Renovation

Pocket Door Hardware – Quite the decision!

02.02.2012

When my dad came in September/October, we decided to tackle some pocket doors. I guess I kinda like doors since we replaced the front door and side door of the house with Dutch doors. For interior doors, our house is so small any wall space is valuable, so I knew pocket doors would be great [...]

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Things are a Changin’

09.30.2011

Naturally, when you don’t post for months, a few things change. We are in the middle of quite  few projects… We lost our beloved Fozzy Bear too quickly to bronchial carcinoma (mentioned here). His collar and bandana have been retired and have a place in the center of our gallery wall. We started looking for [...]

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Living Room Progress

04.11.2011

I realize I never posted an update on the living room after I started removing the texture. I still need to share what I did one weekend while Brian was out of town – when I was supposed to be studying for a midterm! (I’m a little behind in posts…) We’ve been enjoying having the [...]

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Reality TV Stars: To be or not to be?

03.15.2011

Remember waaaay back when we applied to be on a new TV show by TLC called Our House? We celebrated when we got the call that they would come film us for our in person interview, and came up with a list of how we could spend their $25k improving our humble abode. Well, today [...]

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Living Room & Kitchen Progress

02.23.2011

It’s been two weeks since I impulsively started scraping our walls, and we now are proud to unveil newly plastered living room walls!  Our handyman finished on Monday and we are just waiting for the plaster to thoroughly dry before we prime and paint the walls. Right now, we have the TV mounted on the [...]

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May I suggest…

02.14.2011

When you start a project that is as time consuming as my wall scraping and subsequent wall skimming (to texture over the plaster and smooth out the numerous cracks), may I suggest that you still have it quoted even if you have an idea in your mind that it will simply be too expensive? Case [...]

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Wall Scraping

02.10.2011

I got a little urge last night – and I’m pretty impulsive – so Brian came home to me scraping the texture from our living room wall. I didn’t even get halfway done with one wall but we already agree it looks better —  even with the roughness and various colors. Luckily my bloody knuckles [...]

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DIY Kitchen Remodel

11.05.2010

When we bought this house, we had no idea what we were getting into (this photo is the day of our home inspection while the previous tenant was moving out).  The night we got keys, we brought sleeping bags over to the house, planning a late night of choosing paint colors, but ended instead with us celebrating [...]

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What would you do with $25k?

11.03.2010

There’s a new show called “Our House” being launched on TLC. They offer homeowners $25,000 and just three weeks to DIY anything to the interior of your home. Brian and I applied last week when we saw the casting call and we talked to someone from the show for quite some time this evening. When [...]

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Guest Bathroom

11.02.2010

While I dream of redoing the cracked and uneven tile floor by continuing our wood floors seamlessly into the bathroom (I know many don’t recommend wood floors in the bathroom) and putting in a “real” shower with tile (instead of the cheesy plastic panels basically glued onto drywall), this is how far our guest bathroom [...]

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Office Sneak Peek

11.01.2010

I’ve been working on the office the past two weekends, and it’s definitely coming together.  I found a fabric I think I’ll be using for the curtain and I think it brings it all together – a sample is hanging from the blind so I can envision it.  Here’s a sneak peek!  The quatrefoil stencil is [...]

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