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Check out Ray singing Laurie Lewis’s...
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December 2009
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November 2009
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getting a little dumber (thanks, lead paint!)
It’s been (too many) weeks since we posted about our progress. Between various illnesses and an unyielding travel schedule, it has been a while since we accomplished much of anything on the house.
This weekend changed that, as we tackled a big job: refinishing the floors in one of the upstairs rooms. It actually wasn’t a project on the to-do list…the floors were painted white...
October 2009
5 posts
With a little help from our friends...
This weekend Marshall’s friend Kyle came up from Portland for a visit and we didn’t let him escape without contributing some sweat equity. This weekend’s project: finishing sanding the mud and tape of the bedroom and then priming the walls. We are sooo glad to be done with this stage of the process. Drywall takes forever! Choosing colors and painting will be much more fun (we...
The new stove
You may know that getting a new stove has been high on the priority list for us. For reasons more complicated than are worth recounting, there was not one we could use when we moved in. For a while, this was okay — in the summer, we mostly grilled outside on our new grill (thanks Mom!) — but the time came that we really needed a stove indoors.
Since we spend lots of time cooking and...
September 2009
21 posts
Installing Windows
Marshall’s been traveling for the past…ahem…several weeks and McKenna is starting her graduate program, so there has not been much time for home improvement work lately. However, on Marshall’s most recent 36-hour stopover in Seattle, we did manage to install some Milgard windows in the basement room that will soon (we hope!) be our bedroom.
We also got some great coaching...
Insulation and Drywall
McKenna just finished a two-week marathon of remodeling work under the guidance of Magali, who came up from Santa Cruz to offer her remodeling knowledge and skills. The big project on the docket was adding insulation and drywall to the soon-to-be bedroom downstairs.
A few things learned:
The insulation we used, called UltraTouch (an eco- and human-friendly product made from recycled denim) was...
