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Welcome to Handymeg, a site filled with my many projects and passions.  You will find the good, the bad and the crazy along the way.  Maybe it will ignite your own passion too!

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Murphy beds/Exercise room

I have finally finished yet another complete transformation from a dull, white room into a multipurpose beauty! Here's the before... The...

Bay Window Banquette

This one has been on my mind for years! I had already built a window seat in the dining room but for the kitchen, I wanted to make...

Bathroom Vanity

I helped a friend renovate her basement to create a small apartment. There were a lot of moving parts and the bathroom included several....

Outlet additions

I'm working on renovating an entire room in my basement that includes a lot of projects to tackle. When we moved in, the room had a wall...

More Door Fun!

In the basement renovation I'm working on for my friend, there is a creepy space under the stairs that was covered with just a curtain...

Door in the wall!

I have two kiddos in rooms next to each other with a walk-in closet between them. There's a bathroom between them too which made this...

Pantry Redo!

Oh my. This is way up there in the favorites section of projects I've worked on. The before and after is quite dramatic. This job was...

A Laundry Room I want to spend time in

Oh gosh. This one took me a long time. Mostly, I just couldn't wrap my mind around what I wanted to do with this bland space. This is...

Bathroom rearrangement

The bathroom in our walkout basement was laid out in a super odd way. It's not located at the main drain stack. They installed plumbing...

Musical Cabinets

What are your thoughts on built-in desks in the kitchen? I always think I'm going to use them. They seem so convenient. In reality,...

Blank wall to fireplace wall

The back of our house gets tons of sunshine. That sun can heat up the main floor to a pretty high temperature. Even in the winter, it...

Game Room Lighting

The room we are using for our game room is right inside the front door. It's meant to be a formal living room/dining room. We have no...

Room Decor

Well, it only took me 10 months to hang something on a wall in our new house. Every time I walked past the boxes of pictures and...

Door Flip!

Doors that open into things or into other doors is one of my pet peeves. I suppose it's a flow issue for me but it's just so frustrating....

Closet Built-ins Phase 1

I have a friend who has a big need for storage. His master bedroom closet is oversized, so we thought adding shelving in there would be...

Bifold to French Doors

I hate bifold doors. They certainly have their place and there are times when they are necessary. When they're not necessary, I'd...

Pot Lights to Pendant Lights

Pot lights are awesome lighting for the kitchen. I always thought the more, the better. Then we moved into our current house and I...

Alcoves to Cabinets

There's something about alcoves that just screams 90s to me. Add in the rounded corners and it's obvious the space was designed decades...

New Mantle

For 8 and a half months, I've been staring at the strange alcoves and mantle in the living room knowing I needed to do something to...

Grandma needs a door

The living space, or mother-in-law suite, that we created for grandma is just the rear portion of the finished basement. To give her a...

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