Pinterest Tips: Fact or Fiction?

When I am killing time getting inspired on Pinterest, I always run across tips and tricks for this or that.  I ALWAYS wonder if they actually work.

So over the last couple of weekends, I decided to try some out.

1.  The perpetual green onion

The tip is to put your cut bunch of green onions in a glass after they are cut.  They regrow so you always have green onions for your recipes.

FACT!

I cut this bunch of onions last week and they are already starting to re-grow.

Last I Checked a Square Is Not a Circle

One of our ongoing projects is replacing the mismatched doorknobs in our house.  At last count we still have at least four different mismatched brass doorknobs types. 

These, we believe, are original to the house.

standard 70s issue

At some point a couple of these were installed.

I do like the braid detail on this one

As were some of these.

Close match but no cigar

And finally, a few of these. This is one of the few I have managed to swap out.

Pretty blah, don't you think?

Aren't they all just lovely?

Slowly but surely all are being replaced by this style.

So much better looking, don't you think?  Current count:  3 replaced with 9 to go, not including the front and back doors to the house.  

But as I am replacing the knobs, I am finding that a quick swaparoo isn't always possible.  Not when you have holes like this

and this. 

Last I checked a square wasn't a circle and wasn't standard issue when installing a doorknob. 

Sigh!  So that means that I will be adding a hole saw like the one below to our inventory of "tools we didn't anticipate needing to buy to finish a project."

Discovery! Why We Have No Squeaky Floors!

When we were laying the new bamboo flooring in the office, we made a discovery.  Not a bad one, like many of our discoveries (the nonfunctioning dishwasher is one that springs to mind), but a pleasant one.

We have 1 inch plus thick plywood for our subfloors.   (We decided to not try to figure out why there was a big hole cut into the floor of the office.  Sometimes it just isn't possible to get into the mind of the previous owner.)

With this discovery, we now know why it was so difficult to get the phone line from the basement to the office (post on this to come in the coming weeks), why the house is so quiet and why we do not have a single squeaky floorboard in the entire house. 

Here's hoping we make more good discoveries as we continue to Claim Our Space.