Category Archives: Office

DIY Tips – Fill Them Holes

***UPDATE! THESE DO NOT WORK WITH BILLY BOOKCASES*** So you know how Ikea (or any prefab) cabinets & bookcases have all those shelf holes for allowing you to move your shelves around willy nilly? They're super useful, but they leave unsightly dark holes that clearly give your shelving unit away as not being custom built. I...

DIY Tips, Kitchen, Office

March 12, 2013

Kristen

bookcase, cabinets, diy tips, fill, ikea, kitchen, shelf, shelf holes

Vintage Hi-Fi Unit to Bar

El Granto always wanted a bar. Not just any bar, but a man’s bar. One to hold bourbon and cigars, mustaches and testosterone. One that smelled like rich mahogany and leather bound books. We were at Aberfoyle Antique Market one Sunday when El Granto spied a vintage Hi-Fi cabinet. It was solid wood, had two doors on the...

Cool Projects, DIY, Office

January 24, 2013

Kristen

antique, bar, booze, cigars, diy, whiskey

Repairing a Broken Chair

If you follow us over on the new fangled thing called facebook you may have noticed a photo El Granto uploaded the other day of a busted rocking chair that followed him home. (more…)...

DIY, Office

November 12, 2012

Kristen

chair, furniture repair, paint, re-finishing, recycling, rocking chair

Hide Your Ugly Office Tech

I enjoy having internet, hell without it I wouldn't be posting this. However I hate all the technology required for it. Wifi cable modem, router, cables, wires...yuck. They are always a tangled mess of blinking lights and ugly plastic. So what do you do about it? Make friends with some cigar smokers (thanks El Granto...

Cool Projects, DIY, Office, Organization

September 3, 2012

Kristen

cables, cigar box, Office, organization, tech

Office Closet Storage

As our office is actually our third bedroom, it conveniently had a closet. A closet was the perfect place to store all the not so pretty office essentials. i.e. paper, cd's, printer, El Granto's ~~ugly~~ utilitarian college filing cabinet, as well as some oversize items that take up a lot of space in our own...

DIY, Home Improvement, Office

August 22, 2012

Kristen

office closet, organization

Ikea Goliat Drawer Unit ReHab

A long long time ago, when El Granto & I moved in together, El Granto was still in school, I had just graduated and was working my first big kid job. We had no money, ate copious amounts of pasta and potatoes, and spent what was left on (cheap) beer. Needless to say our furniture consisted...

Cool Projects, DIY, Home Improvement, Office

August 8, 2012

Kristen

Goliat, Ikea Hack, martha stewart, Office, paint

Ikea Dining Table to Desk

We needed a desk for the office. We loved old bankers desks, and lovely chunky vintage desks, but we had one problem. Whatever desk we wanted in the office needed to be able to fit up our tiny staircase, or be hefted up and over our second floor deck. Otherwise it needed to be assembled...

DIY, Home Improvement, Office

August 6, 2012

Kristen

desk, hack, ikea, Office, paint

Office Lighting

The office light was originally a Ikea Erbium ceiling light that the moment a truck drove by would shake and rattle so hard you thought it was going to explode and rain glass down on your head. [caption id="attachment_659" align="aligncenter" width="500"]

Ikea Erbium Light[/caption] Not only was the...

Home Improvement, Lighting, Office

July 27, 2012

Kristen

barn light electric, ikea, lighting, Office

From Billy to Built-Ins

Our house is a three bedroom, two large bedrooms and one smaller. The smaller is of course the best choice for either an office or nursery. We wanted to plan for an office now, and if we ever needed it down the road, an easy transition to a nursery. Read More

Cool Projects, DIY, Feature Post, Home Improvement, Office, Woodworking

July 26, 2012

Kristen

billy, bookcase, built in, diy, exhausting, hack, ikea, life hack, painting

When it Rains it Pours (The Chair Hunt Part II)

I posted about my chair hunt less than a week ago. By that point I had been scourging Craigslist & Kijiji for an antique bankers chair for weeks. I had dragged El Granto into many an antique store, and even shook my fist at the TV when I saw Sarah Richardson had...

Office

July 23, 2012

Kristen

chair, free, furniture, garbage, Office, recycle

Category Archives: Office

DIY Tips – Fill Them Holes

Vintage Hi-Fi Unit to Bar

Repairing a Broken Chair

Hide Your Ugly Office Tech

Office Closet Storage

Ikea Goliat Drawer Unit ReHab

Ikea Dining Table to Desk

Office Lighting

From Billy to Built-Ins

When it Rains it Pours (The Chair Hunt Part II)

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