DIY Don’t

I installed the cabinet handles in my kitchen. I have not purchased handles for the bathrooms yet as I’m not sure what ones I want yet. I messed up measuring on the FIRST cabinet and put the hole in the wrong spot. I’ll have to figure out how to patch that with the glazing that’s on the cabinets. It’s under the handle so not really noticeable until you look for it. SO mad at myself, but I do love these handles. I purchased them from House of Antique Hardware. I looked at local hardware stores and all they had were the 3-4” ones. The upper cabinets have 6” handles, larger drawers have 5” cup pulls, lower cabinets have 5 1/8” handles, small drawers 3” cup pulls and the small cabinets above the fridge and next to the sink/dishwasher have knobs. I used a plastic template for installation, though the template didn’t have spots for the 6” handles so had to measure and level. I put painter’s tape on the door first and marked that.

The other project I did was staining the stair handrail. I did one coat and that’s it because you are supposed to wait 6 hours between coats. I started at the top of the stairs. I hope it dries ok, but this was hard. I don’t have a ladder tall enough to get to the outside of the rail so I was staining blind over the top of the rail to the outside. Since there isn’t a straight line where the pickets are, they were hard to tape and I know I got stain on the pickets. I’ll have to fix all that after moving in. The bottom rail looks a lot better because I could use a ladder to get to it. This reminded me how much I hate painting. I should have paid them to do this. The posts will be painted white instead of stained.