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House Stuff

This weekend is nearly over, and it's been all about the house. Yesterday, we spent the majority of the day out and about, shopping for different things. We tried to find the clearance store for kitchen backsplash tiles, but they weren't open yet, so we took a trip to Home Depot (to two of them, actually) to find a melamine panel that matched our cabinets. Our plan is to create a shelving area between where our kitchen cabinets end, and where the countertop ends, so that we can eventually tile across the whole width of the countertop. Well it turns out that neither Home Depot have the melamine panels we need in the right color (Beech), so that project was put on temporary hold, along with the kitchen tiles.

Today I managed to install a dimmer switch for our pot lights, my first electrical project in the new house, and it actually turned out just fine. The bad news is that while shutting off the switch at the fuse box in the cellar, I blew out one of the recepticals in the same room. And even worse, it was the receptical powering our TV, cable box, Playstation3, and Xbox360, so we had to maneuver our way to a different power outlet to get power to them. I went to Home Depot and picked up a new receptical (one with test/reset buttons), but couldn't for the life of me get the grounding wire around the screw while installing it. I was running out of daylight so I decided to wait for tomorrow to try it once more before I inevitably call in an electrician to put together a measly power outlet for me. We'll see how it goes.

Until next time!