Today, we finally did it--we took the first step in a DIY home repair project. Back in 2003 a good friend of ours, Alan Jensen, built the front stairs to our house as he watched airplanes drop fire retardant on the mountainside. A few days before we moved in, a homeless man started a fire several hundred feet from our home. Thankfully, no homes were destroyed, but it was scary.
Fast forward sixteen and a half years. Thousands upon thousands of foot falls up and down those stairs, every bit of furniture we have, almost every scrap of food, almost every time anyone has come and gone to and from our house has been on those stairs, five steps up, five steps down.
The wood we used to build those steps have served their purpose well.
It's time to retire them.
This morning we loaded up the minivan with wood, paint, and other things we'll need for the project. In those almost seventeen years, we haven't done a lot of DIY projects, which is weird considering how much sweat equity we put into the house. We did that mostly for practical purposes--not a lot of money. And I suppose you could say we're building stairs on our own now and haven't done it sooner for the same reason. We can't really put it off any longer, though. It's time.
Tomorrow, we'll break out the power tools and get to work. And since I will need something to write about tomorrow, I'm sure I'll keep you posted on how Project Stair Repair turns out.
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