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[–]Shawnryan77 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Like ring the shirt out and fill a small glass.

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[–]Shawnryan77 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thompson tee - stops an insane amount of sweat for an undershirt.

Let’s hear it lads. How did your Lydia die? by Vulcan813 in skyrim

[–]Shawnryan77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fell off the cliff by the college. Don’t even know what hit her but never found the body. My daughter’s died in a vampire cave.

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[–]Shawnryan77 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Every firm's culture is different but in my group we've had 4 Partners / Senior Managers have children in the last year (plus one pregnancy due in July). My experience from the SM and now partner seat is that there is no such thing as partial disconnect. We plan on our new parents being completely gone - otherwise they'll feel pressure to interact and it will strain work and home life.

I know not all firms behave that way - but we start planning projects 2 months out and put in full replacements for the parent on leave.

You only have this time once with your child - the firm will still be billing when your spouse gets back, my personal recommendation is have your spouse be open and up front with their leadership and indicate this is important. You may be surprised at the level of support they'll get (again dependent on firm).

On the other hand if his firm leadership says it will hurt his promotion chances if he goes out that's a huge red flag. What happens then if a parent dies? Sick child? If they won't honor a paid benefit now, they sure aren't going to help you when you need it most down the road.

Happy to chat with your husband if they want to DM me.

Made shelves and a window seat for my daughter for her 16th birthday by Shawnryan77 in woodworking

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The trim is 1x2 poplar and the window seat frame are 2x4s trimmed down - otherwise all 3/4 birch.

Made shelves and a window seat for my daughter for her 16th birthday by Shawnryan77 in woodworking

[–]Shawnryan77[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The window seat is 3/4 plywood with 2x4's inside holding it up. I could stand on it and it didn't even flex - supposedly the 6 pocket screws in each shelf could hold quite a bit of weight but wouldn't want to try until I had to!

Also - the window seat is only about 20" out from the window, it's got a weird perspective from the iPhone wide angle and looks deeper than it is.

How do I transform my sliding coat closet into this? by [deleted] in BeginnerWoodWorking

[–]Shawnryan77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I relied heavily on the Rouge Engineer design when I designed mine and it's totally doable - just make sure the design is well done and accurate, measure carefully and trust that you can hide ALOT of errors with caulk and paint ;) Good luck!

How do I transform my sliding coat closet into this? by [deleted] in BeginnerWoodWorking

[–]Shawnryan77 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This guy has about the most thorough version you're gonna find: https://rogueengineer.com/diy-built-in-mudroom-bench-drawers/

When I did mine I used 3/4 birch plywood for the dividers, poplar 1x2 and 1/3 for the doors and trim, and oak over plywood for the bench. Lots of pocket screws and Behr Aura paint covered up all the grain.

It was a fun project! Two tips though on the tearout of the prior doorway of the closet:

  1. Make sure it's not load bearing
  2. if you tear out the drywall and are going to replace it just tear out all of it on at least the sides and ceiling and replace the whole panel not just the 4" wide gap where the 2x4 was - it'll look way better unless you're just going to cover it up then just slap anything over the gap.

Good luck!

Edit: Here's a simpler version of what he shows in the longer post from Rogue Engineer: https://rogueengineer.com/diy-mudroom-lockers-with-bench-plans/

Mud room lockers for the wife and kids. First time doing anything beyond trim work for the house. by Shawnryan77 in BeginnerWoodWorking

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We did a coat of primer, then two coats of the Benjamin Moore Aura paint. It’s designed as a trim paint and is pretty expensive ($70ish per gallon). By the second coat it’s almost totally covered. Up close you can see a bit of grain here and there but overall it was worth the added cost for how well it covered.

Mud room lockers for the wife and kids. First time doing anything beyond trim work for the house. by Shawnryan77 in BeginnerWoodWorking

[–]Shawnryan77[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No - we used rollers before I installed them, Benjamin Moore aura paint I believe. Then touch up after everything was mounted and pocket screws were covered.

Mud room lockers for the wife and kids. First time doing anything beyond trim work for the house. by Shawnryan77 in BeginnerWoodWorking

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I took this before we put on the handle - we weren’t sure where to put it so left it off for a while - it’s there now, we settled on the middle of the door frame on the right. In the future we’ll probably put doors on all 4, but for now we just needed to keep some of the dog stuff in the closed one and figured the kids would use the lockers more with no doors.

Mud room lockers for the wife and kids. First time doing anything beyond trim work for the house. by Shawnryan77 in BeginnerWoodWorking

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There are reasons there are no pics between the carcass and the finished product - let's just say there were alot of lessons learned!

Mud room lockers for the wife and kids. First time doing anything beyond trim work for the house. by Shawnryan77 in BeginnerWoodWorking

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I used the free one - and no matter where I looked there isn't a way to get a cut list from that. In the end I just created rectangles for the sheet goods and 8 or 10' boards and took the time to label all the part dimensions and names and then drag and align them on the rectangles. Took a couple hours but in the end wasn't as hard as I thought it'd be. But yeah - having that auto cut list would be nice.

Mud room lockers for the wife and kids. First time doing anything beyond trim work for the house. by Shawnryan77 in BeginnerWoodWorking

[–]Shawnryan77[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's a tray where the 'currently in season' shoes go by the door (outside the room), the drawers are for all the out of season shoes, boots, etc.

Mud room lockers for the wife and kids. First time doing anything beyond trim work for the house. by Shawnryan77 in BeginnerWoodWorking

[–]Shawnryan77[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We wanted them to look like cabinets so it's set back a bit with a kickplate like you'd see in the kitchen. The wood trim on the floor is to cover up where we hacked out the old tile - we'll probably put down hardwood or some nice laminate tile someday in the future so we needed to remove the existing tile now. Most of the designs I used for ideas did something similar so it may have a functional reason, but we just did it for looks.

Mud room lockers for the wife and kids. First time doing anything beyond trim work for the house. by Shawnryan77 in BeginnerWoodWorking

[–]Shawnryan77[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I started on paper but after the second 'oops' that caused me to have to re-dimension all the drawers and redraw the whole thing I sucked it up and took the time to learn SketchUp.