Do you know the feeling you get when you’ve worked really hard for really long on something and you just completed it and you look back and say, AAAHHHHH!!!! (insert sigh noise) That’s what I’m doing right now. The hallway renovation is finally and completely complete. Let’s look back on all that we’ve done before I […]
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BEAUTIFUL HARDWOOD FLOORS ~ Part Three
Laying the hardwood floors in our upstairs hallway, we’ve learned many do’s and don’t’s. Here are our top 2: #1) Starting with a space with many alcoves and crevices, a boring rectangular shaped room will be a piece of cake! #2) Walls are not square. MEASURE, MEASURE, MEASURE!! This is what we’ve done so far. […]
BEAUTIFUL HARDWOOD FLOORS ~ Part Two
After two days of working on pulling up the carpet and preparing the base molding and door jambs for the beautiful wood floors, we were aching. We both really looked like 90 year olds walking around the house!! You can see what we did here. The incentive of beautiful wood floors pushed us to continue […]
BEAUTIFUL HARDWOOD FLOORS ~ Part One
Happy Very Belated Chinese New Year! My LOML works for a company from China so the week before last was a big holiday for them. SCORE!!! He took off last Friday and Monday so we had four days to rip up carpeting and lay down beautiful wood floors (or so we thought!). DAY #1 The […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! ~ Planned Projects on the blog
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! The New Year always brings with it hope for change, fresh, new beginnings. We just put away all our Christmas decorations. Does anyone else get tired of them? My house felt so cluttered and dirty after a month of tinsel and pine needles and garland. Now I walk through my newly cleaned, […]