A work surface: followup
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I put my hinged table project on hold because this whole other almost-full time, intensive, non-paying job of writing intervened, but today after "work" (I shouldn't put that in quotes--it's work) I finally finished it.
Just hanging around:

In service:

It's...not bad, functionally. Standing-height, reasonably sturdy. I could have spent more time perfecting the paint job, and it's not that easy to reach under and extend the triangular supports, but whatever.
If I had it to do over again, I'd probably opt not to, but hey! It'll come in handy, and it's not in the way, and plus, I learned all about strap-toggles and the vagaries of terribly uneven old plaster walls.
Total cost: about $75.
Just hanging around:

In service:

It's...not bad, functionally. Standing-height, reasonably sturdy. I could have spent more time perfecting the paint job, and it's not that easy to reach under and extend the triangular supports, but whatever.
If I had it to do over again, I'd probably opt not to, but hey! It'll come in handy, and it's not in the way, and plus, I learned all about strap-toggles and the vagaries of terribly uneven old plaster walls.
Total cost: about $75.
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19/6/14 04:13 (UTC)(no subject)
19/6/14 06:58 (UTC)Also--and I didn't anticipate this--it's absolutely invisible in the dark, and I would HATE to be running into it. I'm thinking it needs some LED light strips or something. For safety. Like, I dunno, a runway or something.
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19/6/14 11:22 (UTC)How goes the work?
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19/6/14 19:55 (UTC)I put pins on the tops of the triangular supports, and they slot into metal nuts in the underside of the table. There was a hell of a lot of level-plumb-and-square-ing to consider, and I didn't get it all quite right. I shall continue to fiddle with it. But it's working.
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19/6/14 19:59 (UTC)...though, in that case, I'd /definitely/ patch and paint the latch hole in the side, because otherwise you could lose some pins down there that would be hard to get back out.
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9/7/14 22:17 (UTC)Wow, your new bedroom looks amazing! I love the way you made the stencil design continue into the headboard. Nifty. The door is gorgeous too. I was looking at the door's before picture and thinking it looked nice, what was the point of changing it? And then the after shots are so much more glamorous, and so much more you.
Thank you for the link to that excellent article by Heidi Cullinan.
And thank you for the hazelnut and chocolate in the blender revelation recipe. Yum!
I really must get a high-powered blender one of these days. I only have a regular one and kale is not sufficiently pulverised or disguised by it. :)
Your post on ephemeralization was a fantastic read. I looked up from it and saw my surroundings in a new way.
I love the fold-down-when-not-in-use work surface. (I have a desk that I dearly love that I got off a kind soul on Freecycle but it does take up literally a third of my room. And it's cast iron so there's no way to make it smaller.) The pulley system looks good.
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9/7/14 23:27 (UTC)I don't know how household appliances are marketed across the pond, but that little Nutri-Bullet blender of mine was under $100 on Amazon. I've been using it at least twice a day for a few months now and so far it's going strong. Now that the weather is hot, I've been slushing up lots of ice cubes, and it works like a champ. (No device that I've heard of will quite liquefy kale. I have to add a good bit of water. Also: drinking it through a straw is the only way to go. It's almost like getting it through a feed tube that way. LOL!)
I can't even imagine how much a cast iron desk must weigh! Sounds like something to hide under when the big one hits, though.
Thanks for checking in!
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29/7/14 20:59 (UTC)(no subject)
30/7/14 18:48 (UTC)You know, I think I'll turn this comment into a post! Thanks for asking. I hope all is well with you, too. My new computer with its real, mainstream operating system, lets me stream more content than I've had access to with Ubuntu, so I might be able to follow some of your great movie recommendations now.