How to Prep Your Home for Sale
As we continue our search for a new job, we are also prepping the house for sale. Although we haven’t listed it on the market yet, we want it ready to go up as soon as we know where we’ll be moving. By having the home in top condition before listing it, we should be […]
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Over the Sink Light
As part of our Kitchen Remodel, we decided to put a light over the sink. When we moved in there was a small cupboard over the sink. One day as I went to put some items in the cupboard, I noticed there were wires sticking through the back of it. Not just any wires though, […]
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Tuesday Tips – Plumbing
Tuesday Tips Have you ever worked with plumbing? Has your spouse? When it comes down to electricity and plumbing, I get very nervous doing our own remodeling. To me those should be left to a trained professional. Sadly, they also cost a lot of money to update as well. We’ve come down to the last […]
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Dining Room Recap
I wanted to pull our Dining Room remodel into one recap post. It’s so neat to see the before and after shots next to each other! For me, it just doesn’t even look like the same room anymore. I love our new Dining Room! It started out as a simple floor to ceiling pantry project. […]
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DIY Drum Light
We felt our dining room needed different lighting. The dome light just didn’t give adequate light. In fact, I kept it off more often than on, because it made so little difference, and I saved the money. Since we were remodeling already, I figure a new light was in order as well. While browsing […]
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Remodel update
I know you’ve all just been dying to see wha’s going on in the Dining Room! Gosh it’s been awhile since I last shared our progress with you. Last I left you, we had the wallpaper removed, and the sheetrock up. Since then we’ve plastered, painted, put the pantry shelves in and hung the pantry […]
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Dining Room Overhaul
Today felt like we were on one of those HGTV shows with how many people were in our dining room working. Many things got accomplished at once, and I’m seeing more of an end (while wishing the end was already here). Here’s a look at what got accomplished this week. Continuation of the wallpaper stripping […]
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Wallpaper Stripping (WW)
2 Days of Stripping Wallpaper, and I’ve got almost 1 wall down. We had some friends come by last night to help, which was wonderful! The plan (hope) is to have the wallpaper/paint off the walls by saturday so we can start the painting process. Being pregnant, we’re trying to find ways that I can […]
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Kitchen Remodeling Update
Mark has been working hard on our kitchen remodel, and has gotten quite a bit done. Saturday my dad and brother came up and leant a hand. Sunday, Mark took a break for Christmas, but he has hardly left the kitchen since. Here’s some pictures to update you on our progress! Mark putting the new […]
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Dining Room Remodel day 2
I took the Princesses to the mall to search for a last minute gift and to get some play time in, while Mark stayed home and got some work done undistracted. After yesterday, today was much more calm, as we had more of a plan of what needed to be done. First on the list – […]
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