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Finally! Before and After!
It has been a long year. We never expected this project to take this long, but we lost a few months due to Chris traveling to Europe for business and working as many as 20 hours a day for 30 days straight, and Moriah having major surgery in June. We are so relieved to...
What it Takes to Get a New Roof
A while back I posted that we had six of the exteriors of our rentals totaled out by a catastrophic (so-called by many insurance companies, as they slipped into the Slough of Despond) hail storm. We contracted repairs on this renovation house first because we needed...
Everything is Harder Than It Should Be
Have you ever put up a ceiling fan? Massive pain in the patoot, right? The theme of this particular post is that at least half the time we are almost done doing something hard, a new problem crops up to make it just a little bit -- or a whole lot -- harder. I have...
Finally Back to Work!
We were forced to take a long break by Chris' real job. He worked 30 days straight, 18-20 hours every day. Consequently, that didn't leave a lot of time for sleep, much less hanging cabinets. And I am not physically equipped to hang cabinets... After our forced...
About All Those House Flipping and DIY Shows
I think we watch them all. We started with Renovation Realities. Those people are usually pretty good entertainment. Chris' favorite for a while was Flipping Out - if you ask me, that one is more of a soap opera than a rehab show. And we watch Fixer Upper, First Time...
Ready-to-Assemble Cabinets – How Hard Could It Be?
Spoiler alert - there are no cabinets hung, so this is only the first post about cabinets... I really hope I will soon be posting beautiful "after" pictures. If you have been following along, you know we took down a couple walls and completely reconfigured the...