Building stuff....

My friend Alyssa needed some help with some fix-it type stuff around her house, so the boys and I went down to her house today to see what kind of damage repairs we could do.

I loaded up the van with the necessities to get ready for my own playdate....

This is what the wall in her boys' room looked like - they had mounted a TV on the other side of the wall (in the living room) a couple of years ago and ran the wires through the wall, and the wall never got fixed. So we decided to tackle this first.

We ran to Home Depot to get stuff....

It was a squishy drive back to her house....

But we got it all in there - thank goodness her sister volunteered to take the boys out running around all afternoon!!!

Then we got to work. We put some molding around the hole in the wall, cut the plywood to fit, put some molding around that to make it, uh, pretty-ish, and then put hinges on it so that there would still be access to the wires if necessary....

We had so much fun doing it too - despite the minor bloodshed (mine - stupid drill), a few errors in measurement (also mine - I admit it), a few screws dropped into the wall (that was all Alyssa), and a few arguments with the mitre box. She has a whole list of jobs to do around the house, so we're going to see how many we can knock out over the next few weeks.

Not a bad day for a couple of amateurs - and yes, we know parts of it are crooked and mis-measured, but we were going for function, not beauty. :P