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Just to prove the weekend was not a total loss
Did We Survive Hurricane Katrina or Not? | August 5th 2008 by Anita
Yee haw! Them thar bathroom walls are painted.3-D stencil thingamabobs over the bathroom mirror that no oneelse will really ever see (except the boys who aren't allthat into 3-D stencil thingamabobs) - but I know it's there.All that's left is paintin read more
Pssst....
Did We Survive Hurricane Katrina or Not? | July 16th 2008 by Anita
We got paint. I'll leave it to Dave to fill in the details... But let's just say the entire experience certainly lacked the drama we were expecting. read more
A picture's worth a thousand words
Did We Survive Hurricane Katrina or Not? | June 26th 2008 by Anita
Oh man, am I feeling the burn of not having a camera this morning.....But since it's been days since I posted - I shall try to fulfill my blogging duties anyway by a quick run-down of status of our various projects around the house as of this moment: read more
Let's try this again...
Did We Survive Hurricane Katrina or Not? | June 2nd 2008 by Anita
Patagonia in CharcoalDave held his breath and dove in again today ordering tile for the upstairs bathroom... We're attempting to acquire the Mohawk Patagonia Charcoal for which the store had a sample (despite the absence of the Patagonia line on the read more
By any other name
Did We Survive Hurricane Katrina or Not? | May 20th 2008 by Anita
In case you're wondering why absolutely nothing has happened with our bathroom or roof projects recently.... I just want you all to know - it's not our fault.It started with the Mohawk Trapani Charcoal tile. If you check out Mohawk's website - the read more
Reason #372 Why I Don’t Clean
DIYdiva | May 9th 2008 by Kit S.
Intro Maybe you haven’t been around here long enough to notice, but I don’t generally take on small projects. Mostly not even regular sized projects. And definitely hardly ever maintenance projects. I like fixing and/or building things. read more
Saving the inside chores for a rainy day
Did We Survive Hurricane Katrina or Not? | April 20th 2008 by Anita
Laying out the slate for the garden path...We're only about 70 tiles and 280 lbs of sand short at the moment.It's just too pretty out to force ourselves to stay inside today. Besides - we don't have any major projects-in-progress that we can actuall read more
"Don't be surprised if I'm breaking out the Kilz primer at one o'…
Did We Survive Hurricane Katrina or Not? | April 9th 2008 by Anita
That's how I ended yesterday afternoon's post about impending repairs in the upstairs bathroom. Turns out it was more around 11 pm that night that we broke out the Kilz primer. It was Dave's idea. He had that glazed and obsessed home improvement lo read more
If it ain't broke
Did We Survive Hurricane Katrina or Not? | April 8th 2008 by Anita
Excellent news on the home repair front. A fellow from Blythe's Plumbing came out this afternoon to give us an estimate on taking out the leaking shower/tub unit upstairs and replacing it. At least, that's what he was planning on doing. However, w read more
Visual motivation
Did We Survive Hurricane Katrina or Not? | April 2nd 2008 by Anita
Now that I've walked around the house a few times this morning admiring what we have finished over the last couple of years.... It's time to get motivated to start the next project -- whatever that may be. For that purpose, I offer this handful of ph read more
The hole in the wall
Did We Survive Hurricane Katrina or Not? | March 31st 2008 by Anita
It always starts with a hole in the wall. A little hole at first. Then the hole gets bigger. Then other holes appear simply because it seems wrong to stop at one. Then everything goes crazy and carpet and trim gets ripped out... fixtures are remov read more
We've sprung a leak
Our New Farmhouse in Germany | June 28th 2007 by Tiffany
When we got up on Saturday morning, we noticed that a water stain had developed on the ceiling in the former dining room. This room is directly underneath the bathroom we had installed upstairs and the water stain is right underneath the shower. Stef read more
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