March 2009

Ready for Prime Time

March 13, 2009

The plaster work is done, thank the gods. What a mess. I really hope to never have to do that again. No matter how much you think you prepared for it, you find that you’re not. We taped all the woodwork with blue painter’s tape and covered the windows, closet doors and furniture with plastic. [...]

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Bungalow Art Glass

March 5, 2009
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I don’t think I’ve talked much about our art glass windows. If you’ve read my blog for a while or have seen it on Houseblogs.net, you know my banner used to look like this: Nowadays I’ve taken a more subtle approach in the banner and just use a few elements from the windows, but there [...]

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Just Add Water

March 5, 2009
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Wow. It’s been over a year since I scraped the paint and wallpaper off our bedroom walls. We have been living with the “distressed” look ever since. Those are all the wallpaper bits that didn’t easily come off during the scraping phase. Pete spent one afternoon meticulously scraping one wall, but it was slow going [...]

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So much to do…

March 3, 2009
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…so little time. Where to begin? Pete and I spent much of the weekend scraping walls. Pete had already started on the TV room last week, but we dug into it again. The walls in this room looked bad before, but now they really look like crap. Nice, huh? We knew this room needed work, [...]

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