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This evening as I was finishing up supper, the phone rang. I'm not very good at long phone calls; at least, I'm not very good at just sitting still and being on the phone. I also have to move around and do things. Load the dishwasher. Wipe down cabi [Read More]

Today I got rid of even more junk from this house. This beast was removed from my living room. Hip-Hip Hooray! I have to give a big thanks to M and to S (who lives a few door down) for helping to get it into the truck. It was 150+ pounds.The corner o [Read More]

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Progress on the bedroom continues, but pictures will not be posted for a few more days . Everything is taped and waiting for the top coat of mud. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to texture and really start feeling like we are getting somewhere. [Read More]

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I'm halfway there. After ten hours of work, our bedroom has half the wallpaper stripped down to the wallboard. It's not a fun task; the paint and the wallpaper have to be stripped separately. The paint doesn't take long to soften and lift off, but [Read More]

I've finished stripping the bedroom! The total time invested came to twenty-two hours and it is even less attractive than when I began, but it is a good starting point. Actually it is working out well; the darker color of the drywall makes it easi [Read More]

I second the sentiment of nv at This D*mn House: I hate rain! And because we live on opposite sides of the state, the same rain got us both. NOAA radar showed a big blob of rain stretching across Missouri and I thought, Yep, I'm not workin on my s [Read More]

I've heard of small work triangles, but this is a tad tight! LOL! This was what my kitchen work triangle looked like in the midst of our kitchen wallpaper removal/painting weekend. Did I ever say that we hate removing wallpaper and we hate to paint? [Read More]

Ok the entrance and hallway wallpaper stripping has come to screeching halt. But I've got some trim painted white, does that count? No? Shucks.What's my issue? What's my problem? Well. I'm 5' 3 1/3" the DMV makes me choose either 5'3" or 5'4" [Read More]

Oh, and a couple of other things I learned today:If your favorite neighbor Floyd calls to tell you that you need to make more score-marks in the wallpaper--Take that Paper Tiger and roll it back and forth and up and down and all around, as much as yo [Read More]

This is not a product endorsement. Nope, this is way more than that. This is a full-on love fest for a common household product.I love Downy.No, no, not Downey. (Well, okay, I do love him.)This Downy:Downy Fabric Softener. It's not just for laundry [Read More]

Look what I found when I scraped some more wallpaper off the entryway wall:In case you can't read it, it says8 X 7 X 114 opningThat last part I think means "opening" or maybe "openings", plural. It's written right on the plaster wall, just next to t [Read More]

Lately I've gone through an extended period of house-loathing. All I could see when I walked through my house were the things I didn't like, and all the work that needs to be done, and all the stupid things the sucky previous owners did. I despaired [Read More]

This weekend my college friend, Chantell came to visit. She’s from Chicago and is going to grad school at Syracuse. She took the train all the way from Syracuse to Chicago for the holidays, and took the train from Chicago to here for a weekend [Read More]

We worked most of the day yesterday and got to a reasonably good place, but not as far as we wanted. Noel took down the picture rail, which turned out to be over three layers of wallpaper (it appears to date from after WWII) and was clearly not ori [Read More]

Yesterday we got to work with the wallpaper paste dissolver and scrapers, and by the time I quit work around 1am, this was where we'd gotten. And that with a sizable break in the middle of the day for a dog play date and for Noel to take off for a [Read More]

Wallpaper - when is it ever a good idea? It doesn’t matter what the pattern is - it’s going to go out of style and, even when in style, it’s such a matter of personal taste.  What I dislike about it most is that removal is no small [Read More]

We went to Hamilton Parker (tile showroom) this afternoon. We had to get there around 4:30 as they have "showroom hours" of 8AM-5PM weekdays and 8AM-12PM Saturdays and we wanted to get an order in sooner rather than later. We'd been in before and kne [Read More]

Fans of The Music Man will recognize the subject of my blog post.  Anybody who hasn’t seen The Music Man, just know that it references a song that is guaranteed to get stuck in your head if you hear it once, so consider yourself lucky for [Read More]