Category: Kenmore Place
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Paul made the trek up to Door County yesterday to start the process of getting the trailer ready for the season. We had thought that the Tin Can Cottage would be our big renovation project for the year! Turns out, it may be our refuge from renovation chaos instead. Once we get some work done…
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Night three of the Office Nook fast-track renovation — the flooring is going down. There will be paint touch up to do, and shoe molding to replace, but the little room is almost done. The wall paint is Benjamin Moore’s Dark Pewter in Matte finish. The Matte finish is flatter than Flat—the depth of color…
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Despite good intentions of a fresh start, yesterday was crap too! We can’t drop a 220 line for the dryer without putting in a sub panel so we need to get a gas dryer instead. Paul put up the clothesline directly across the walkway at the basement stairs. Running downstairs for a tool or another…
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Me: “You aren’t listening to me!” Paulie: “There’s so much to listen to!” Thank goodness we can laugh at each other. Moving has been stressful, buying has been stressful, and now we have a mountain of renovation work to do. Time to resurrect our division of labor technique. I’m the Design Department, Paulie is Structural…
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A few tips for that week between when you packed up all your belongings and the day you actually move: Un-used diapers make handy pot holders. Coffee can be filtered with paper towel. One lightbulb can be moved from fixture to fixture. If the pizzas are ordered from a different place each time, that means…
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The refinished floors are gorgeous! They make all the trim and doors look like crap! Such is the domino effect of renovation.
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The floors! What a great decision—refinishing the wood floors on the ground floor BEFORE we move in. Time and money is tight, but this is worth it. Our Contractor Don Patzke (www.cutwell.net) came through despite a dramatically reduced time line. We moved our move in date up by a month to next week Saturday. The…
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I’m sitting in a folding camp chair in my empty dining room. Eight years ago, I was doing the same thing. In Portland, in a tiny one bedroom apartment that had once been a Stumptown brothel. Now, it’s MY dining room. As in MY mortgage. And it’s in Milwaukee. Ok, Shorewood if you want to…
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Three weeks to go until we close on the house on Kenmore Place. We went through for the third time today, to take key measurements and see for ourselves with clear minds what we have committed ourselves to. It needs work. Lots of work. Lots more work than I recalled. After inspecting crawl spaces…
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