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The paint’s all up and I’m working on stripping the paint off the woodwork in the dining room! Pictures! Oh yeah, and I accidentally touched the metal tip of the heat gun to my arm as I was reaching for the paint chip bucket. I bu [Read More]

All through this process I’ve been asking (admittedly, sometimes whining) “Is it time to paint yet?  Now?  How ’bout now?” Yes, Kelli. NOW it is time to paint. “Woo hoo!!”  *Kelli does a little happy dance* I st [Read More]

At one time there was a chair rail in the dining room. It’s gone now but I liked the idea of having two paint colors in the dining room, so I put masking tape over where the chair rail was and plan to paint the top part Bone White and the botto [Read More]

 This place is amazing.  Check out the entry door.  Square is so, well, square. This living room will stay largely intact.  The fireplace deserves a post all to itself.  On the left column is a happy elf and on the right c [Read More]

Friday night Patrick decided to take a few pieces of blue tape remnants off the dining room walls. They had served to protest the wall from getting chemical on them while we were stripping the wood. Except, the tape had been on there for so long that [Read More]

I have big dreams for my dining room. I love the dining room. It’s one of my favorite rooms in the house and after living in a house for a while that didn’t have a dining room I remembered how much I love them when I saw the spacious one [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]

Alright, so we've worked on a few projects over the last couple of weeks. And with this rollercoaster weather it gave us a nice variety of things to do. Two weeks ago when it was snowing we stripped some more paint. Patrick worked on the last bit [Read More]

Well, not really, because I refuse to cook tonight.  I’m taking the night off and celebrating!  But what IS done is a tall order of wood windows, baseboards, and butler’s door that has been cooking for the last few months.  This was a [Read More]

We finished paint removal with PeelAway on the brick and tile of the fireplace last night. Well, or at least the front. I suppose we didn’t do the thin strip on each side. So this is the result we got after using the PeelAway one time. You can te [Read More]

Our fireplace paint removal with Peel Away has continued over the last week. In order not to get overwhelmed we are tackling one little section at a time. Patrick is applying the Peel Away… The waxy paper is applied. Now we wait… As t [Read More]

It’s been a low-key few days on the project front.  I blame the dinner parties and an extra-long thrift store excursion on Saturday for my lack of motivation for involved, time-consuming projects.  Don’t count me out, though, because [Read More]

Our socially uneventful weekend proved itself to be very helpful in the house project department. Patrick has been eager to remove some paint from the dining room fireplace – initially to my dismay because it would mean another started project while [Read More]

The dining room was re-done last spring, and although it was an improvement over the flat white paint and water-stained wallpaper on the walls, I was over the cranberry shade I had chosen for the walls. At 12′ x 16′, this room is on the [Read More]

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Since there's so much change going around (I've seen a few fellow bloggers change up their page too!) I thought I would share a recent small, yet important, change to our dining room. When we first bought our house there was a utilitarian chandelier [Read More]

YAY!  I could almost do cartwheels!  Lord knows I have enough space in the hall!  Steven put up the dining room bay window hardware and I just finished putting up the last curtain panel!  I snatched up some red damask silk curtains on clearance [Read More]

I decided to sit down and finish sewing the last curtain panel for my dining room.  I have been trying to get it done for about six months now.  I don’t know why I stopped with only one to go.  I must have been really tired!  I put the fini [Read More]

One of the reasons we wanted such a big home was the hope that ours would be the one that our whole family gathered at for the holidays. Ever since I saw the a href="http://hearnehardwoods.com/hardwoods/flitch_hardwoods/all_flitches_hardwood.html"mas [Read More]