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Sunday, March 19, 2017
Stumbling Stool
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Concrete Crevice
When the wiring was run for our hot tub, they had to cut a channel in the sidewalk next to the house. Ideally, it was supposed to be the width of a brick for an easy repair, but it was just barely too narrow. We just filled it with dirt and moved on, but the time finally came to fix it correctly.
Saturday, February 11, 2017
Bright Ideas and Clear Thinking
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Thursday, February 9, 2017
Valance Victory
We have a very complicated relationship with the vertical blinds in our dining room. We recognize that vertical blinds are generally terrible, but we didn't have a better solution for blocking the glaring sun in the morning, so we kept them. Deep down we knew we should get a valance to cover the ugly rail for the blinds, but we could never decide exactly what it should be like, so we did nothing. That all changed when we found a giant valance sitting on the curb down the street from our house.
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Front Door Facelift
This post has been a long time in the making. As you can see in the photos above, the front doors on our house were in pretty sad shape on the outside, and very golden on the inside. We wanted to do something about that for quite a while, but replacing them would be very expensive and refinishing them would be very unpleasant, so for a long time we did nothing. That changed in March of 2015 when I finally pulled the doors off the hinges and started sanding.
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Kitchen Construction Conclusion (Part 9)
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Kitchen Construction, Part 8 - Coating Cabinets
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The final step in our kitchen renovation was revamping the cabinets. They were covered in the original 70's lacquer and were showing their age. It didn't help that the cabinets had no handles, so they've been touched by dirty hands for the past ~40 years.
Since the cabinets themselves were in relatively good shape, and we didn't want to spend a fortune, we decided to just paint them and add new hardware. It took quite a bit of doing, but they came out very nicely.
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Kitchen Construction, Part 7 - One Wonderful Window
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Since we were updating everything else in the kitchen, we figured we should go ahead and replace that window now.
Monday, January 2, 2017
Kitchen Construction, Part 6 - Fabulous Flooring
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