house renovation

Drum Roll Please

Here it is folk, the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Photos of our new/old, colourful and beautiful on the inside/ haunted on the outside house. I’ll say the same thing I say to everyone that walks into my home…Please excuse the mess. I know I have a good excuse, but the truth is it…

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Crawling to the Starting Line

I wish I were six years old. On Wednesday the school bus dropped Dusty off in front of his new home for the first time. He walked into a house with boxes stacked up to the ceiling, no refrigerator or kitchen counter, no sink in the bathroom and furniture stacked on top of each other.…

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The countdown.

Well, we are one week away from moving day. I wish I could say there was a toilet a tub, a sink or a put together kitchen counter, but instead I’ll say we work well under pressure. I think I really understand what it means to be overwhelmed. I’m not nervous. I’m just moving really…

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My dance With the Sander

I am finally making a useful citizen of myself. Tony pointed out to me that if I didn’t spend several hours a day on flickr and etsy and looking at blogs that I might actually have a little time to help out at the house. O.K. guilty as charged. So for the past few days…

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Down Come the Walls

Tony has been very busy with his sledge hammer.B oy, take down a couple of walls and it makes all the difference in the world. Now we get to look at our beautiful staircase from the living room and the living room just got a whole lot bigger. Don’t I look ready to work hard…

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