{"id":1088,"date":"2012-09-19T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/katrina.effexhost.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/19\/clean-home-clean-life-challenge-update\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T19:42:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T19:42:05","slug":"clean-home-clean-life-challenge-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifewithkatie.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/19\/clean-home-clean-life-challenge-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean Home, Clean Life Challenge Update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>\u00a0Ok, I admit it. I totally dropped the ball on posting the weekly challenges here on the site. I hope that you can forgive me. If you’re ever wondering what they are (because I yet again forgot to post them), they all are up on the Facebook group<\/a>. It’s pretty quiet over there but don’t let that put you off. Just jump right in!<\/p>\n

This week’s challenge was to tackle our hobby supplies. Since I feel like the queen of hobbies, I chose just one and decided to tackle it. Since it’s going to be getting cold here soon, I decided I ought to try to make some sense of our barn\/garage. It’s a total disaster and you’re lucky if you can find a path through it. Don’t believe me? Here’s the corner that I decided to turn into our gardening\/tool area before I started:<\/p>\n

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See what I mean? Things are stacked everywhere! Right after I took this picture, I spent about 20 minutes just rearranging things and throwing some stuff out. \u00a0This got it to here:<\/p>\n

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It’s amazing what a mere 20 minutes can do to a space, isn’t it? I created a path and discovered that there really was a workbench under all of that, just like I remembered! The next steps required three..yes, three trips into Lowes. I decided to tear down the old peg board (it was cheap and filthy and badly hung) and replace it with some new and improved peg board. Then, I decided I didn’t want it to be brown…and here’s where I made my mistake. For some unknown reason, I thought it would be easiest to spray paint it. So, I bought one can of spray paint…yep, just one…now you see where this is going right? One can got me this far:<\/p>\n

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Another trip into town and 4 more cans of spray paint later and I had this :<\/p>\n

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Yep, this required a 3rd trip into town and 2.5 cans of spray paint more and finally all of the peg board was painted :<\/p>\n

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Then, I grabbed the gallon of yellow paint that we had bought for the kitchen (right before I decided I wanted to paint it red!) and I painted the top of the work bench. It took 3 coats and needed a 4th but since it’s a workbench, I don’t mind it looking a bit scruffy.<\/p>\n

Today, I headed back out to the barn and after…well, we won’t say how long or repeat a few of the words I may\/may not have said…I managed to get the peg board hung up. \u00a0It’s not the prettiest job but my nails kept bending and I was trying to hammer and hold at the same time :<\/p>\n

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Ta da! Badly seamed peg board! That’s ok because I promptly went to work covering all that up. First, I added this cabinet that I picked up on the side of the road last summer. It was missing an interior shelf, but a quick look around the barn\/garage and I came up with a scrap that fit perfectly!<\/p>\n

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Up next was sorting out the tools and getting things onto the workbench itself.<\/p>\n

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Last but certainly not least, I hung up the tools that I saw laying around (I’m sure there are more somewhere!) and put those pretty flowers into a larger vase. They probably won’t survive too much longer but I’ll enjoy them while they do. \u00a0When it was all said and done, here’s the final look:<\/p>\n

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Oh! I forgot to mention that I did do one little side project while I was doing this. I had 2 partial and 1 full bag of potting soil laying around. Since nobody has invented a bucket on wheels, I bought a 5 gallon paint bucket, wrote potting soil on it and put it on top of a plant dolly. Now, whenever I need potting soil, I can just pull it out. I filled it with both of the partial bags. The full bag is going to end up in my composter as soon as I drag it out back.<\/p>\n

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My thanks go out to the guys at Lowes who good naturedly teased me every time I walked back in the door to buy just a few more cans of spray paint. I hope y’all enjoyed this little step by step walk through of the first but certainly not the last of the home improvement projects I have scheduled for around here!<\/p>\n

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