The house had an old school mains powered security light. Time to upgrade to the 21st century with some solar powered lights. The ones I got were basic and from ebay, they have 142 leds per light, and have a ton of lumens each.
The workshop is coming along nicely now – areas for tools, music equipment, and plenty room for working on machines, servers, blog content, experiments or random things like gameboys! The rug is going to go soon – it was from the living room and the recycle centre was closed during Read more…
What would a modern workshop be without an Internet connection 😂 We have FTTP which enters the property at the front – into a router. I’ve run a cable from there, along the skirting and out near the front door (closest point to the drainpipe I would follow to the Read more…
In Scotland there are a few things that you can do which don’t require planning permission (or a building warrant) extending a ring to add extra sockets is one of those things you can do if you have a regular 2 story house (though you do have to have a Read more…
I ordered some alex drawers, some linmon desktops (the 2m versions) and some little stands from Ikea for some ikea desk hacks, and three 4×2 kallax units for storing books on the other wall. The first thing to do was to build the three alex drawer units and the drawers. Read more…
Our new house came with decking, but it was in need of a coat of paint. It lasted the inter fine, but was in need of some TLC. Just before lockdown I managed to get some grey paint (our shed is grey and white too, so it should match nicely) Read more…
Our new house has a garage, which I’m going to use as a workshop area (though I wont be changing its actual use from a garage, it will still be a garage, only with nice shelves on either side and some computers and screens) – let the DIY Garage makeover Read more…
Since moving to our new house we have been doing a number of DIY jobs, including this makeover of our little girls bedroom, and turning the spare room into a permanent playroom so that she had somewhere to draw, play and read. Her upcoming 4th birthday was the perfect excuse Read more…
