Good morning and welcome to Saturday Morning Home Repair Blogging.
Saturday Morning Home Repair Blogging, or SMHRB for short, is where we gather every Saturday morning to share frustrations, questions, possible solutions, and general wisdom about keeping our houses in good shape. Everyone is welcome and you should feel free to ask questions. Hopefully, the collective professional expertise and DIY experience here can help you out with your projects. I'm Milly Watt, serving as guest host for today's edition.
Of course, if SMHRB were just about keeping the roof from leaking, the toilet flushing, and the walls from rotting away (as important as those certainly things are), I doubt we'd keep the interest of those talented and creative folks who stop by every week. No, it's also about making our dwellings beautiful, unique, maybe a bit playful, and "homes" instead of just houses.
If paint were just about protecting raw wood from the elements, then would anyone bother with the intricate paint jobs of the Victorian Painted Ladies?
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Or how about painting a mural on the wall?
If bathroom vanities were just about catching water in the sink, would Claude and his client have bothered finding fossils for the purpose?
From SMHRB 3.17 with more examples at SMHRB 3.19.
Or go to the work of adapting a treadle sewing machine as the base for another sink in that same house?
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from SMHRB 3.16
If doors were just about closing off rooms, would we have hidden the entrance to our storage room in this bookcase, creating a secret play room for young visitors to discover?
And if showers were just about hygiene, would we have put a pebble floor in our guest shower to give our visitors a foot massage that feels like walking barefoot on the beach?
There may be simpler ways to hide a stovepipe, but we left ours in plain sight surrounded by a metal sculpture of ravens.
Masons may prefer to lay bricks in nice straight rows, but this house wouldn't be the same if they had.
A closeup of brickwork.
So the theme this week is how houses and their people just wanna have fun! Please share some of the
ideas you've implemented, plan to do, or dream about just to have fun and make your home reflect who you are. It's play time!
Of course, questions about a leaking roof, a dysfunctional toilet, or a rotting wall are also pretty important, so feel free to ask those as well.
Just a reminder not to tip the automatic SMHRB tip jar.