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Upstairs Kitchen is Gone!
I’m aware that some people grew up engaging in wholesome sorts of activities, like reading the Bible or watching Schoolhouse Rock. For such individuals, that type of stuff might have played a...
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Fun and Funky Thoughts on Asbestos!
There’s a funny little subject that old home owners tend to be loathe to talk about, even among themselves. They’ll sit around for hours and laugh and laugh about uninsulated walls and crumbling...
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My Roof Might Kill Me.
When we closed on our house, I bought this book called Renovating Old Houses because I figured it would be chock-full of interesting and valid information that would come in handy as a new renovator of...
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The Dining Room Ceiling. Oops!
It seems to me that there are only a couple of general strategies to choose from when undertaking a major renovation. The first is to just bite the bullet and do it all at once, often before even...
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Demo. Demo Forever.
One of the side effects of renovating an old house, I’ve found, is the way my brain has come to toggle between the absurd optimism I feel before a project begins and the extreme despair I experience...
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Dining Room Closet Demo + Pantry!
One of the things that caught my eye the first time we saw the house was this closet door in the dining room. Because so many of the original features of our house are intact—all the interior doors...
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The Downstairs Bathroom.
After a couple months of stalking the listing online, the price on our house finally dropped and a few days later I worked up the nerve to call the listing agent to inquire about it. “It’s a great...
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Ladies and Gentlemen, May I Present: CEILINGS!
It’s been a long time coming, so I won’t drag it out: WE HAVE CEILINGS AGAIN! SEE?!?!?!? Backing up *just a touch*, since you know how I like to get into the nitty-gritty of it all…wayyyyy back in...
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Gutting the Cottage.
Here’s how I thought things would pan out with the cottage: 1. Finish the exterior. 2. Take a week off from the cottage, maybe. 3. Gut the interior. 4. You know, the rest of it. It was all going to be...
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Framing the Cottage: Part 1!
I realize that this is maybe not the most exciting post to kick off 2015, but hey, I don’t make the rules! Just kidding. I MAKE ALL THE RULES. On this blog anyway. Live it, love it. Anyway, happy new...
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Mudroom-B-Gone!
So, remember the ongoing saga regarding that weird room on the back of my house that I wanted to disappear? For SOME REASON (delusion, lack of forethought, unwarranted optimism…same shit, different...
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The Solarium is Gone!
So this is exciting: I think I’m done tearing additions off this house! Forever! Tearing off entire structures like the mudroom last year and the second floor bay window this year is, as you might...
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BREAKING: My Kitchen has a Fireplace!
I decided to just tear the band-aid off and fully demo my kitchen. I’m not positive that this was the smartest idea but given that the pantry was already torn out, two of four walls were down to the...
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