The Thumb & Hammer Blog

Two weeks after our carpet was installed we still have not moved everything back into the family room.  Our procrastination is partly due to the number of boxes to go through and reorganize.  But for me, the main reason I am in no hurry to bring stuff back into the family room is that I [...]

The new carpet has been installed in the family room.  After seven years of looking at outdated, dirty, stained cranberry carpet, and after several days of walking on OSB floors, we now have brand new clean neutral carpet that is wonderfully un-trendy.  It took the installers about four hours from start to finish to lay [...]

I made a mistake.  In a previous blog post,  I indicated that the floor in the family room was only 7/16 inch OSB.  As it turns out, the OSB was installed over plywood of unknown thickness.  I discovered this fact when I removed the old carpet in a small closet where the OSB had not [...]

I did something that I am not proud of, something that irks me when others do it. I criticized the previous owner’s decor.  Paint and carpet colours are matters of personal taste and are easily changed, usually. The pink and cream sponged walls may not have been to our taste, but a couple of coats [...]

The second coat of paint went on much faster than the first.  Start to finish only took four and a half hours, almost two hours less than the first coat.  Had we not been in desperate need of groceries (the cupboard was bare), I might have invested a couple of hours in painting the trim [...]