How to Clean Aquarium Glass Easier
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Cleaning on the Outside
In the event that you are going to adequately make your fish tank glass look stunning, at that point you need to clean both inside and outside.
Cleaning outwardly is a lot more straightforward than within. You would not need to stress over the cleaning arrangement influencing the fish.
Here is the way you clean outwardly of your fish tank glass.
Utilizing warm water, continue to wet delicate material or some paper towels.
With your wet fabric, wipe outwardly of the aquarium glass to expel the soil development on the glass. In the event that the earth is difficult, utilize a tad of cleanser to guarantee that it conveys the best cleaning impact.
You would now be able to wash the glass with a clean delicate material to expel the abundance cleanser on the glass all things considered. Leaving any buildup of the cleanser will simply wind up pulling in more residue and soil sooner rather than later.
As should be obvious, cleaning outwardly can be basic, it ought to likewise be basic too when hoping to clean within sheet.
Utilizing a Simple Sponge Method
You would be astonished to realize that cleaning your aquarium glass will require straightforward apparatuses you have in the house as of now.
You need to purchase a froth kitchen wipe. The wipe ought not have any scouring cleaner added to it. The cleaner may wind up scratching the glass in the event that it is available together with the wipe.
Here is the manner by which you clean the glass with a wipe.
Evacuate your fish tank spread to increase better access to within glass sheet.
The cleaning should do delicately. Supplement your hand tenderly into the aquarium and reach for the glass. Continue to slide the wipe here and there to clean the green growth and other earth that may have collected on the sides.
You ought to maintain a strategic distance from any quick cleaning developments or else you would wind up spilling the water over the top causing the cleaning to be chaotic.
Since you have cleaned the tank, the wipe can't be reused sometime in the not too distant future to clean the aquarium window once more.
Utilizing an Algae Scraper Tool
With the headway in different fields, at that point you can hope to discover numerous methods for cleaning your fish tank glass. For this part, we get the opportunity to take a gander at how you can utilize a green growth scrubber instrument to clean the sheet leaving everything clean.
The main thing you need to do is locate the best green growth scrubber for your aquarium. Two or three such devices exist today, so set aside the effort to look at a few models before deciding on one.
Whichever strategy you choose to pick, it is anything but difficult to see that they are on the whole simple to utilize. You need to ensure that you adhere to the offered guidelines to ensure that you don't wind up scratching the glass.
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2020 Year In Review
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I think it goes without saying that 2020 didn’t work out quite like I had planned. I’m pretty sure most of us could say that. I started out the year with all kinds of projects planned for the year (you can see my 2020 Master List of Home Goals here), and when all was said and done, I only managed to get a tiny fraction of things on that list started, with even fewer of them actually finished. I also added a pretty significant weeks-long project that I hadn’t planned on doing at the beginning of the year — my mom’s kitchen makeover. So really, I got more done that my original list would indicate. But overall, I’d say that 2020 was my least productive year since I started blogging about my DIY projects. That’s okay. It was a strange and hard year, and I’ll cut myself some slack. So here’s a quick review of what I actually did get done this last year. Music Room First, I painted the bookcases and doors in the music room. The bookcases were white and the doors were black… And I both the bookcases and doors in the music room the same dark […]
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A Sad Goodbye And A Good Riddance To 2020
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Happy New Year, y’all! We made it. 2020 is officially in our rear view mirror, and I couldn’t be happier about that. But that dreadful year couldn’t just go quietly at the end. It took my grandmother — my last remaining grandparent — with it. I’ve mentioned her several times before in previous posts, so those of you who have been around for a while may remember me writing about her. Her grandchildren called her Mernie. She was an amazing woman, a force of nature, and a huge influence on my life. This was her on her 104th birthday. Mernie was born in 1912, and died last Tuesday, December 29, at the age of 108. It’s hard to even imagine everything she saw and experienced over her 108 years, having been born before indoor plumbing was common and outhouses were the norm, and before cars were common, and before most houses had electricity and were still being lighted with kerosene lamps and heated with wood stoves. She had such amazing and funny stories to tell of her childhood, dating my grandfather, and life in general over her 108 years. People often ask me how I got into building and DIY […]
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The Clouds Have Parted, The Sunlight Is Back
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Good morning, all! I’m still working towards my goal of getting my house all clean and ready to go for the new year, and things are moving along pretty well now. I started off the week still dragging my feet and working pretty slowly and reluctantly just because the task at hand seemed so huge. But yesterday I started to see some major progress, and that got me excited and motivated to work even harder and faster to get it all done. I won’t show you how my house started off, because while I try to be pretty open and transparent, I’m not willing to open myself up to that level of ridicule. 😀 Just suffice it to say that over the last few months, the condition of my house became worse than it has ever been. I’m the only person in this house who has the ability to pick up, clean, and organize. So when I pretty much stopped doing those things, there was no one else to pick up the slack until I got my act together again. So while I won’t show you all of the mess, I’ll give you a glimpse into the kind of craziness […]
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A Few Steps Forward
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This week hasn’t been quite as productive as I had hoped, but the good news is that I’m actually starting to feel excited about house-related stuff again! I had my consultation for my tooth (I have to get a dental implant, in case you missed that) on Tuesday. I so appreciate all of your comments sharing your own experiences! I’ve never had this done before, so I was expecting it to be similar to having my wisdom teeth out. But by the time I had my appointment, I had already read many of your comments telling me that this will be much easier than having wisdom teeth out, so I was feeling pretty calm by the time I arrived for my appointment. I go back for the actual procedure on December 22nd, and I’m not feeling the least bit anxious about it anymore. So thank you! Reading about your experiences really helped me know what to expect, and to feel pretty calm about the whole thing. Anyway, Wednesdays are Lunch On The Patio with my mom, brother, and sister. We’ve been doing this every Wednesday for about a year-and-a-half. Everyone brings their own steaks, I grill them, and then we […]
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One More Month
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Okay, y’all. I’m back. I didn’t quite mean to be gone that long, but I just needed to check out for a while. Are any of you feeling like 2020 has been using us as punching bag? That’s kind of how I feel. And then when our precious Peeve (our 17-year-old calico) died, that was the final gut punch to finish me off. Matt didn’t handle it so well, either. And when he has some sort of emotional trauma, it affects him a thousand times more than it does us relatively healthy, able-bodied people. M.S. is a strange thing like that. So when that happens to him, he requires much more of my time and attention. And to cap off this epically strange and horrible year, I learned that I have to have oral surgery to have a dental implant. A tooth with a decades-old root canal and filling gave way and cracked completely in two, so now I have to have it removed and replaced. What a perfect way to cap off this year, huh? But I’ve decided that as much as I’d love to completely check out and drown myself in sleep, food, and Hallmark movies for the […]
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Heartbroken (R.I.P., Peeve)
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Y’all, I’m absolutely heartbroken. Last Tuesday, Matt and I had to say goodbye to our precious 17-year-old calico, Peeve. She was a little 5-pound cat with a 1000-pound personality, and our home feels so empty without her. Matt and I got her on our one-year wedding anniversary during a weekend trip to the Oregon coat. We hadn’t planned on getting a cat, but as we walked around in that small coastal town, we spotted a pet store and stopped in. I’ve never been a “pet store” kind of person, but when I laid eyes on this tiny little calico cat, she stole my heart and I had to have her. They kept her for us until we were ready to head back home since we couldn’t keep her in the bed and breakfast where we were staying. So on our way out of town, we swung by and picked up our new kitten. And then she proceeded to SCREAM AT THE TOP OF HER LUNGS all the way home — for 90 straight minutes. 😀 Several times during that trip, I looked at Matt with these SCREAMING kitten on my shoulder and asked, “What the heck have we done? What […]
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Lamp Makeover & Framed Wall-Mount TV Finishing Details
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I’m almost at the finish line on this guest bedroom makeover, and I’m focusing on all of the final little finishing touches. I wanted a lamp to go on the dresser, but instead of buying a new one, I decided to use one I already had. It was a cute little lamp, and there was really nothing wrong with it at all. It just seemed a little dull for the room. So I jazzed it up with some new clean white and gold paint and golden yellow fabric for the lamp shade. I had originally purchased this lamp to use in the hallway bathroom, and I used it in there for quite a while. But then when I did the colorful makeover on that bathroom in 2019, it didn’t really go in there anymore, so it went into my stash of extra stuff. So I got it out to use in this room. Many time, I can just tape off different areas of a lamp to paint them. But since this one had that glass section with the interesting shape sitting on the metal base, I didn’t think I could tape it off good enough to get really sharp lines […]
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I Think I May Have Been Crazy
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I have one more main project to do before the guest bedroom is finished. I still have to sew the draperies. Other than that, it’s just a few touch ups, some accessorizing, and then it’s done! But this past weekend, I was at the point of the project where I was starting to feel like it’ll never be done. Honestly, I’ve been at that point for a couple of weeks now. And when I reach that point in a project, I start to question if I’m ever going to get this house done. And then I start to question what the heck I’ve even accomplished in the first place since we bought this house. Since I live in this house day after day, and I only experience the gradual changes each day, sometimes it’s hard to remember exactly what I started out with. So last night, I took a trip down memory lane to encourage myself, and remember exactly what this house looked like when we signed the papers and were handed the key. I’ll never forget walking through the house the first time with my mom. She looked at me with the most concerned look on her face and […]
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DIY Framed Full Length Mirror
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I crossed one more project off of the list for the guest bedroom. The full-length mirror is framed and ready to hang on the wall. I had mentioned the possibility of using yellow on the TV frame, but I decided to use it on this much thinner frame instead. I still need to hang the mirror, and to do that, I’ll use a Hangman mirror hanger. Those are the only things I’ll use to hang large and/or heavy items on my walls. But let’s get to the framing process. I started by cutting a piece of 1/2-inch plywood (that I already had on hand and has been stored outside, which is why it looks like it’s seen better days 😀 ) to the dimensions of my mirror, plus about 1/16th inch in both directions. Next, I used my table saw to cut some lumber to the thickness that I wanted for the frame. I started with a 1″ x 3″ piece of lumber, and cut it into pieces that are about 3/8″ x 1-1/4″. Using 1.5″ 18-gauge nails and wood glue, I attached those pieces to the edges of the plywood. You can see above that I did not miter […]
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Easy DIY Acrylic Artwork (Guest Bedroom Progress)
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I needed some artwork to go on the TV wall in the bedroom, so naturally, I made my own. I kept it super simple, and this is something almost anyone can do. This is the wall that needed the artwork… I didn’t want to take a lot of time or spend a lot of money on this, so I pretty much used what I had on hand, with the exception of one sample size of yellow paint. I already had four of my favorite white frames from Target on hand (you can find those frames here), so I decided to do four pieces of artwork so that I could hang two on each side of the TV. I didn’t even bother to do this artwork on separate sheets of art paper. The backs of the frames are very thick and smooth cardboard, so I just painted right on them! 😀 I started by brushing on a couple of coats of water-based primer… And then I brushed on two coats of my background color. I used the same paint that I used as the background on the feature wall. I brushed each coat in opposite directions, letting the first dry completely […]
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One Closet Finished, One To Go
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I finally started tackling the single remaining project I was dreading the most — finishing the interiors of the closets. I got one of them finished, and still have one to go. And while the project itself wasn’t that exciting, there’s something about finally being able to move my stuff into the room that takes it from being just a fun room to decorate to being an actual bedroom. If you’re new around here, let me explain. This bedroom is actually the guest bedroom. But for now, Matt and I will move in there and use it as our main bedroom until we are able to do the addition on the back of our house that will include a master suite, laundry/utility room, and family room. After closing off the original closet in this room and adding that space to the adjoining room (which will be our home gym eventually), I needed to carve out some space from the bedroom for new closets. I built two closets flanking the window. To save space, I used sliding doors instead of hinged doors. So the exteriors of the closets have been finished for a while, but the insides still needed attention. Here’s […]
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Finished Guest Bedroom Bedding (Plus, What’s Left To Do To Finish This Room)
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The bedding for the guest bedroom is finished! I read through all of your comments, and got inspiration from some of the suggestions. Many people suggested that I use both of the blue fabrics, and there were several different suggestions on how I could do that. A couple of people suggested that I try the strie fabric with the pattern going horizontally. And then someone linked this pretty blue, yellow and white pillow. I loved it, but I really wanted to use what I had on hand, so I used it as inspiration for how to piece together the fabric I had. This is how it turned out… Now that the bedding is finished, I have a few more projects to wrap up, some touchups to do, and then I need to bring in all of the finishing touches. The biggest project still left undone is the finishing of the closet interiors. It’s not an exciting project at all (which is why I’ve been dragging my feet on it), but obviously it needs to be done for these closets to be useful. And then the other big project is sewing the draperies. But now that I’ve been sewing for a […]
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Guest Bedroom Bedding Progress and Pillow Fabric Options
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My trim for the guest bedroom bedding finally arrived, so I was able to finish up the quilt and two pillow shams yesterday. I still have three more pillows that I need to sew, so the bedding isn’t quite finished yet. I’ll show you the options for the other pillows later in this post, but here’s what I actually have finished so far… I ordered this quilt set from Overstock in a king size to use for the actual quilt, and then I bought a twin size to use to make matching pillow shams. I ordered a king size, even though the bed is a queen size, because I wanted to be able to customize it to the precise size I wanted. So naturally, the king size was way too big… Before I did any cutting and resizing, I washed it, which made the fabric so incredibly soft. I’m very happy with this quilt. It’s not too heavy, not too lightweight, and super soft. I also like the very simple stitching. So after washing it and then spreading it out on the bed… I determined exactly how much I wanted it to hang down on each side, and then started […]
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A Peek At The Guest Bedroom Bedding (and How I Salvaged A Big Mistake)
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I took a few days away from working on the guest bedroom (and anything else house-related) because I reached a point where I was having trouble finding things I needed — things I’m used to purchasing locally and never having trouble finding. I presume because supply lines are being affected by COVID, things that I assumed would always be a short car drive away whenever I needed them are now getting harder and harder to find. Have you noticed this as well? So I’ve kind of been in a holding pattern the last few days as I wait for things to arrive, and in the meantime, I’ve spent a few days working on some not-so-blogworthy things around the house. I had hoped to have my draperies done by now. Last Friday, I headed to Joann Fabrics to pick up lining so that I’d be prepared to spend the weekend sewing. But there’s no white mid-weight drapery lining to be found locally. It as a little shocking to see that entire section of the store completely bare. I even had a hard time finding what I needed online, and finally had to settle for a brand that I’ve never used before. […]
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Would You Ever AirBNB A Room In Your Home?
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Would you ever list an unused bedroom in your home on AirBNB or similar site? This is something I’ve been contemplating as I’m trying to get the guest bedroom finished. I absolutely love how this room is turning out, and that’s even without the bedding and decorative touches. I think when it’s finished, it might be one of my favorite rooms I’ve ever done. And while this will be our actual main bedroom for the foreseeable future, there will come a time when we’ll have our new master bedroom and bathroom, and this will be an actual guest bedroom that sits unused most of the year. I don’t like the idea of such a nice bedroom (if I may say so myself 😀 ) sitting unused. So the idea crossed my mind that I could list it on AirBNB. I thought it might be a safe choice because, as I understand it, guests are rated as well on sites like AirBNB. I actually think the layout of our house would be very conducive to hosting guests. While the guest bedroom isn’t a suite with its own private bathroom, it may as well be. The hallway bathroom is just right there, […]
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A Few Guest Bedroom Updates
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I’m continuing to make progress on the guest bedroom, and while I don’t have any major projects to share with you today, I do have a few updates I wanted to share. First, remember how I got a new mattress, and then it didn’t fit into our existing bed frame because it was about an inch or two too wide, and about an inch too long? I love this new mattress (you can find it here) so I wasn’t willing to return it. I had to find a way to make it work. This is a bed frame that I made several years ago soon after we moved into this house. If you missed that project, you can find it here… DIY Stained Wood Raised Platform Bed And if you missed the headboard project, you can find that here… DIY Wood Framed Upholstered Headboard I designed the original bed so that the mattress fit down into the frame just over three inches. I liked this design because (1) the mattress I designed it for was a 17 inch mattress, which is ridiculously high, and (2) I liked that it prevented the mattress from shifting around and kept it secure in […]
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Dresser Makeover – Before & After (A Dark Stained Dresser Painted Blue)
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Remember the new dresser I bought for the guest bedroom? It was the perfect size, and the perfect configuration. (I really loved that 9-drawer configuration.) But the color was…well…it left a lot to be desired for me. That dark finish was fine, but I’m much more of a painted wood kind of person. And with a stained bed and a stained writing desk in the room already, another large stained piece of furniture was just too much for me. So I painted it the same blue that I used on the opposite mural wall. Here it is dressed in its new color… Ahhhh, yes. This is so much more me, right? I just love how it turned out! The color I used is a custom color that I had mixed to use as the base color for the mural wall. You can see the formula here… So let me walk you through the steps that I took to paint this dresser. How to paint a stained wood dresser: 1. Sand the original finish. This dresser was new with a very shiny factory finish on it. So I started by sanding the whole thing by hand with 220-grit sandpaper. This helps […]
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Guest Bedroom — Second-Guessing The Bed Decision
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Well, y’all, I’m second-guessing my decision on the bed in the guest bedroom. Let me explain. My original plan was to use the bed that I built many years ago, and upholster it with golden yellow velvet to make it look something like this… Of course, I love the boldness of the color and the contrast with the wall. So on Tuesday, I dragged the bed frame into the room, and after a trip to Joann Fabric and Home Depot for supplies, I got started on upholstering the base. But I didn’t get very far, and then I spent yesterday with my mom, so I didn’t any work done at all. When I got home early yesterday evening, I decided to drag the headboard into the bedroom also. I hadn’t planned to use the headboard at all. That headboard already has a lot of trim (glued on with wood glue), as well as an upholstered panel on the front. Spending time and energy removing all of that in order to reupholster it seems like a waste when I can just sell or give it away, and then start fresh with a new piece of plywood. But out of curiosity, I […]
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Converting Wall Sconces From Hardwire To Plug-In
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The little nook between the built-in closets in the bedroom has new sconces. I had originally planned to build a window seat in this area, but I have now decided to put a small writing desk in this nook. So the nook needed some lighting, and these dimmable brass sconces were just what I needed. The price was great, and I love the simple design and the tall shades. Because I was installing them on the sides of the built-in closets (which still aren’t finished inside), and they needed to be plugged into the outlets inside the closets, I purchased hardwired sconces and converted them into plug-in sconces. I purchased these dimmable remote-controlled light controls — one for each sconce — along with two of these very inexpensive indoor extension cords. Then I measured and marked for the placement of the sconce on the outside of the closet. These sconces had the two decorative nuts that hold the sconce to the plate. So I removed the mounting plate, leaving the long screws attached, and then used a level to get the mounting plate just right. Then I used a pencil to mark placement. The mounting screws (i.e., the screws that […]
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Guest Bedroom — Furniture and Fabric Selections
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The first pieces of furniture are in the guest bedroom! The nightstands arrived yesterday, and I got to work putting them together. Here are the ones I chose… This is the Westerleigh 1-Drawer Nightstand from AllModern. It looks like they’re sold out of the white right now, but they still have it in gray and pink. It was really quite easy to put together, but I did have to uninstall and reinstall the drawer slides (which came pre-installed) on both of them because they drawer front wouldn’t line up properly in the opening. That was a bit annoying, but it wasn’t difficult. Anyway, I draped the golden yellow velvet headboard fabric over a cardboard box just to get an idea of what it’ll look like… This is the Majesty Velvet in gold from Fabric.com, and it’s really gorgeous and soft. I can’t wait to get the bed upholstered and the new headboard made! I mentioned yesterday that I will probably build a dresser for the room. I feel like the room needs the warmth of some stained wood, which I have in the other rooms with the hardwood floor. But since this room has a painted floor, I’ll have to […]
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DIY Painted Hardwood Floor – Offset Striped Design – Finished!
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My guest bedroom painted hardwood floor with the offset striped design is finally finished! I got three coats of clear coat on the floor on Tuesday, left it alone to dry for about 24 hours, and then installed the shoe molding yesterday afternoon. If you missed the first part of this project, you can find that post here… DIY Painted Hardwood Floor – Offset Striped Design – Part 1 And here’s how it turned out… I explained in the previous post how I marked and taped off the stripes, so you can find those details there. (Find the link at the top of this post.) After getting all of the stripes painted, I went back and did any necessary touchups, and then let those dry for a couple of hours. Then I was ready for the clear coat. To clear coat this floor, I used Varathane Water-Based Polyurethane Floor Finish in a matte finish. To apply it, I used a 5-inch stain and waterproofing brush, and I attached it to the end of an extension pole. I simply dipped the brush into the can of polyurethane, and brushed it right on to the floor. There were no other materials or […]
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