Tuesday, February 14, 2012
revamping
I finished the cabinet that my 60 gallon fish tank will soon call home. It's sitting on it and it fits well. No water or fish yet, but the tank sits well. I must get some repairs made to the mural wall before it gets put in place for good. The fish are residing in a large cooler. Not happy fish, not. They are jumping a lot and I'm thinking I may have to lower the lid for the night so I don't get up to the whole 'fish out of water' thing. . . . . . . We thought we had some mold issues and that a board might have been damaged and need replaced, but when we got into it, the board is sound. It's not mold, but a lichen type infestation. Smells like spilt mushroom soup. I got the soap stuff that kills mold and cleaned it twice. The second time it had lost about all its smell. I have it drying now. I'm so glad we don't have to replace the board. I will have to put some of the rocks back into place tomorrow and treat and seal it -including the slate. I may have to move the fish into a larger cooler. We'll see. I also have some salt residue on my mural that must be stripped off. It's not a salt tank, but the water is old and for a while the waterfall was splashing backward. . . . . I'm ready to have it done and pretty again. I will make a few other modifications besides just making a new stand. I think it can be even better than it was. The stand has a cabinet in the bottom for keeping supplies up off the floor. Sliding panels will keep what I want hidden out of sight. I like the way it came out and am anxious to complete the revamping. It's been a hard, but good day. Blessings.
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That is going to be quite the corner when you are finished!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad it was a productive day. Mine - not so much. I bet it looks fantastic.
ReplyDeletemaybe not fantastic, but much better and 'no funky stuff growing behind the fish tank. this is a good thing.
ReplyDeletethe iron stand that it did sit on is in very bad shape. we may be able to sand blast it and use it for something. I'm thinking maybe a firewood rack by the back door. We'll see how much metal is actually left when the sandblasting is finished.
ReplyDeleteKnow it will look lovely you do good work from all I have seen an know you will use the old stand some how. :^D
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