March 2005 - Posts
It’s heartbreaking when a beautiful old home gets torn down. This happened in the historic Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle last January. I missed it in the news then, but it made the front page of this morning’s paper. Residents of Queen Anne are pushing
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You can carry it with one hand, but it does the work of 4 people. The small tiller that my dad lent me (Thank you Dad!) is amazing. It is my new favorite tool. The "Little Wonder" tears through the roots and does a great job loosening the soil for us
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... said our sewer. "It's a holiday, and so I thought it was time to back up again." "Do you have to?" I asked, as water began to pool around my ankles in the shower, before Easter dinner. As if in response, the Sewer gurgled up some bubbles in a long
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Nearly half (46%) us are clearly addicted to the house-blogging phenomenum and should seek therapy. 25% of us are on the cusp of addiction. And the remaining 29% are off working on their houses and getting real work done. In this week's poll, tell us
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It’s raining this weekend in Seattle, and with the stairway project out of the way my ambition to start something new today is a bit low. Instead, I finished up my write up on our Media Room project, which we completed last year, BB. (Before Blog). Read
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Two months before our wedding last summer, I thought it would be a great idea to start to restore our staircase. It’s one of my favorite features of our house. My thinking was that we could finish it during the summer. It didn’t seem like it would be
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The results are in: 55% of our 22 respondants have their own house blog, 27 percent do not, and 18 percent apparently have plans to begin publishing soon! This week's poll is on the right. Vote once, then tell your renovator friends to come and vote too
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One of the sites I keep finding my way back to is HistoricProperties.com . The site lists historic properties (largely in the South), of varying condition and price. My favorite search is “up to $100,000, project-house”. Here’s one for $5000. Or, if you’d
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We thought we'd try something new with the site, so we added a new "poll" feature, over on the right. Vote once, and check back often to see the latest results! If you have any burning questions for future polls, just let us know...
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It’s been awhile since we’ve posted & believe or not, we’ve been working on the house a bit! We are “close” to finishing the stairway project, but I feel like I’ve been saying that for a long time. After Nick finished the last of the drywall sanding we
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I love you even when your hair is crazy crazy!
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I was sure bummed a couple of weeks ago when our electrician friend said he wouldn’t be able to make it over to help with our final hookup anytime soon. He had committed to another project that was taking way too long. Then, Sunday morning he called and asked Trissa if we wanted to do the switchover that very day! Trissa was sick Sunday, but I was raring to go!
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Spring is fast approaching, and we’re getting excited! This just might, with a little luck, be the year we do some major renovation work on the first floor. The last demolition work that got done on this floor was pre-Trissa, and pre-roommate (I removed
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