As you can see from our backyard spring has officially arrived and shades of green are slowly taking over the landscape:


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Today I took the day off work so our countertop could be installed. It was a beautiful day out so I opened the garage doors and started priming some trim. We have a lot of trim to put up, so I thought it might speed things up if I primed and painted it before we install it. That way we'll only have to touch up a small amount of paint. At least ( Read more... )

For those of us who are not religious, it's a huge pain in the ass when the entire world shuts down due to a 2000 year old fairy tale.

This week has felt like a race to the finish line. We've been trying to clean out our old house and get it ready to show to potential renters. A friend of a friend of mine heard about our house being available for rent and we wanted to be able to show it to him. We spent about 4 or 5 hours decluttering and deep cleaning the house yesterday in ( Read more... )

This weekend was a good one with quite a few projects wrapping up. Today we got out the house and were able to mark a few things off our list right away ( Read more... )

Yesterday I left work early to meet the countertop guy so he could measure and cut some templates for our kitchen countertops. While I was there, I finally got the downstairs bathroom sink repaired!


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We started Sunday by finishing putting together the rest of the drawers for our cabinets. Once that was done we decided to put in the toekicks, and I have to say I think we did a nice job as you can barely even see where they are jointed up against each other. Every little thing we've been doing lately makes the kitchen look one step closer to ( Read more... )

We've gotten a few comments that it's been too long without an update, so I apologize for the lapse in posts. Last weekend was kind of strange in that a lot of small projects got done. The main ones were the master bedroom got painted and the bathroom was primed. More on those later ( Read more... )

It's been a month and a half and I'm just amazed at what we've accomplished so far. Erin and I are both very thankful for all the help we've received and this weekend it felt like things really changed from a construction zone to a home. My dad and I arrived at the crack of dawn. Only the turkeys, cranes, and deer were up before us. My dad ( Read more... )

It's been about a week since we last posted, but don't think we took a break or anything. Quite the contrary - we've been hard at work. I've been out to the house working on various things almost every night after work, so I just haven't had a chance to update the website ( Read more... )