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Yard Progress

July 15, 2012
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The photo below shows that while we’ve finished some things in our yard makeover, we still have quite a ways to go on other things. What is done: the brick paver sidewalk, the pea gravel patio, the bluestone path from the front of the house to the flagstone patio and the bluestone walkway to the [...]

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Hardscaping the Yard, Part 2

June 2, 2012
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Once the dirt digging was done we were ready for our hardscaping materials. After shopping around for red pavers, I knew I didn’t want the more generic concrete pavers, like Unilock. It just wouldn’t look right with our natural flagstone and our old bungalow: too new-looking and too uniform. Of course concrete pavers are cheaper [...]

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Hardscaping the Yard, Part 1

June 2, 2012
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To make good on my goals for 2012, back in late March/early April I started calling various concrete contractors to get quotes on removing the sidewalk that stretched the length of the house to our alley. It was the first step in transforming our yard according to the plan that our landscape designer created for [...]

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Look, We’re Tiling!

September 2, 2009
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The long quest to move the master bedroom to the newly renovated attic space got a little shorter last weekend when we finally had some time and all the materials needed to start tiling the master bathroom. I say “start” because we’re a long way from finishing. As with any DIY project, we didn’t get [...]

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Patio Puzzle

May 14, 2008
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As our patio project progresses, we’ve reached the part where we’re exercising both our bodies and our minds. Not only are these flagstones heavy as sin, we also have to spend considerable time figuring out how they will best fit together. Sometimes that means moving a piece in to find that it just won’t work, [...]

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The neighbor visits…

May 12, 2007

While I continued to plan and dream about either adding on to our current house or moving, our neighbor down the block stops by to let us know that he’’s getting married. We’’ve known this neighbor, D, for a long time. Most of our neighbors have been around for a long time and we’’re all [...]

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