More DIY - Vanity

We've always wanted to replace the upstairs plain old wall mounted sink with a proper vanity. And we did it today. From our previous plumbing adventures in this house we were expecting it not to go perfectly but we had loads of unexpected extra work come up.
We had to replace the drain like we expected but the part attaching to the wall crumbled away a bit and was all gunky anyway so we had to use a rubber thing we found in the basement to attach it to the drain.
And a bit of unpainted wall shows now. We don't have the matching paint in the basement but Kevin managed to mix up two other paints that we had to make a paint that matches well enough.
And we had to cut away the baseboard.
And we had to return the faucet that we originally bought because it splashed a bit too much and the pop up drain cover didn't work.
But it's all done now.

Shelves!

Kevin and I started working on these shelves about a week ago but we have been talking about them for months. We are so happy with them. They are totally level and not wobbly at all. And we think they look quite nice. We bought the big laminated boards for the shelves, that was the main expense. All the rest of the pieces are just made from standard 2x4s that I put through the table saw and the router.

We made the shelves in this little enclave that we created when we boxed in a duct that was put in when we got a new furnace. That was our project that we did at the beginning of September.

Range Hood

My main accomplishment of the day was to replace our old range hood that stopped working shortly after we moved in. I installed and did the wiring all myself. Went well except I've had to take off the part that covers the wires because it rattles when the fan is on no matter what I do.

I thought this was funny that when the old one was installed they put a bunch of pencils in for some reason and they've been there doing their job, whatever that was, for 40 years.

A lot of it was covered in 40 years of grease - some parts were pretty disgusting.

The new masterpiece:

Drywalling Weekend

We spent the WHOLE weekend finally drywalling the ceiling in the garage. It`s needed doing since the fall when we tore down the old ceiling to add more insulation. It turned out pretty well. I still need to do the taping and mudding but I`ll do that some time during the week by myself.