Caleb the Handyman

Caleb did some wonderful home improvements this weekend.

First of all, our bathroom faucets have always leaked just a little bit, so we decided to put some new ones in. You can't really tell from the pictures but the new ones look MUCH better!

Before...

Caleb working his magic...

And after!

We have two bathrooms, so he did two of these this weekend. After he put the faucets in, we went to IKEA to try and find something to organize this mess...

I got the wonderful idea to make a craft corner in our spare room. Well, to say the least, it isn't working out so smoothly. Trying to make a very small room into 1/4 spare bedroom, 1/4 computer room, 1/4 storage area and 1/4 craft space is a lot harder than I thought it would be.

Anyway, we didn't find anything for the room at IKEA, but I did find a beautiful bookcase for my front room. The bookcase we had in our front room is ancient. It's also pretty much a piece of crap. I'm pretty sure it was my brother Kimo's at one time. It was black, but has since been painted white twice, and the black paint still seems to sneek its way to the top. It is made of particle board and needs many shimms along the back corners to "try" to make it "level." I've been begging, pleading and whining for about as long as we've lived in our house for a new bookcase, but I've never really found one I liked that I was willing to pay for. Then we found this bad boy at IKEA for only $79.99! Wohoo! Caleb gladly put it together for me. I'm pretty sure he was more excited about it than me because now he doesn't have to listen to me jabber on and on about how wonderful a new bookcase would be...

Our ghetto before bookcase...

Caleb hard at work again... (see doesn't he look excited??)

Our new, super cute bookcase!

We also found some nice corner shelving for the plants in our kitchen, but I'm not finished decorating it yet, so I'll put pics up when I get it done. As for the craft room, we will be working on it this week and we'll see if we can ever get it finished. I did decide to use the old, ghetto bookcase in the craft room though. I think I'm gonna spray paint it some cool color too, we'll see if the black paint can find its way through one more layer. We sure are getting our use out of that old hunk of junk! :)