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I’ve been busy as a beaver working on my home and (yesterday and) today the focus was the dining room. A couple of months ago, I kind of goofed: I tried to touch up the paint in the dining room… Only I used the wrong paint, and didn’t realize it until it dried. And then [...]
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Inquiring minds have been wanting to know… The bathroom before: And after… Look! There’s a toilet! And a shower curtain. And baseboard. Which you can’t see, but it’s just as well. Because I still need to touch it up with some paint. But it’s major progress. And it looks put together, which is the main [...]
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My friends Lucy and Bill once told me about a friend of theirs who came and lived with them a short time to help them with some projects on their fixer-upper. They had just bought an old home in rural Ohio –parts of it were over 100 years old. But additions had been made over [...]
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Hmm… You might notice a few things are missing. Like the base board, some quarter round, some grout in the tile… Oh, and a TOILET and some TILE ON THE WALL. You know, little things. This is a problem because we need to sell this house. Yes, we are moving. Surprise! Anyone wanna buy a [...]
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The kids and I are getting ready to wrap up visiting family this whole week in Kansas, where I grew up. We all spent Easter at my sister Cheri’s who has this awesome covered back porch that served as our conversation area on that beautiful afternoon. *Side note: Wind and Humidity are regular companions on [...]
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Excuse me while I dig up the dead horse to beat it yet again, but snow has thrust itself into the Common Theme category around here and I just can’t escape it. The driveway is buried in there, somewhere. At least the city plowed the street overnight… Live Update: Number of School Snow Days: 3 [...]
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I decided it’d be better not to wait for it to stop snowing before getting a head start on shoveling the driveway. Ah! Nothing like getting the heart rate up with a snow shovel and a little frigid, fresh air! Who needs to pay for a gym? I wasn’t even halfway done when Conner got [...]
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The good news is — our washer wasn’t broken! The bad news is — our plumbing was backed up! The good news is — we didn’t have to pay the $70 service fee again! The bad news is — we had to wait for a plumber to come! The good news is — my teenager [...]
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No sooner do I get back from my trip to Chicago then our washer goes kaput. Lots and lots of water — NOT INSIDE THE WASHER.Not good. Especially when you’re right in the middle of trying to catch up on your laundry. I’m really not too keen on washing clothes in the bathtub; I’d rather [...]
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The residual costs of homeownership aren’t often considered when people look into buying their first home. I think that is changing since the housing bust (because mortgages were handed out willy-nilly), but generally speaking, when considering the buying vs. renting, people often look at what the mortgage payment would be versus rent for a similar [...]
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