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Used Toilets And Door Trimmings
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- Published on Thursday, 19 April 2012
Authors: Sherry
And now for a fourth chapter of The Sandbox Chronicles. Just kidding. It’s time for some toilet talk. Remember the almond toilet that came with our master bedroom (which we recently switched out for a taller and cleaner-looking white one)? Well, for a while the old almond guy – who looks oddly white in this picture below...
The Sandbox Chronicles: Part 3, The Remix
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Authors: John
Yes, just when you thought the sandbox-citement was over – it continues. That’s the funny thing about DIY in general – you might expect a kitchen reno to run across 35+ posts and to last four months, but you never think that something like a simple sandbox will be a three part process. On the other hand, sometimes...
The Sandbox Chronicles: Part 2
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- Published on Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Authors: John
Ready for the next chapter of our sandbox project? If you’re not, I can tell you one person who definitely was. Her name rhymes with Blara.
Here’s where we left off. Box built (more on that here) and awaiting sand. But in need of a cover first.
Having looked at a bunch of other DIY sandbox covers (from some of our...
The Sandbox Chronicles: Part 1
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- Published on Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Authors: John
Building Clara a sandbox has been a project that was nearly a year in the making. Just check out this post about her first birthday party from last May (yes, our girl is a month away from being TWO). So much for “any day now.”
My excuse, well, our excuse is that we couldn’t figure out where we wanted it. We debated...
Fab Freebie: The Killer Radio Star
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- Published on Monday, 16 April 2012
Authors: John
How excited are we to be giving away a Model One Radio this week? You probably know that our cheery yellow one is one of our favorite things that we’ve bought for our new kitchen (more on that here). Sure it’s been dubbed “the best sounding table radio ever made” by some (MSNBC in this case), but our love for it stems fir...
Do The Path
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- Published on Monday, 16 April 2012
Authors: Sherry
I’m not good at math, but digging up a path, I can do. And John’s good at both. Overachiever, much? Anyway, this is just a photo from before we started working on the garden beds on either side of the porch (more on that here and here) so you can see how that clump of bushes in front of the porch was kind of weird and...
Listy McListerson (Updated)
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- Published on Friday, 13 April 2012
Authors: Sherry
Psst- For everyone asking what we did for Easter and what Clara found in her basket – check out those details here on Young House Life.
Brace yourself. This post is full of a whole lotta words. So feel free to skim. Or read this in one sentence intervals over the next two years. Haha. This actually came about when people asked...
Reader Redesign: Don’t Built-Ins Rock?
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- Published on Thursday, 12 April 2012
Authors: John
Linn’s built-in project is such a great reminder of how upgrading your bookshelves from furniture to attached “architecture” can really give an entire room a boost. Here’s her letter:
I wanted to share a before and after of custom made built-in bookcases which my husband and I constructed! Seeing how our old...
Frosting, Tanking, And Sucking It Up
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- Published on Thursday, 12 April 2012
Authors: John
If that title doesn’t make you curious about what this post is about then, well, then I give up. Just kidding. I don’t. And this post is about three bathroom updates, the first of which concerns this baby – the window. Aka the anti-privacy device located conveniently above the place that we do our most private...
Can Ya Feel The Curb Appeal?
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Authors: Sherry
No? Me either. But it’s coming. Slowly but surely. After tackling the area to the right of the porch, next on the ol’ to-do list was:
- the area to the left of the porch
- the side lot next to our house (a giant valley full of moist soil that we want to naturalize into a pretty forest)
But before we get to the planting bed next...
