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Light Time!
Island lighting that is! I had my heart completely set on these large bell pendants that I had gotten from Overstock.com, but over the last few months I found a couple other ones that I thought might work as well. Kade is NOT a fan of the large bell...
Saturday Night Live at Harman Auction – Nov. 3rd
Tonight was the first winter show at the auction, you didn't think we'd keep working through that did you? It's about the only break that we take...and we go help somebody else, lol. That is SO us! This was the first time we'd seen the Punches...
Take it back!
Well, the solution to the Silestone countertop dilema....take it back to the shop and cut off about 1/4" so that the chip is actually gone. Why do I feel like a jerk for having them do that?? I realize that I paid for it, but still I feel so bad. There it...
Oh Boy!
Well today we had a little help. Our friend Daryl came and helped Kade install a few doors. Those things are a pain in the butt!! I'm sure it doesn't help that we're working with an older house! I was working on painting in the middle bedroom...
Are You Kidding Me?
Seriously?? YOU ARE BUSTED!!! I opened the front door and THIS is what I found looking back at me! WHAT IS HE DOING?? Notice how he's on the bendy ladder? Yeah, that's the rest of it!! Folded over the stairs...and NOBODY was there to spot...
Too Much Blue??
The clutter room is finally painted! I have to say though....the blue I painted the bedroom, the master bathroom and this room all look almost exactly alike, UGH! What is up with that?? I can't wait to see the washer & dryer here. I'm still...
Silestone Quartz!! A mileSTONE!
Finally we got our quartz countertop!! We decided on the color Tigris Sand. It's kind of beige with whitish bits throughout. I figured it would be a good compliment to the soft white cabinets. They had to bring it in through the...
Poly – Pretty Poly!
I finally started the final stages of finishing the small pieces of countertop for the mudroom and clutter (laundry) room. I am having a TERRIBLE time with dust though (imagine that...in a house under construction....there's dust!) I also got the poly on...
One Door, One Fix, and a little Paint!
Oh my gosh...I just LOVE our new exterior doors! They're soooooo much better than what we had before!! We went ahead and got the 2 panel, to match the style of our interior doors. New door to the garage! EWWWW! That's the old door to the...
Staining the Wooden Countertops
Over the past month or so I've been testing a bunch of stain colors, mixtures, with wood conditioner, without wood conditioner, etc. so I can finish all of the wooden countertops. FINALLY...I think I've got something I like. First of all NO WOOD...
AAAHHHHH!
SO RELAXING!! CAN WE JUST STAY HERE??? PLEASE??? O.k. fine....back home tomorrow... and back to reality.
A Grouting Disaster!
I swear we are just prone to problems with this house project! Today we decided to finish the grouting in the 1/2 bath, mudroom and clutter (laundry) room. Everything was going smoothly....until we were finished. WHAT IS THAT??? That grout is suppose...
Trimming out the Farmhouse Sink
After our modification of the farmhouse sink cabinet, we were left with a hole that was cut about 1/2" too wide on all sides. We figured we could come up with something to "trim" it out. The sink looks so funny sitting in a hole that's too big. What we finally...
Problem Solved!
O.k., so after a few days of really trying to figure what to do about the sink situation, we've finally come up with a solution. The precut hole was 30" wide x 6" deep, so we needed to cut 4" deeper and TAPER the sides. So we taped EVERYTHING off with the green...
KITCHEN CABINETS!!!
FINALLY!!! It's so weird to see cabinets sitting in the middle of that big empty room now!!! Installing the island cabinets. They are knotty alder, the main wall cabinets are painted soft white. Mark (the installer) and Kade getting the back panel on the...
Exciting!
Tonight we finally got to go pick up our washer and dryer and new fridge that I bought in NOVEMBER & DECEMBER of 2012!!! Not kidding! Can't believe Sears let us keep them at the store for so long (Thanks, Sears!) So Mark & Jeff came and...
Kitchen Backsplash Time
FINALLY it's time to install the kitchen backsplash. We decided to go with a small subway tile. A simple style that is classic & classy. These little tiles are 2x4ish in side. They came on a sheet that worked out to be about a square foot...
A little more…but finally another decision made!
The window casing saga continues 🙂 This really shouldn't be so difficult! We tried some samples in the master bedroom today. Thought maybe a different view might make a difference, lol. Here it is with the square window apron. Here it is with...
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