home improvement

Wrapping Up The Outdoor Chores, And A Few Good Links

October 3, 2009

I got a blog award last week, and in the process I discovered a new blog.  Kristina writes at Growing A Better Me, and has all sorts of interesting things to share.  Thanks for the award Kristina!  As far as passing it on goes, the blogs on my blogroll are my favorites, and I highly [...]

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Now I Can Cook In My Underwear

September 27, 2009

When we moved into this house, there was no blind on the window in our kitchen.  The rest of the house has basic plastic blinds – which are fine with us – but the kitchen window was bare.  It only looks out onto our side yard, and beyond that is our neighbor’s garage, so there [...]

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Another Do It Yourself Project

August 13, 2009

My husband finished a window well cover earlier this week, and is nearly finished with the second one.  I’m pretty darn impressed, especially given that this is his first real welding project (he considered the umbrella stand practice, since it just involved attaching a piece of pipe to a piece of I-beam).  Here’s a picture [...]

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I’m Married To A Welder

August 3, 2009

My husband is teaching himself to weld (with a little help from YouTube and Google).  It’s something he’s wanted to do for a long time, but now that we’ve moved, he has more space to do it, and lots of things to weld.  He found a welder on Craigs List, and a welding mask on [...]

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Progress On Our Little Homestead

July 20, 2009

It has been a busy three weeks around here, but we’re making progress.  We finished building a gate in our fence that will allow us to move large things in an out of the backyard.  The previous owner had tried to construct a 15 foot gate.  He bought a bunch of expensive hardware that would [...]

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Sailed Through The Inspection

June 9, 2009

We had our inspection today on our house today, and the results are pretty sweet. The only things the buyer is asking us to do is add GFCIs to the kitchen, bathrooms, and laundry room (the new section of the kitchen that we remodeled last year has GFCIs, but the rest of the house was [...]

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We Found A New House!

May 27, 2009

It’s been a whirlwind few days around here, between all the house buying and selling, and then a visit from my husband’s parents.  But I thought I’d post an update on what is going on with our housing situation. Everything is still looking good with the sale of our current house.  The inspection was last [...]

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We Got An Offer On Our House!

May 16, 2009

And they offered our full asking price!  Doing a little happy dance…. Ok, I’m back.  We had three more showings today (that made nine total), including a second showing for a buyer who was here on Thursday.  That showing ended at 6:30 this evening, and by 7:45 they had made an offer.  Our realtor said [...]

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House Is On The Market!

May 14, 2009

Don’t worry, I’m still here… it’s just been a crazy week.  Our house finally got listed on the MLS yesterday, after a whirlwind weekend devoted to all sorts of last minute touch ups.  The photographer was here on Tuesday and took fantastic pictures and 360 degree videos for the virtual tour.  We’ve already had three [...]

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Our Professional Staging Consultation

May 11, 2009

After all the staging we did on our own, we were excited about having a professional stager come over and check out our house.  Our realtor uses a stager as part of her service, so we gladly took her up on the offer.  The stager was here on Friday, and we spent Friday evening and [...]

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