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In addition to painting our base cabinets this weekend, we also took 20 minutes to update the back of the peninsula.  (Note: The new countertops will have a waterfall edge so that is why the side of the peninsula is not painted.) A couple people noticed that the peninsula didn’t used to be planked like […]

You know what is silly?  Doing a kitchen update before demo has even started in there–but here we are.  We have almost everything ordered–and some things have even arrived–but there have been a few changes to the original plan to catch you up on: First up, the backsplash.  We were really excited about a moody […]

What’s Labor Day weekend without impulse-buying a major appliance?!  Buying an appliance was no where on our list for the past holiday weekend, but while perusing through Home Depot (which is always on our list. Every day, it seems.) we realized every appliance was on sale and we did need/want a new range. We have […]

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