Projects of all kinds

[melaniesuzanne]

In order of remembrance, not importance:

House
Basement
Rip up carpet
Patch walls
Paint walls
New light fixtures
Remove wet bar
New furniture
New TV/home theatre system
Do something with the back yard
Organize under-stair storage
Slipcover loveseat (stupid cats)

Mid level
Replace carpets (carpet? wood?)
Replace vinyl flooring (wood? tile?)
Rip up stair carpet
Patch kitchen paint
New kitchen cabinets
New fridge
New dishwasher
Bookshelves in dining room
New windows
Replace outdoor light
Replace door hardware
Do something with the front yard
Install closet system in coat closet?
Slipcover chair & sofa (stupid cats)
Reupholster cane-back chairs
Electrical outlet at bottom of stairs (requires ceiling demo & patching in basement)

Upper level
Replace carpets
Replace broken bath floor tiles
Replace vanity, mirror, lights
Paint bedroom
Replace closet doors
New windows
Patch & paint back corner of craft room
Install closet systems in linen closets?
Replace bath fan
Replace bedroom ceiling fan
Remove extraneous smoke detector

Attic
More insulation
Cover thingie for attic stairs?

SCA / LH
Linen shirts for Scott
Linen camicie for me
Wool tunics for Scott
Wool cotes for Scott
Lacing cord for Scott's yellow cote
Venetian-style cioppe/giornee for me
Venetian-style gamurre for me
Cuffia for me
Hood for Scott?

School
Complete FAFSA
Decide upon enrollment date
Talk with Sterling AI about transfer of online credits

Exchequer
Check 2nd quarter reports
Send list of transactions to KE

Comments

[alienor.livejournal.com]

My parents have wood in their kitchen, which I always thought was kinda weird, since the kitchen is where you have all sorts of wet spills and such, and wood doesn't like that.

OTOH, they don't have pets. N and Hunter like to play with ice cubes and Hunter always looses them under the kitchen appliances. With tile, I try not to worry about it.

We wouldn't keep their water fountain in the kitchen if we had wood floor, either.

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

Is it real world wood or is it engineered wood? Engineered wood can go in all those places real wood shouldn't.

[alienor.livejournal.com]

By engineered wood, you mean things like Pergo, right?

If I remember right, doesn't your vinyl go up to your basement stairs?

We looked at putting an engineered flooring like that in our upper level, but were stumped at the stair landing. Since it's a floating floor, the last piece needs to go under something, so you have something jutting up right at the top of your stairs (also it'll wear down faster).

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(And, for the record, my parents have real wood)

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

Not quite. Engineered wood is between hardwood and laminate. It actually has a layer of wood on top of plywood. Okay, I suppose that technically counts as a laminate, but it's a wood laminate rather than melamine paper. Bamboo floors are engineered wood.

The basement stairs are carpeted up to the entry hall. We're still trying to decide what to do with the basement floor and stairs. The engineered stuff can be nailed down, glued down, or installed as a floating floor.

[alienor.livejournal.com]

Ah, then I misremembered.

But if it's made of wood, doesn't it have the problems of being wood in a possibly wet environment?

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

It's not recommended for a kid's bathroom or a basement that floods regularly, but it can hold up to an occassional light wetting. Maybe because it's slightly less expensive than the real stuff people don't mind if it gets a little wet?

[alienor.livejournal.com]

The issue with real wood (and, presumably, engineered wood) is that if the water sits there for any length of time the wood will absorb the water and swell.

I don't know how long that "length of time" is but Mom is very . . . particular . . . about her floors.


I don't know about your cats, but mine like to play in their water, so keeping the water fountain on a wood floor wouldn't happen since I'm not going to be cleaning that up every hour (I can't remember where your cats' water is).

[strawberrykaren.livejournal.com]

Lemme know if you'd like the AI textbooks, etc. -- and I definitely recommend applying for as much transfer & "life credit" as possible. (It's incredibly tedious to have to take a course that covers stuff you already know but requires bajillions of assignments and comments to show that you've absorbed the material as it's taught in the course. Save yourself that grief by paying the "life credit" fees if you can.) ;-)

So -- are you going full-time or part-time? :-)

[melaniesuzanne.livejournal.com]

Yes, if we have course overlap I would *LOVE* to borrow your textbooks. And I have NO problem with paying the life credit fee; it's still cheaper than the hourly rate.

I think I'll be going part-time. I'm still trying to decide. :) Heck, I'm still trying to decide if I'm going to start in October or wait until the new year.

[strawberrykaren.livejournal.com]

When I was doing full-time levels of coursework, it meant a much heavier amount of assignments to have to churn through (plus twice as many "substantive comments" to post to other students' classwork), not to mention the frenzy of completing two totally different final projects every five weeks. (And I was only doubled-up on pairs of really easy courses -- that's wouldn't have always been the case if I'd done that throughout my program, and there'd have been times when I'd have been dealing with two difficult and highly technical courses.) But it does mean getting done in half the time, and if you don't have many other commitments on your time, it's probably worthwhile.

I guess that'd be good parameters for deciding whether to start in October or January too. Do you have things going on in Oct/Nov/Dec that will mean that you can't do coursework? (But it's a good excuse to get many of the "to-do's" on the posting above done before the coursework begins.) ;-)