Is It a House Yet?
Blog of the Month - August 2011
Over at Is it a House Yet?, A and G are busy renovating their 100-year old
bungalow in Northwest Chicago. They’re tackling all of the “hard” projects - removing load bearing walls, adding a new staircase, remodeling their kitchen and bathrooms, and completely changing the layout of their second floor. Their blog includes great how-to posts on foam insulation, built in book cases, and wainscoting, all told in A’s witty style. We love A and G’s ability to find humor in any situation and they’ve given us a whole new appreciation for “flectastic” quarter-sawn oak.
Be sure to check out A and G's most recent adventures through the posts linked below!
Hardware Decision 2011/2012 – THE RESULTS ARE IN(stalled)!
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- Published on Thursday, 26 January 2012
Authors: A
remember this? good times, good times.
A few months ago, I asked you smart, intelligent, good looking people of the interwebz to help us in our kitchen cabinet hardware placement quest. And boy george did you come through. However, in all the in chaos of voting and comments, a more sinister subject emerged. The fact that our hardware was...
My DIY horoscope: January 23, 2012
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- Published on Monday, 23 January 2012
Authors: A
You have an enthusiastic outlook on life today, because you finally replaced a dark void in your home. Etsy trolling pays off. Remember that low wattage = freedom to be messier. If you accidentally eat sawdust today, just go with it – it’s like nature’s chopped nuts. Well chopped nuts are nature’s chopped cuts but...
May the painting odds be ever in your favor
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- Published on Tuesday, 03 January 2012
Authors: A
Would you look at that. Here it is 2012 and I made all those promises in my last post about updating you more frequently about our progress, and then I go and get all caught up in a bunch of young adult novels where children in the future fight each other to the death on television.
I said I’d show you the upstairs master bath and closet,...
What I did on my blog vacation
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- Published on Friday, 02 December 2011
Authors: A
It’s been 4 weeks since G and I returned from a trip to Key Largo and I still can’t get that Beach Boys song where Uncle Jesse plays the bongos out of my head. And although the vacation was fantastic, the melody of that song (which is mandated to be played in establishments there per state regulations) took me over like an infection, cau...
Did You Get Your Cabinetitis Shot?
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- Published on Wednesday, 02 November 2011
Authors: A
You really should ask your doctor about getting the Cabinetitis shot. I think this year’s strain is the Candace Flu. Or maybe it’s a new strain of that nasty Norm Flu that went around a few years ago, when you only wore flannel and dropped your Rs and spent a lot of time in tool sheds. But it doesn’t matter. We’re already infected here. S...
The Norwegians are Invading
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- Published on Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Authors: A
Not an actual picture of G's family. Although the background does look a lot like the international terminal at O'Hare.
G’s family is coming in from Norway this week. So grab your lingonberries, boil all your food, and get caught up on everything the band a-ha has done since that video where they turn into cartoons. There’s work...
Hardware Decision 2011 – YOU DECIDE!
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- Published on Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Authors: A
Here’s our cabinet hardware that arrived last week:
We chose these knobs and bin pulls in a finish the web site called “antique nickel.” G and I had originally gone back and forth on what finish to choose. For a while I was leaning towards oil rubbed bronze, and G was thinking something more in the silver family. We...
Almost an ‘AFTER’ Shot – The Coutertops with special guest: Stained cabinets!
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- Published on Friday, 07 October 2011
Authors: A
So the countertops are installed. I love them. I Ann and Nancy Wilson them. I ‘Billy-Bob-Thorton-eating-the-prenup-in-Intolerable-Cruelty’ them. I fear they are looking around the house and thinking they are too good for us. In fact, G and I are afraid to even put anything down on them. Our friend J put a plate down on them the night t...
Honed Carrara Marble Countertops: Stupidly genius? Brilliantly dumb?
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 October 2011
Authors: A
Last night we left a plate of cannoli and a cup of espresso out for him. I couldn’t sleep a wink. I woke up this morning and tip-toed down the stairs, peeking around the corner. He had not yet arrived. But he will be here soon. For it is Countertop Morning. MERRY COUNTERTOP MORNING TO YOU! Oh what a joyous day. Let’s sing some Coun...
The Appliance Fairy
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- Published on Thursday, 22 September 2011
Authors: A
Oh hiiii there. How are you? Things have been a tad hectic around here. But a good hectic. The Appliance Fairy came this week. We put soggy frozen corn kernels* under our pillows and the next day she appeared. Granted, she said she’d arrive between 12:30 and 2:30 pm and she showed up at 4:30. So points deducted for tardiness. But...
