HOME/DiY: Tidying & Fixing…

Simple stuff. Homely stuff. It’s good!

An original acrylic sketch, and a Ruskin postcard.

Today I’m working a late shift, in the evening. So during the day I’m doing lots of little things: returning an item to Amazon (Dixie cap US Navy hat, that’s too small); tidying the bedroom, area by area; mending a broken picture-frame; and hanging some art back up, on’t walls.

Brice Marden, back up.

The Brice Marden artwork above has a damaged frame, sadly. I’ll prob fix it soon-ish. Or I might just get a new/replacement one?

As is so often the case, with some of these myriad little jobs, I forgot to take a before pic, re the tidying up of cables and power supplies near our bedroom TV and DVD-player.

Some tools for this job.

I decided to attach some of the junction type units – an HDMI adaptor, and a four-way plug adaptor, for example – to other things. To create some order where all was ugly and dysfunctional chaos!

Marking up the Velcro patch area.
Velcro added.
Ugly junction box attached and hidden.

The little round HDMI hub, or junction box, is now on the back of the TV, instead of just hanging mid-air. And one of the four-gangs is now attached to the wall above the skirting board.

Ready to be attached…
That this is a helluva lot neater says something!

And then there’s a Vermeer print with a broken frame and missing glass. I found the missing glass. And the frame is currently gluing… I trust/hope?

Getting this frame repaired…

I even tidied up the area – last night and this morning – around the dining table. I did that for Burns’ Night. Here’s how it looks now:

Much nicer!

Just in time for Burns’ Night leftovers…

Yummy!

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