The next project is a small one.
(After I: tidy the sewing job on the door curtain; sand the raw edge on the bedroom hooks)
Okay, two small ones, one much smaller than the other. First: Hang the mirror in the bedroom.
Second: The walls in the bathroom are ugly, and will be until we raise the ceiling. Also, I have a wire shelving unit for over the toilet just waiting to be installed.
I have bought the materials, and now I want to stretch a panel of fabric over a wooden frame (the fabric is a brown swirl on a buff-colored polyester suede) and hang it over the worst wall (the one I pulled the paneling off so we could see how bad it was), then install the wire shelving in front of it.
THEN I’m going to make a little 8″ cube fabric basket with the scraps.
Whee!
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Cuuuuuute.
Addendum: time estimates?
Fixing extant projects: 1/2 hour each, another 10 minutes for clean up in each case. Hang the mirror in the bedroom: 15 minutes shopping at Agway for hanging tape, 10 minutes futzing and hanging. panel: measure, cut, re-measure, check, and screw together (+ find screws): 1 hour. Find stapler: 1/2 hour (at some point a tool organization system should be on the list…) Staple fabri… add plug-in hole to fabric, 20 minutes Staple fabric to frame, 1/2 hour 2 hours 20 minutes. wire shelving – 10 minutes ++ figuring out what to do with the plastic drawer unit Ri currently has living where shelf legs will go – 1 hour.
I’m pleased with the concept at least.
I am curious about the fabric basket! Is it going to be soft-sided, or is the fabric stiff enough to give it structure, or will it have some sort of frame …?
I’m going to use interfacing to give it some structure and then fill it with ~things~ which should help. All the fabric baskets available for sale are either: too big, too ugly, or made of natural fibers.
Why are natural fibers a bad choice for this application?
Mold issues; the bathroom does not yet have a fan.
Ah. Yes. Ewww.