Odds and Ends of 2018

Here are a few of the projects that were too small or similar to merit their own entries.

Early in the year, I decided to refinish the coffee table. The process is largely similar to the kitchen table I refinished. The coffee table had been badly beat up over time and looked like this.

It took a lot of sanding (my son helped with this briefly) to get through all the gouges. Staining and finishing went well. The individual boards are more visible, but they look good.


In May, we added another garden box, doubling our garden capacity. We actually did very well with tomatoes this year, too, bringing them in before the first hard freeze and letting them ripen in the basement. We were eating homegrown tomatoes as late as Christmas.


I made another custom t-shirt. I've been meaning to do several more of these, so maybe they'll be in next year's odds and ends.


We repainted all the white ceilings and walls in the house. No pictures of that, since it's about at interesting as you'd imagine. Instead, I'll show off some board gaming miniatures I painted. This was a learning process that turned out well.

I ended up not keeping the game that took the longest to paint, but the pieces sure look good for whomever will end up playing with them.


Project-wise, the kitchen remodel took a lot of my attention in 2018. We plan to redo the lighting this year, replacing the florescent lights with something nicer.