Our Second Week in the House

Our second week was more of the same which was working on the kitchen and painting and wallpapering.  I am happy to report, it is 99.9% done at this point and we are quite happy with it. For about $100, the kitchen looks like a whole new room.  Some before pictures: Doesn't look too bad does it? And it wasn't horrible, it was just so dark and the space was small as it is.  The cabinets are the cheapest laminate that we've ever...

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Still Working on the Kitchen

I have been working on the floor, lifting staples so we can get it sealed because that is really something we want done ASAP.  It is slow progress though and I am getting discouraged.  So I am taking breaks to piddle around with other projects.  Today that "other project" is the beadboard wallpaper in the kitchen.  You know how it is when you start a project and think this is what you are going to do and you will be done, and...

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Painting the Kitchen Cabinets

Thursday started bright and early.  Today was the day to start painting the cabinets, and I wanted to get right to it.  I need some kind of kitchen to function well and I knew I wanted to paint the cabinets so I figured I might as well do it before moving my things inside the house. The first step in the process was to remove all of the cabinet doors.  Then I had to scrub them and the trim around the cabinets really well with a de-greasing...

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Our First Week at the House

Week one was just like moving into any other house.  Except this time I wanted to move extra fast on the projects and we had more limited funds for the house than we normally put there.  So I started the process of doing lots of real DIY projects, more than we ever have with any other house.  And by "we", I mean "I"...because Nathan is working an insane amount of hours right now. Day one in the house was a LONG day of me pulling up...

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We OWN a House Again!

I suppose this is my first "official" post here, so I will start with the first step in our fostering horses process.  Monday, March 3rd, we bought a house.  After signing 150 pages of paperwork, we were handed the keys and headed out to drive our old house to our new house.  We left the realtor's office and I said, "We own a house!"  Then, "Crud.  We OWN a house'.  We are still adjusting to that part. We got to TT...

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