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Those of you that guessed “concrete floor” in yesterday’s post were right!  That was a very close photo of our newly stained concrete floors in our guest room.  The project was intense and long and we just finished filming the last details last night and submitted our video to True Value this morning (it will […]

This is the only picture you have seen of our laundry room/half bath right off of the family room: The room is not pretty to look at, so we usually just get our laundry done and get outta there.  The blue rag-rolled walls and lighthouse wallpaper border are dee-skusting.  The once blue (I think) tiles […]

Yup, it’s that time again.  Except this time instead of blabbing on about how “I just can’t stand___,” I want to show you exceptions I have found.  And because I don’t want to get things messy as far as trackbacks go, I’ll leave the obvious examples of how these things have come to bug me […]

The next installment of our online mini-series is live on True Value’s facebook page!  They are following our step by step renovation of turning a room in our basement into a guest room and office.  Today, you can check out all the steps it took to get rid of those black splattered walls (wooohoooo! They […]

It’s hard for us to believe it has been 6 months since we moved into this home–our very first.  April 2nd we moved in and we have been busy ever since.  In the past 6 months: –We have painted 9 rooms (Family room, Dining room, Kitchen (and cabinets), Living room, Hallway, Hall Bath, Greta’s room, Our […]

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