A NEW PROJECT – TV RACK FOR THE NEW TV!

After about a week of rest, the hubby once again embarked on a new project – this time to construct a new TV rack for the new TV, but of course! The old one just won’t do since we would have to remove the top shelf just so our new 32-inch TV would fit in the old rack. He started making the rack yesterday from leftover wood that he scavenged. And today, he finished assembling it and had even painted the cabinet with white primer before he came in to dinner tonight. I guess he’s getting quite good at it because he seems to need less time to accomplish the cabinet itself. It helped, too, that he used a mechanical saw to cut the wood into the size that he wanted. Aside from being quicker, it was less strenuous than using an ordinary saw. Well, here’s a picture of the cabinet. He planned to paint it black but we still have to buy the paint. He also wants to install glass doors for it, but we have to find where to buy it and have it made by someone else coz he sure doesn’t know yet how to make that kind of a door, will provide more updates soon…

THE KITCHEN CABINET IS FINISHED!

Here are just some updates on the hubby’s cabinet-making project. After three weeks of sawing and sandpapering and hammering the cabinet mostly at night after eating dinner and also during weekends, he was finally able to complete the cabinet construction including the plywood at the back and the cabinet doors which he had a bit of difficulty making. Then after another week he finished painting it and so here’s a picture of the cabinet and how it looks inside the kitchen. I thank God for my husband for being a true handyman around the house. In all we spent just something like 2K for the wood and the paints, such a cheap amount to spare to create something so beautiful and useful. If I were to buy something like this at a furniture store, I am sure it would cost so much more than that!

NEW CABINET PROJECT

Today, I was surprised when the hubby arrived after buying some wood and begin another cabinet project for the kitchen. Last year, he started to make a cabinet for my son (I think it was around July) but when he had a huge gash on his right hand that required more than ten stitches (while he was playing with the cutter), I guess the hubby had a bit of a trauma and had refused to do anything at all that was related to carpentry. Well, that’s just what I thought we never really talked about it though. He just stopped making anything wooden after that.

Well, that was until last week when I mentioned to him that the kitchen needed some redecorating, for instance, we need a new cabinet so that I would be able to fix some of the things that are just stocked underneath the sink – like the turbo broiler, the rice cooker, the blender and some pots and pans that are longing to be displayed. I wanted some new cabinets for under the sink too but I don’t think we already have the money to commission someone to do that for us. So I guess I’ll just have to wait until we have more money to spend. Meantime, I am thankful that the hubby has returned to carpentry once again and this has kept him busy puttering about in the garage with his tools and his paints. He keeps me awake in the afternoons with his banging and his electric grinder but I’m happy I would have a new cabinet soon.

Here’s a picture of the cabinet he made for my son last year. And the cabinet he has been doing for the last 2 days … I will post more pics once the kitchen cabinet is completed!

NEW FENCE FOR THE HOUSE

Over the weekend, the hubby and a few relatives (Kuya Ric and Rely) came over to start work on the fence…he renewed his loan from Pag-ibig and from it he got around 17K, just enough to start buying materials for the fence like steel rods (for the posts and flooring), cement, hollow blocks, gravel and sand. It was supposed to be just Jun and Kuya Ric but just our luck that Rely (our pamangkin and Ditse’s eldest son) got into a fight with his wife and so he took off bringing a big bag of his clothes with him. And so he provided a much-needed extra pair of hands so that the fence construction will go along smoothly. You see, what I really wanted was to have a small bedroom constructed on top of the garage/extension but our budget was quite limited. In fact, the 17K would not be enough so that the hubby had to take out another loan (from their office COOP fund this time) since we had to pay a teeny bit pa for labor and food of the workers while they are working. But all the expense is just OK…at least we’ll be able to get a bit more privacy and even security with the construction of our new fence…the only bad thing was…all our plants were destroyed!!! See that small shrub on the right side? They tried to move it to a different location but made the mistake of not including a bit of soil when they took out the plant and so some of the roots were cut…and it withered and died after just a few days so I guess we weren’t meant to have a shrub like that – sayang! We just trimmed it and shaped it a few days ago and then it died lang! Even the palmera (the plant given by Mama when we moved in) had to be sacrificed because the tree itself lay on the path of the left wall…oh well, I guess that means we just have to plant new ones na lang… there’s still some space left pa naman on the left side of the house e…