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Dining Room Tour

February 11, 2009
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Let’s see, according to the archives, it’s been exactly one year since we had our living room and dining room plaster walls patched and skim-coated. How time flies. I guess I should really show you the finished product —— this is a house blog, after all. We’ll start with the dining room. This is the [...]

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Good Riddance Paper Shades!

January 22, 2009
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A couple weeks ago I started thinking about finally doing something about replacing the Redi Shades in our bedrooms. Yes, they were a godsend when we first moved in — and I’d buy them again in a heartbeat — but after over 1-1/2 years they were looking pretty ragged, especially when our woodwork was refinished. [...]

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Professional Window Treatments

February 28, 2008
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To continue with our story from yesterday, we decided to steer away from the Renter’s School of Window Treatments (cheap blinds) and enlist the help of the professional window treatment designers at Roberts Drapery Center in Mt. Prospect for our living room and dining room windows. Let me point out that, although I was introduced [...]

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Help for Naked Windows

February 27, 2008
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I will freely admit that I’m challenged when it comes to covering my windows. In our previous house, we had plain metal blinds in our bedrooms. I usually would just go with something that wasn’t too expensive, because I never knew what to do to make it look good. Oh, I tried to dress it [...]

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