Tag Archives: recycling

Fine and fabulous floors

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

It’s been a while since we saw the floors to the house, so it was a special moment today when I peeled the protective paper away from three rooms (saving it for the recycling of course) and revealed our refinished … Continue reading →

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Things are heating up

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

Who would think I could get so excited about heating? But our cast iron radiators are works of art in their own right, and suddenly have star billing in our almost-home. We bought them at the very start of the … Continue reading →

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Let there be (more) light

Posted on November 24, 2011 by

I think today was the first time that I visited the house of an evening without using a flashlight to peer into darkened corners. Suddenly, every room in the house has light, phone and internet connections, even if there is … Continue reading →

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You need to open doors?

Posted on November 5, 2011 by

Life, just like home renovations, is all about compromise, and while I fell in love with the second-hand metal door knobs at the Restore store this week, the spouse managed to convince me that he really didn’t want the extra … Continue reading →

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Something to shut

Posted on October 30, 2011 by

Our doors from the salvage store made their first appearance in the house this week. We bought them months ago, but they have been sitting in the garage or on the porch, with all the other odds and ends. Now … Continue reading →

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Countertop conundrum

Posted on May 27, 2011 by

If I thought the kitchen was hard, the countertop, which will be visible from every part of the first floor of the soon-not-to-be a shell, is turning out to be like one of those multi-leveled puzzles, where each time you … Continue reading →

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Ecogeekery (for experts only)

Posted on May 20, 2011 by

We filled the recycling bin at the house for the first time this week, so we really are putting things back rather than only taking them out. The demolition debris ends up in dumpsters, but the cardboard packaging from the … Continue reading →

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Starting over

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

The beauty, and the challenge, of a gut job like this comes in replacing the 1970s stuff that ended up in the dumpster after two frenetic weeks of demolition work. We have a hole where the anemic gas fireplace used … Continue reading →

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