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bedroom window damage repair
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May 2025
flood repair
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April 2025
new fence and gate
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March 2025
rental property siding
new fence for startup house
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Teri's Garage organization
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December 2024
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November 2024
storage unit window sealing
rental property inspection
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October 2024
Soffit repair
Raised garden beds
Logo repainting
September 2024
floating plant shelf
Trellis
August 2024
Walk In Closet
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Greensboro Dr rental make ready
July 2024
tub refresh
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NY Ave rental make ready
June 2024
Quick Gate Repair
Lake Austin Remodeling
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May 2024
Chicken fence and gate
Custom door
April 2024
storage shed
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under sink hole
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fence and gate
February 2024
precision digging
kitchen and laundry room tile
RV table remodel
rental property updates
May 2020
AMS Library Expansion
AMS Fence Project
The client asked me to reproduce something they had seen in a blog post - convert a small bedroom into a large his-and-hers walk-in closet. The cabinets are Pax wardrobes from Ikea, heavily customized to look built-in. They have custom wood trim on the fronts, custom drawer fronts to match, baseboard and crown molding, all the extra holes filled with wood putty, and a final coat of primer and paint. Some of the other tasks I had to do included relocating a ceiling air conditioning register and moving the light switch from the wall to the side of one of the wardrobes.
Client used IKEA's designer to select and arrange Pax wardrobes for one side of the room...
IKEA designer for the second side.
Walk in closet, some assembly required
Removing trim from around existing closet
Trim around existing closet
First cabinet assembled and in place
Second cabinet goes in, revealing an issue with the AC vent. That will need to move.
Quick mockup of where the crown moulding will go.
Vent wasn't too bad to move. It used flex duct.
Measuring the thickness of the cabinet walls
Mockup of what door threshold would look like on the fronts.
I thought I might use quarter round in some areas. In the end, I did not.
Another shot of the vent move in progress.
Asked the client what to do about this outlet. They decided to just cut a hole in the cabinet in case they needed to access it.
Measuring outlet location
We decided to trim away he top trim to make the cabinet flush against this wall
Three cabinets assembled
First wall assembled!
On the left side of the fourth cabinet, right up against the door trim.
AC vent move, still in progress...
I don't have a table saw with me, so I improvised with my circular saw.
Ripping 2x4s for the raised base the cabinets will sit on generated a lot of sawdust.
Raised base for left side of room
More raised bases
Good, everything is lining up!
I really should have put ram board down early in the project.
Revised and adapted - the most dangerous table saw ever.
More sawdust.
Testing the left side on the raised base.
Quick demo of what the base would look like if we just imitated what was originally in the room for baseboard.
Closet top trim cut back so the cabinets are flush against the wall.
Sample for basic crown - we ended up using something nicer
Sample for basic crown - we ended up using something nicer
Three cabinets assembled for the right side
Last cabinet assembled!
This one is also flush with the wall.
The light switch was going to get covered up, so I relocated it to be inside the cabinet.
Initial wiring for the switch - this got cleaned up.
The whole room, feeling pretty crowded.
Left side assembled, cutout for outlet in place.
Outlet cutout
Test fit of the top shelf and the closet rods
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