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DIY

DIY

DIY painting a upvc door

Our front door was a light chalky green colour – it was pretty nice, but we decided to change it to black gloss. One tin or rustoleum later, we have a black door.

By Jonathan Mitchell, 3 months3 months ago
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DIY painting a stone fireplace

Our fireplace is made from fake stone – almost concrete like, but trying to look and feel like sandstone. Its very nice, but it’s a yellow colour. We decided to paint it, and after a little research found that chalk paint would be best, here are the results After leaving Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 3 months3 months ago
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Led lighting

Starting the finishing touches on the workshop – adding some Led lights. They turned out very well :)

By Jonathan Mitchell, 4 months4 months ago
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DIY garage makeover – part 6 – music corner

We are entering ?third? lockdown now (though it feels like 7 months of solid lockdown, minus two days in the office) so I thought it time to do some more in the workshop; I needed somewhere for my music production gear. First up was a desk – I stacked two Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 4 months5 months ago
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Solar Security Flood Lights

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.

By Jonathan Mitchell, 6 months6 months ago
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DIY garage makeover – part 5 – machines

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 6 months6 months ago
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Replacing door speakers on Honda CRV gen3

By Jonathan Mitchell, 6 months3 weeks ago
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DIY garage makeover – part 4 – network

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 6 months6 months ago
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DIY garage makeover – part 3 – electrics

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 6 months6 months ago
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DIY Garage makeover – part 2 – desks and bookcases

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 months8 months ago
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DIY Decking makeover

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 months9 months ago
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DIY Garage makeover – part 1 – painting the walls white

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 months6 months ago
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DIY Girls Princess Bedroom Makeover and Playroom Makeover

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…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 10 months9 months ago
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