I guess I jumped the gun on writing about the mailbox last week – it technically wasn’t finished. Monday night after work, the DW wrapped up the project with the finishing touch – planting some flowers in the planter box. For some reason, choosing flowers for our landscaping is normally harder than it needs to […]

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You’d be surprised how easy it is to adjust to a kitchen without cabinet doors and front drawer panels – especially with how nice the weather has gotten recently. But, the cold and rain last week put me back on task and I had the opportunity to finish painting some of the cabinet hardware and […]

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Spring arrived in a big way over the weekend. (So much, that the kitchen cabinets still aren’t reassembled.) It was the first warm (in the 70s) sunny weekend since September – that’s a long time. So while the kiddos made the most of the sun, I thought I’d take care of our mailbox issue. I […]

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So the DW was out of town most of last weekend for work while I was left taking care of the kiddos… of course that meant there was only one logical way to spend the weekend – I rounded up some help and attacked the kitchen. The DW and I agree that while our main […]

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I haven’t said much lately about the work we’ve been doing on the house. The obvious reason is because we haven’t been doing much, but that’s not entirely true. We’ve been… orchestrating. Let me explain. Before we ever moved in, we knew the house would need more insulation. It’s a basic fact – hundred year […]

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From the basement to the attic, there’s 30 windows in the house. For better or worse, most of them have been replaced a time or two along the way and every time the wind blows I can’t wait to replace them all again. That is with one exception… in the dinning room there’s a monster […]

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Since Peanut can’t make public appearances due to the risk of catching a bug, she and I hung out on Sunday while the DW and the rest of the kiddos went to Sissy’s dance recital. I hadn’t had a chance to get back to the stuck pocket door and was eyeing up the project when […]

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I forgot to mention with all the excitement of the dining room floor that when we tore the carpet out of the dining room it also meant that we’d finally be able to see the pocket doors between the living room and dining room. With the carpet out of the way the doors should be […]

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After yesterday’s post showing the “new” floor I figured today was a good time to back up and take a look at how the room has changed since we moved in. Here’s what things looked like during our walk through before closing (The owner was still moving a few things out.) It’s hard to tell […]

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We were told when we first moved in that some of the carpets covered hardwood floors, but the condition of the floors was unknown. We lucked out in our room and Sissy’s room. We simply rolled up the old carpet (there wasn’t even a tack strip) and with a little scrubbing uncovered some beautiful floors. […]

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