the orange door: unique living since 2007

Leaving my current job for my new job meant an end to free printing.  For years I've forwarded documents to myself and printed them at ...

Back on May 21, 2007, I posted a list of project priorities .  This was so long ago, it appears on the stub of a blog that was the precurs...

You may recall that I ran out of time with this project.  But today, we will finish. Here is the full effect. And here it is a...

With Julie's assistance, I have purchased fabric for my Morliden glass doors from Ikea.  This means I am close to finishing my bookcase...

No longer do you see the white dresser when you come in.  Now you see bookcases. My plan was to have two bookcases with glass doors an...

Cutting three-quarters of an inch off the bottom of the bookcases fixed the height problem.  But as I was installing them I noticed somethi...

Here is our "before" shot.  Since we moved in this has been a storage area with the white dresser holding a mish-mash of things, ...

I stopped at an estate sale and fell for this chair.  After paying my $32.50, I went home, got the car and then convinced the chair and the...

The shade was in a not-done state for many days because I needed to purchase the correct screws that actually wanted to go into the door, i...

And after the ribbons were attached, there was the boredom of attaching 12 bird portraits & backing to the curtains.  It was tricky t...

You know what's almost as boring as pressing?  Sewing 12 bird portraits to 12 backing squares. This has been a good reminder I'm no...

Having cut the curtains to size, I prepared them for their grommets.  I was worried that the curtains wouldn't hold the weight of...