used but still very necessary stuff so the trick that eventually came to me is two separate sections of cabinets on wheels and as you can see from the photo above everything other than the two wall cabinets pulls out for access to the storage area behind it was tedious as heck to execute and getting all of the fixed and mobile elements just right took what seemed like ages but it ended up super functional and pretty great looking i think i used a combination of ikea s akurum stuff the blind corner cabinet and the roll front high cabinet mounted to the wall under the stairs which for the record was insane trying to hang and the besta line for the wine glassware and liquor cabinets it s got led strip and undercounter lights and an additional light on the faux wall that s attached to the corner cabinet and conceals the storage area my favorite feature being the obsessed addict that i am is the insulated recessed ice bin cheers and happy new year here s to thinking about summer projects while i enjoy a craft cocktail posted by splatgirl at 11 07 am 3 comments tuesday may 29 2012 lawn and garden check in 2012 i think i ve talked before about our desire to do some facade greening on our very sunny western exposure partly for visual interest but mostly as a way to help keep things cooler inside the house here s the kee klamp trellis i reported about last fall i m happy to report the grape vines planted there survived the winter and are growing with gusto in this very very tough spot i m still hoping to get some kind of roof bit added to that trellis one of these days farther down that west wall and going strong for a little over a year are our hops vines i chose hops these are the variety cascade and yes hops as in what is used to brew beer because they re a super hardy perennial they grow fast they play nice with building facades and look good and they die back to the ground in the fall leaving the wall clear to soak up the winter sun oh and maybe a little bit because i can use them to make beer if i become so inclined someday so i planted these as nothing but dirty sad looking little rhizomes last spring and boy gave them each a rope to grow up on they did marvelously but as with the grapes the true test of plant will is surviving our intense mn winters well survive they did here s what they looked like early this spring when we were celebrating their hardy or hearty and successful return and here s what we ve got two months later they re sending up new shoots like crazy and the longest of the vinelets are already snaking up well beyond the top of the parapet about 15 with any luck we ll have something bushy and full enough that it makes some significant shade in another year or two and big props to boy for that awesome string art trellis i teased him a little for being an overachiever when he gave me his proposal but in this case leaving him to be the boss was a total win i guess i need to adjust to the new creative gardener boy the fun part is watching his engineer brain trying to cope with the randomness of nature and gardening and learning to accept that those damn vines grow according to their rules rather than his and then i think the shed is finally final for real a bit of furniture at long last makes for a shady peaceful little spot for a cup of coffee or a glass of wine i dug those lanterns someplace out of the internet last fall they are solar and they re not bright but still pretty awesome looking at night overall i could not be more pleased with the whole package back there except for the lawn that is more on that crazy subject next time posted by splatgirl at 9 43 am 4 comments wednesday august 31 2011 modern shed the finale here s a couple more shots of the completed shed hurray i ended up taking your advice about trying the window frost spray for that big picture window it worked kind of eh it s doing the whole obscuring thing but it s kind of blotchy despite my best efforts with the rattle can oh well once it bugs me long enough i ll bite the bullet and go with the more expensive plan b which was to put frost film on it the bad news is i still haven t gotten any furniture for the porch argh i loved the alfresco lounge chair and ottoman from crate and barrel which i ordered but the chairs showed up damaged twice and i got fed up and told them they could have their cheap chinese crap back sadly i should have known because i have the alfresco patio furniture and i had to exchange the dining chairs multiple times to get five that weren t defective bent or otherwise damaged but the real bummer is i can t find anything else i like that would be functional and comfortable for a reasonable price here is basically my dream chair for that darn porch only in my dream there are two of them plus some kind of table ottoman thingie and that is not a dream i can afford to make into reality at least not this year maybe i ll save my pennies over the winter though gotta love the awesomeness that is etsy artisans though right and i definitely need one of these i just can t decide too much made in mn awesomeness oh and did i tell you about that lovely dirt patch by the porch corner i know the lush lovely lawn is distracting i m working on making that go mostly away fwiw but if you noticed that little pile of rubble there at the corner it s the remnants of our former firepit which got relocated about ten feet farther north because nature always gets the last laugh that firepit i figured was no big deal to interfere with because i could just rake it up and throw some grass seed there is actually a giant hardened wad of fired clay because clay and fire pottery doh one of the many previously unrealized joys of having clay soil anyway if anyone has any ideas about what to do about that short of going to rent a jackhammer for the umpteenth time and ending up with a big hole in the ground i d love to hear it seems like i should be able to use a buried wad of hardened clay to my advantage somehow and it also makes me wonder if there s a way to utilize fire to make an actual building foundation posted by splatgirl at 4 10 pm 4 comments saturday july 02 2011 kee klamp trellis have you heard of kee klamp they re a whole line of plug and play fittings that can be used for building just about anything out of fence post or iron pipe and they re pretty neato with iron pipe they accomplish the same thing as standard threaded pipe fittings only with way way more flexibility and minus the whole threaded thing but as i said they also work with lighter weight galvanized fence posts perfect for adding a quick and easy something to our once barren back door area there s a tough tough life outside our back door it s a spot where just about a perfect storm of hostile to plant factors come together to make for a pretty unfriendly environment for things that grow unfortunately things that grow are exactly what is needed there for a couple of years we had a really cool twisted baby locust tree it did great and grew like mad and got huge and perfect right up until it died one winter so sad it took me a whole year to accept it was dead not a little bit because having to cut it down meant having to figure something else out thus began the hunt for solutions to adding some green and vertical to this spot something super cold hardy and moisture issue tolerant and perennial and of a not too big scale which excludes most trees kind of a tall order once i got right down to it eventually i decided i liked the lower risk easier to plant and remove should this plan b fail idea of a vine of some sort and that a trellis for said vine would be an interesting way to add some dimension to the otherwise completely flat side of the house plus i figured if worse comes to worse and i fail again i can always resort to a fast growing annual vine instead so anyway out came the kee klamp card because it s just too handy and cool of a product not to find a way to use following one of those very non specific kinds of plans that i seem to excel at first i figured out what size and shape i wanted for the finished trellis after acquiring the necessary supplies and fittings we cut the fence post sections to the appropriate length hooked the whole thing together and plunked it into place as i said we went with galvanized steel fence posts which are available at the home center in 10 foot lengths and various diameters just be sure you choose a size that corresponds to a kee klamp size the actual kee klamp joinery is easy as can be slip the fittings onto the pipe ends and tighten the allen screws to hold them in place what s not shown here is that the lower section of vertical post is pounded down into the ground a few feet to help hold the whole thing in place after the basic structure was built and attached to the house came everyone s favorite activity cable swaging we re still working on using up the original 1000ft spool of cable i bought to do the interior railings we used a plumb bob to get a straight line from the top pole to the bottom and then drilled holes in the pipe sections so the cable could pass through here s the finished trellis planted with some super mn hardy grapevines we ll hope make it through the winter they don t look like much yet but i ve had great luck with another grapevine in a similarly hostile spot outside our patio sliders and if they take off even sort of as well as that one we should have a lovely shady wall of green next summer the second step of this project is to add some kind of shade sail bit or polycarbonate roof section that attaches to the trellis and shelters the doorway a little but i haven t quite worked up the ambition to tackle that yet maybe once the wicked august sunshine and heat ease up posted by splatgirl at 9 46 pm 5 comments friday june 24 2011 i know it s been forever the problem is i just have way too many projects on my to do list the shed done except for paint on the soffits and a couple of pieces of trim the whole tree incident other than causing the finished product to be slightly less perfectly level than it was prior turned out to have gone about as well as a tree falling on anything could have so once spring rolled around we were basically ready to hit it with roofing and siding i went with the same hardi panel siding and exposed fastener design we did on the house along with some corrugated galvanized roofing leftovers it took some thought but we managed to use up just about everything we had in the way of scraps of both siding and metal so it s a win all around the big picture window frame got painted red for a pop of color and the rest the same grey as the house for another couple of hundred bucks in lumber we carpenter ed up the rest of the wrap around porch and a ramp topped off with some lovely cedar decking and i now have the perfect spot for some outdoor lounging as soon as i find the a great set of chairs and side table with some patio pots added still waiting for paint on the soffits but an excellent deal has been scored on some porch chairs and once those arrive i have no more excuses and it needs to stop raining every day of course i need to do something to screen the view of the shed contents through the windows i was originally planning to hang a curtain across the front inside because i like the idea of making it seem like more of a little cottage but now i ve thought of the idea of using frost film directly on the windows and i m waffling between the two shocking i know so moving on to the next item on our diy menu posted by splatgirl at 2 47 pm 7 comments tuesday march 15 2011 and then it was winter in minnesota when the weather decides it s done it s done we made quick work of installing the awesome keyed craigslist slider and windows and then spent another couple of hours wrapping the whole thing up tight with tyvek perhaps overkill for a shed but since the plan was to install hardipanel siding on the exterior to match the house we figured it couldn t hurt just to make sure everything stays nice and dry inside the mini storage style roll up door you can t see in the photo below but it went in without a hitch in about a half hour it was an easy job for two people and it works and looks great and was definitely worth the cost there s another one of those cool bubble windows hiding on the west side so all that remained for getting weathertight was some roofing but because everyone s favorite or not big box store pro desk took two weeks and three different people to figure out how to order our 1 1 4 corrugated galvanized sheet metal even though it is a stock item in many stores and once they got their act together enough to actually place the order got it wrong it was a month before we had anything to work with had we been shipped the correct product we would have beaten the snow but since we were roofless and the weather wouldn t wait we covered the roof with tyvek as a stopgap and considered the project put to bed until spring and then it snowed that very same night if i recall correctly a heavy wet sloggy snow that coated and stuck to everything it was actually kind of pretty to wake up to until i looked out the bedroom window and saw this it was a sleepy weekend morning and unfortunately for boy i believe the first words out of my mouth that day were holy s a tree fell on our shed it was sort of unreal because after choosing a location in th...