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Yesterday was quite the day. I mean, in addition to Gene coming over and helping us from morning until after dark as we threw drywall liberally about the dining room, I also managed to knock over and break my laptop which has served me faithfully t [Read More]

9" Disposable Roller Tray: $1.98 10" Waterborne Applicator: $7.46Clear Varathane Water Based Polyurethane: $46.26Finishing the shellacked floor for your new baby room...... Pricel..... $59.60For everything else there's Lowes.Well this is still only 2 [Read More]

Well I finished shellacking the floors and they came out very nice. Even though the new wood and old wood don't match, I'm not going to cry over it. Now I have to wait to put down the poly, which I will probably do next weekend when I can get some fr [Read More]

I am in the process of redoing the old downstairs room, which was originally a kitchen. To start off I had to pull up all the old original floors because they were in such bad shape (alot of rot from a former leak I presume). Anyways while I ripped u [Read More]

Last week the rain kept me from beginning the removal of the house’s aluminum siding.  This week, while the weather is perfect for such an outdoor project, I have yet to pull off the first panel.  Why?  I’ve been slightly distracted ( [Read More]

For two months I’ve been mulling over the kitchen/mudroom/breakfast nook floor.  I discovered the red-ivory-and-black plaid linoleum in early March, and try as I may, I just can’t keep it.  While it does have a vintage charm, it’s [Read More]

We've done our part. Do you feel stimulated? After much angst and "discussion" we decided on using Trex for the decking rather than cheaper pressure treated lumber. The only downside was that the color we wanted wasn't in stock. So our special order [Read More]

Actually, we will shortly move both pianos and a virginals, to get things out of the hallway, but tonight we just moved the grand piano. But before I show you its new home, some details. Today we did second coats on the walls and ceiling. While A [Read More]

One of the other things we got done over the long weekend was finishing the top of the bottom shelf in the pantry. We just stuck vinyl floor tiles on it, so you'd think we might have done this at any time when we were tiling away, but no. That wou [Read More]

We've been getting remarkably little done on the house lately, in part because I got hit over the head with a bunch of cooking that needed doing (mostly preserving stuff, so the kitchen has been a jelly factory for the last week). Despite that, Noe [Read More]

Our first task today was to run some errands, which took remarkably little time, given that it's now holiday shopping season and one of our errands was at IKEA. Then Noel spent a merry couple of hours sorting through his assorted boxes of gear whil [Read More]

Here's a grab-bag of questions from the last couple of months. Not all are real FAQ's, but some interesting questions and hopefully helpful answers. Have a question? E-mail us at casadecrepit@blue-room.com. And now your questions: Does the floor [Read More]

span style="font-size:130%;"The floors are finally done! Well, mostly. The Floor Man started on Tuesday of last week and finished on Friday. He has to return to do the the stairs. Finally, after walking around on plywood for the past eleven months, w [Read More]

Our kitchen floor is finished! Doesn’t it look great? The contractor didn’t bring enough tile to completely finish the bathroom, but he did the areas under the tub and toilet. The rest will go in on Monday. Things are finally coming b [Read More]

 These are pictures from the day I wrote the two “S.N.A.F.U.” posts about. Once Brandon got the kinks worked out with the flooring contractor they got to work. (These pictures aren’t of the same quality as my usual pictures becaus [Read More]

Here are some photos of what we — actually, Brandon – did to prep the bathroom to have tile put down: First Brandon turned off the main water line and unhooked the faucet from the tub. Then he put the faucet back together on the pipes s [Read More]

We’ve hired a professional flooring company to install tile in our bathroom.  We worked with them for several weeks, stopped in at the store twice, and had several phone discussions in setting all this up.  He told us we’d need to have [Read More]

Until we get all the drywall up in the pantry, we have this great little shortcut from the kitchen through the closet in the back of the library. I was thinking of putting a little secret doorway into the pantry, so we could store snacks in a conve [Read More]

Yesterday, in between rainshowers I was able to attach the 1 x 8 sheathing over the porch frame. I had cut it to fit already and had painted it in the garage.br /img src=http://zeus.ia.net/~mayhem/house/graphics/golf/backporch13.JPGbr /br /Then I too [Read More]

I can't believe I missed this one. As you know, I love the bling and the glitz, so what could make me happier than Swarovski Crystal flooring and 24 carat gold cork mosaic? These luxury floors were featured in the Designers Corner at the DOMOTEX 2008 [Read More]