Category: Kenmore Place
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Before on the left (ugly brown and tan aluminum, triple track storms that didn't work). After on the right (beautiful wood windows, wavy glass and years of more work to do!) There is still lots to do before they really shine—scraping, filling, sanding and painting; but the dramatic difference in the look of the windows…
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Before/After Another domino project completed! Now that the huge wooden flower box and vintage park bench are painted, the trim on the house looks terrible by comparison. Here we go again… Posted with Blogsy
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There is nothing like an impending party for motivation! More work on the house kept us up late all week, mostly outside. The beautiful spring weather and long nights have me in the mood to plant flower pot after flower pot. It's a good thing I enjoy planting them, as usually I've killed them by…
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BEFORE: AFTER: The shades came! It took some doing to get them ordered after a computer glitch, but they finally arrived. They are perfect. We started with the six in the sunroom, my favorite room in the house. Only 14 more to install! Posted with Blogsy
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I've never been so thrilled to see a garage wall! The two crumbling broken windows in the back of the garage were replaced with gleaming bright glass block today. It's a small thing, but a huge improvement. The garage wall is my last view when I leave for work each day, and my first impression…
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For more than fifteen years I have searched for the perfect dinnerware. The set I coveted, Rosenthal porcelain, was always out of budget. But I refused to get cheap stuff I didn’t love. There’s a story about an argument with Mom in a Walmart over a toaster in this history of waiting for what I…
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The play area yesterday was crawling….with parents. The kids hardly had room to move, much less swing and jump. I remember French playgrounds where parents sat on the sidelines and had coffee and adult conversation while the kids sorted it out. I love you Vivi, but I find the playground incredibly boring, and I won’t…
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Don’t Discount Your House’s Exterior Statement… — Arts & Crafts Homes and the Revival Spring weather turns my attention to the outside of the house….which is a disaster. I want to paint it, remove the horrible aluminum trim and restore the old storms and screens. I’m itching to scrape the peeling doors, yank out the…
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Before: After: Little bits of progress…or, resignation. This kitchen cabinet, the only kitchen to speak of, is supposed to be ripped out some day. But, at our pace of Demo Quickly-Rebuild Never, I’ve forbidden it’s removal. So, in quiet acceptance of the fact that I have lived in this fixer for two years, and will…
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It only took six months…and 1 day and $33.18 but we finally got a mirror in the bathroom. I’ve been doing my face in a hand mirror hanging off the latch on the cabinet door. In our only bathroom. A bathroom with no threshold, no door trim, chunks of plaster on the floor and a…
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