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Life Lesson: Discount Stalking
So we've been making some big purchases around here. And while a large part of my brain still flashes warning lights and says nononononononono whenever we shell out for something, another part of my...
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Shiny and New
The new appliances have arrived.We're feeling pretty good about them, even though the rest of the kitchen isn't nearly ready for them to be installed. So they're just going to hang out in the dining...
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Working for the Weekend
Well, today brought disappointing personal news, gang, but I am not even going to let it bring me down. Nuh-uh. Too much to do. Big day ahead. Don't even. Nope. I will not. Moving on.Plans for tomorrow...
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We did all the things.
I cannot even convey how good it feels to be sitting down right now. All those things I said we had lined up for Saturday? Yeah, we did all the things. We grabbed this weekend by the lapels and made...
View ArticleThings You Cannot Make Without an Oven: Apple, Potato and Onion Gratin
I have really been trying to be a trouper about the kitchen. I've lived without a dishwasher before; I've lived without a disposal before; and I can work with limited prep space. But now, after two-ish...
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Green in the face.
The living room is finished! I did not meet my goal of having it done by Wednesday (turns out when you run hard all weekend and then continue into Monday and Tuesday nights, by Wednesday you are...
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The Kitchen Plan
I mentioned last week that we have finally signed with a kitchen contractor. We are quickly moving from fuzzy, vague plans to very specific ones. Like, annoyingly specific. Like, do we want xenon or...
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Piano men.
The piano is here! Do you know what surprised me about this process? When the appliance delivery guys came, they had these harnesses they wore over their shoulders that strapped underneath the...
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Baby Steps to Tidiness
Last week I had a medium-grade attack of angry-crazy-stabby-brain, in which everything just seemed terribly disorganized and chaotic. After much reflection, I determined that this was due to the fact...
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Curtain Math. (Math is hard.)
So the last post I was all, "Ooh, lookit me, I picked up my house like a grownup!" Let's check in on our progress with that, shall we? Here is the dining area in its current state:Okay, so that lasted...
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Guess what? Kitchen gut.
The kitchen is gooooone! I took the day off and hung out in the basement while upstairs there were...And now, what looked like this last night...... now looks like this:Hey, studs.Hey, giant ziplock...
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Making Do
Well, we're coming up on a week without a kitchen. Over the weekend, a few people asked me what our temporary setup is like, so I will tell you: It is messy, and yet to be perfected. I think we had...
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Walls and Insulation and Ponies and Butterflies
I came home to find a strange man on stilts in my house today, but no biggie, he was just mudding drywall and now we have glorious new waaalllsss. Thank you, strange man on stilts!I should back up....
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Bathroom Sprucing
In news of other, smaller projects, a few weeks ago I took the vent covers off in both of the upstairs bathrooms because they were gross and rusty. After taping off the plastic knobs, I went to town...
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My Mod Fireplace Art Find
The peacock gravel art was not my only great find the day I went shopping with my mom. We also went to HomeGoods, where I stumbled across an ideal "art" piece for above our living room fireplace....
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Cab-ra-cad-abra
We have reached the "dust is everywhere" stage of remodeling. I don't think I noticed it as much during the week because it's already dark when we get home from work now, but today when I saw the...
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Oh (Possessed Elf) Christmas Tree
In 10 years of dorm and apartment living, I never had the space or the inclination to mess with a Christmas tree. But last Christmas finally seemed like the time to get one. We were still in the condo...
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Yay.
You guys, I just spent 10 minutes trying to find a gif of Julie Andrews spinning on a mountaintop. I failed to find a version that would be appropriate for this, a family-safe blog, so please just...
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Installing a Never-MT for Maximum Soap Dispenser Optimization, Synergy, and...
I just completed my first kitchen DIY, and it was only a few minutes ago but so far has NOT resulted in property damage, so, big score.We got the okay to move stuff into most of the cabinets yesterday...
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Post-Christmas Prettifying
A belated merry Christmas to you, my readers, both of you. This month has not been great in terms of blog updates, but has been pretty good in terms of life happening and keeping me busy. We hosted...
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