Today I did Guy Stuff! < grunt >
The wife has a stained glass window decoration of an angel she designed and created decades ago. It used to be in a window of our home in Houston. I always thought it was connected to the window frame or wall somehow, but it turns out that it was just leaning against the window. Surprisingly, it made it through a number of hurricanes over the years and nothing happened to it.
Getting it moved to the new house was also a challenge. It was well wrapped in padded blankets and packing tape for its trip in the moving van. The movers were very careful with it. It made the transition to our new home in one piece.
Now, I had the task of getting it hung in the bedroom window of our new house. No pressure, right? The stained glass was carefully unwrapped and set aside prior to hanging.
I had to hunt down my drill so I could make some holes in the picture frame and the window frame. I finally found it and prepared to do some drilling. I’d previously gotten hooks from the local hardware store.
I very carefully measured where I was going to put the hooks on the picture frame, then drilled pilot holes so I could then screw the hooks on to it. Then I carefully measured where I would need to drill holes in the window frame so the hooks there would match the hooks on the frame. I screwed the hooks into the widow frame. Then came the moment of truth.
I lifted the stained glass angel, then struggled a bit to get the hooks to all match up. In the end I was victorious, able to get the hooks to go around each other. Everything lined up, the wife is pleased, and I didn’t break her piece of fragile art.
Next, she had a jewelry cabinet, a present from her daughter a number of years ago. The wife never got around to hanging it up and using it in Texas, so she wanted it hung up here.
The darn thing is heavy. It required screw mounts to be placed in the wall first, before putting the screw in that the cabinet would hang on. Fortunately the local hardware has very knowledgeable employees. The guy there was able to help me pick out the right ones to use. Armed with my tools and parts I got to work.
Once again, a lot of careful measuring was done up front. It was tricky holding the cabinet up against the wall so the wife could determine the best placement, then trying to mark the wall with pencil but I got it done. More careful measurements and marks to make sure the screws would be in the right placement for the mounting holes in the back of the cabinet.
One again, I pulled out the drill to make some pilot holes for the screw mounts. That went well, as did screwing the mounts into the wall. Getting the screws into the mounts was more of a challenge and took some brute strength to get them in place.
Then came the tricky part. The mounting holes on the back of the cabinet had to match up with the screws on the wall. In addition, I couldn’t see the danged things as I tried to get the holes and screws to line up so I could hang the cabinet. It took about fifteen minutes of trial and error, as well as some choice curse words on my part, but in the end the cabinet was hung.
I managed to get both of them hung up without breaking either one. Yay me!
After that I hung a few more pictures and we called it a day. Then I got a well-deserved fifteen minute nap.
I hope all your projects are going well, my Hordeling.
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