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ATL-nado 2008

Wow.
It is midnight, and as I sit here writing this, I cannot even begin to express how amazingly lucky I feel. I have been looking at pictures of the devastation that occurred throughout Cabbagetown and some of the other areas near us in Atlanta, and I feel fucking blessed. I also want to make sure [...]

updates are interesting… aren’t they?

It seems like everything and nothing happens these days in my life. There is waking up, driving to work, work, driving home from work, watching TV/passing time until bedtime, sleep, and then repeat. However, these past few weeks, we have been dealing with the house being in total upheaval over the floors in the office [...]

installing hardwoods in the office

Well, as I mentioned earlier, we had the floors torn out of our office, and had the joists completely rebuilt, with a new subfloor to boot. James and I talked about getting carpet in there, since we didn’t think we could afford hardwood floors; especially after the $3500 it cost to have the floors fixed. [...]

flooring update and plans

So I mentioned it, but didn’t really elaborate on it, but our floors are now fixed. We have had issues with our floors since we bought this house, mostly due to crooked contractors and a not-so-truthful home inspector. Well, we had re-supported them in the past, but the office was just getting worse and worse, [...]

beadboard: what’s been done so far…

So, I said this weekend that we were going to finished caulking and painting, but we didn’t schedule our time right, and as a result, we just decided to clean up, and leave things as is for right now. After all, our house was a MESS, and we literally couldn’t stand it any longer. It [...]

caulk it baby one more time

Today we are putting the finishing touches on our mini-remodel; we decided the living room would look better if it had beadboard and a chair rail. I am going to be doing the caulking because that is not one of James’ strong areas, and then the painting and clean up should commence. After living in [...]

to paint or not to paint?

James and I are in the process of beginning to prime the new front porch for painting and staining. We spent the entire day today priming the columns and tomorrow, we begin on the railings. There really is only one problem that I see here: I don’t think that we will be able to do [...]

the front porch is almost done!

I was going to wait until it was finished to do a big unveiling, but I am too excited about how it is coming out. The new front porch (see pictures here) is almost finished, and will be painted in a few weeks. I LOVE IT! Check out the pictures of the old porch, and [...]

bathroom remodel… take two!

Not much going on, but I feel compelled to post something, so here it is. My legs still feel like someone has beaten me with reeds, after crouching for 12 hours straight while doing the tile in the bathroom and mudroom. Hopefully, that will soon go away. Until then, I would like to post some [...]

bathroom remodel… no easy task.

So this weekend, James and I decided that we were going to remodel the front bathroom. Well, that meant that we would have to remove the tile in not only the bathroom, but in the mud room, where the washer and dryer are, too. We started on Friday, and we JUST finished getting all of [...]




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