Coffee? On.

Once upon a time, I had this little shoe holder thing put up in the hallway behind the door (found in some parenting magazine), for us all to put our many shoes on. Idea was you'd jam the toe in these pieces of wood that were really close together. It actually worked for a couple of days until the volume of shoes overwhelmed the three pieces of wood that I had anchored into the wall, and they basically started collecting on the floor in a pile again.

We have a bunch of shoes.

Anyhoo. We're painting the hallway, and now I got these wall anchors that I wanted to get out without ripping a bigger hole in the wall, so I Googled that, and here is DIYAnswerguy giving me the skinny on how to do it.

The utility knife seemed dangerous as I had a couple of cups of coffee

and might slice open a finger, so I dug out a really sharp chisel.

Sharp chisel, same deal. Pop the head off, jam the rest of it in the wall with a screwdriver, and now you gots a teenier hole to fill up with a lil bit of spackle (I bet you could also use toothpaste - I did that once in an apartment I had when I was 18 and we had stapled pictures of Morrissey/Smiths and New Order and god knows how many other bands on my living room wall. I bet the landlord appreciated that. - ANYway...)

So then I started sanding down with a sandy sponge everything in the hallway, filled up some cracks near the ceiling and some nail holes. Filled in the big hole where the 60's/70's era doorbell used to be.

Tomorrow- we get out the paint. This time I got the GOOD brushes?

The Hallway. The horror, the horror....

My name is Henry.

This is a hall :

From Dec 28, 2009

...a hall that's never really felt "right" to me - a hall that used to have pictures KIND of all down it - over the last four years has gotten all kinds of dings from our little hellion darling 4 year old, Bijou.

This is a vent:

From Dec 28, 2009

An abandoned vent that was just venting into the attic. -UNTIL my jacked-up attempt to cover it with plastic and that expanding foam stuff. ;-) It worked, but now must be corrected and made to look less like ass. I have sheetrock and this mesh tape stuff and a little painting/putty knife, and I'm gonna give it the business.

From Dec 28, 2009

This is the new color of said hallway: Pepper Spice! Wife said this does not look like fecal matter, and will look awesome!

Adventure? Oh yes.

For I am Handy Hank, and I do stuff - and sometimes it turns out well.

From Dec 28, 2009