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April 26, 2006
Here's the fir storm door that I bought the other day at the ReStore. There are a number of things that we're looking for, so I make sure that I go to the ReStore at least once a week, because their stock changes constantly. I'd just been to Home Depot* looking for a screen door. Having spent a few days out at the new house last week, I quickly came to the conclusion that the mud room was going to need ventilation, particularly considering that ventilation in the house, in general, is very poor because very few of the windows open. We'll have to change that . . . but that's a later project. I just couldn't bring myself to put an aluminum screen/storm door on the house, particularly when we're being so careful to keep it in historical perspective.
The only reason that I found the door I ended up with was because there was a couple who were looking at several doors, trying to decide which one they wanted. When they walked away, I promptly pounced on it, measured it, deemed it to be usable, and scurried off with it (well, as much as lugging a heavy fir door, with its original 12 glass panes, can be called "scurrying"). Stripped, sanded, and refinished, it should look pretty smart.
I wasn't as excited about the light fixture (as evidenced by my previous post, but I think it'll look just fine. It's got a rather odd texture, which appears to be almost cloth-like. *shrug* It looks paintable, but Dad'll have the last word on that . . . not that it doesn't look okay as it is, I'm just not entirely sold on the colour. Regardless, it only cost me $30, so it's not like it owes me or anything (and, it would look perfectly fine in the larger of the two main floor bedrooms).
Now, I'd better get back to my term paper, which I'd like to get finished by tomorrow afternoon. So, from one aspect of the wide topic of home improvement (house blogs), I'll go to another (the cultural politics of home improvement).
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* I know, I know . . . I don't like shopping there, but Rona's commercials drive me crazy, I refuse to shop at J&H (for a myriad of reasons that I won't get in to here), and the guys at Home Building Centre have stretched the truth a few too many times when I've asked about specific things. So, that leaves Warman Home Centre, which is much closer to the other house via the Clarkboro Ferry, and the Depot. As I didn't have the time to drive to Warman, I ended up at Depot. :-(
Posted by plainstext at April 26, 2006 07:18 PM
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