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Master Bedroom Redo…Again
A few months ago, we moved out of our bedroom and into the guest bedroom. Why? Unfortunately, the noise from the bathroom plumbing stack (which is the wall where our bed is located) came back. I...
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Touring an Urban Farm
Yesterday we took a tour of an urban farm owned and run by GardenGirltv. I stumbled upon Patty Moreno’s website a couple weeks ago, and was immediately inspired by her desire to help urban people to...
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Soundproofing the Bathroom Plumbing
continued from “Master Bedroom Redo” After scouring the internet and reading the Fine Homebuilding article several times, I came up with a list of things I could do to soundproof our bedroom/bathroom...
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Overdue Post on Kitchen Shelves
A true diehard houseblogger would not have let a pregnancy and baby interfere with posting, but ours was a little high maintenance. So without further ado, the kitchen shelves in the works. The shelves...
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Arbor Plans
After putting in the fence in our front yard, I’ve been coveting an arbor to frame the entrance, and Tig has been looking for a structure for the hardy kiwi he bought this spring. We found this simple...
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Long Arbor Post, Part 1
After picking up the custom cedar fence pieces, Tig primed and stained them in the basement; the last coat went on after the little one went to sleep. On a Saturday morning, the 5th fence panel went...
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Master Landscape Plan is Evolving
We’ve posted before about hiring a landscape designer to put together a master plan for us. I was talking to a work colleague one day and she said, “the landscape design is the framework upon which you...
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Long Arbor Post, Part 2
After putting in the first post,worked on second one, which went much quicker. Gratuitous baby shot. Was aiming at the men, I swear! Tig’s strange headgear getup was after I reprimanded him for not...
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Finishing the Arbor
Finding relatively cheap white cedar in 2″x8″ sizes is nearly impossible. Our fence panels and posts are all made of white cedar, which is much less expensive than western red cedar. And unfortunately,...
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It has moved, our heart
July 6, 2011 These are the walls we patiently scraped, mended with spackle and painted. The bathroom we gutted, and bathed with open walls and studs (and a copper tube spigot, and a pair of pliers)....
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