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Well for the last four days, the AC guys have been working diligently installing our HVAC unit. I felt so bad for them! They kept running into problems after problems! First the AC guy ran into an issue with the city officials because they wouldn&#82 [Read More]

Ah, our mini vacay to Washington to visit my sister in law and her family has come to an end :( and I miss them so much already!! We journeyed 13 hours each way via car to see them and it was worth every single minute of driving :) Hubby and I were s [Read More]

And he’s stuck at home doing work :( poor baby! Hehe. While I’m at work, hubby’s going to be working on the house. We’re trying to get everything done and over with before the end of September. Here’s the list so far: 1) [Read More]

Man, it’s almost all coming together!!! Hubby and our friends came over on Saturday to help again with the AC ducts. Well, they are about 95% done… arg. They kept hitting snags at the right side of the house… the stupid roof line is [Read More]

And 6 days before our roommate moves in. Hubby and I are pretty hopeful that we are going to get the common living spaces done before he moves in on the 1st. His rental room is almost done, I just need to put new face plates on, clean the windows an [Read More]

Hubby and I were at a stopping point when my uncle was in the process of tiling the floors. He didn’t have enough tiles! *gasp!* I know… and my other uncle didn’t have any more of the marble tiles either! Another *gasp!* Bah! We wer [Read More]

Testing…. Our newly done marble and slate border kitchen floors :) Our newly done kitchen with all the appliances in :) Our new Samsung washer and dryer :) Our grown up bed… it’s a little wrinkly though… :) [Read More]

Yea, another dollar we are spending on our house… Home ownership seriously comes with a guarantee that there are never ending tasks that will come your way… After tackling the stuff listed right before we left for our Iowa vacation… [Read More]

Pardon all the mess, but we were able to move our couch and ottoman in this past weekend :) We are so excited! :) Things to tackle this week: Finish baseboards in master bedroom Buy floor trim pieces for rooms Stain floor trim pieces Install floor [Read More]

This has been a week of improvements - some small and easy, some large and complicated, all making life just a little better. 1. The 50-gallon water heater. We wanted a tankless, but that didn’t work out, so we bought a 50-gallon water heater [Read More]

One evening not so long ago, two gigantic cardboard boxes arrived on our doorstep. We sprang eagerly from our seats on the couch, because we’d been anticipating the arrival of the crib and changing table from the faraway land of Tar-jay. D tur [Read More]

The room that we’ve been tentatively calling the nursery still looks more like a catch-all than a space a child would want to call his/her own. Until now, I’ve avoided even thinking about decorating it as a nursery, because I was afraid [Read More]

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Today, I’m letting you inside the worst place in my house - the bedroom. I don’t show this room to guests because it’s too, too embarrassing. Only a select few have seen inside the Dungeon of Clutter. And yet, here on the Internet, [Read More]

I have been struggling with ideas for how to renovate our back room. It is a 10' by 20' room that was added on in the 1920's. It has a slanted roof, windows into the main house, and 2 HUGE windows. Oh, and peel and stick vinyl tiles.When we moved [Read More]