The Corner Lot: Tales from 53 Mason Street
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Porch demolition, yeah!
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- Published on Sunday, 17 June 2012
Authors: Jessie SP
This post is dedicated to my dear old dad on Father's Day! Without him, I'm sure we'd never have the desire or confidence (skill development is still in progress) to tackle such a lifelong project. His help and enthusiasm for true craftsmanship has gotten us so much further than we ever could have gotten ourselves....
Kitchen: painted!
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- Published on Monday, 28 May 2012
Authors: Jessie SP
Dear reader, I know it's been awhile since we've updated you on our progress. Believe me, we're not neglecting you when that happens. It's our poor house that's being neglected. So, when faced with a three-day weekend, we wanted to have a little fun. In our case, that means three uninterrupted days of...Doors drawers!
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- Published on Sunday, 11 March 2012
Authors: Jessie SP
We've been awfully busy lately, so it's great when the kitchen fairy comes over sometimes and gets a little work done when we don't have the time (not to mention skills). Last week she sent Greg to install some beautiful countertops, and this week she sent my dad to deliver some cabinet doors.That butcher block island top&n...
Countertops DONE!
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- Published on Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Authors: Jessie SP
***Cue harp music***
Look at that - real, grownup countertops! To accomplish this, we had a rare sighting in our house: a professional. Auntie Noelle Gauthier, kitchen designer extraordinaire at Hancock Lumber in Bridgton, Maine, set us up with Greg Smith of Stone Surface, also in Bridgton.
It wasn't a tremendous amount of...
How we're making old into new in the kitchen
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- Published on Monday, 13 February 2012
Authors: Jessie SP
There's something special about that first time in a project when you see an actual, finished surface. So it was pretty exciting when Dad brought over some actual, finished cabinet end panels.
We thought long and hard about how to integrate a new kitchen with the very consistent style of our old house. The old kitchen left...
Baby's bottom butcher block
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- Published on Monday, 06 February 2012
Authors: Jessie SP
Boom. Countertop.| YEEEEAAAHH! |
New stove...hubba hubba!
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- Published on Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Authors: Jessie SP
Many of you may remember my dreaming of a fabulous vintage stove. This Old House magazine ruined me for life with a picture of a copper Chambers stove. Then I found out they also came in red, blue, yellow, pink...I pined, I ebayed, I craigslisted, I googled...but those darned things are hardly, if ever, found within a...Thanksgiving kitchen blitz
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- Published on Sunday, 27 November 2011
Authors: Jessie SP
After doing the stuff-your-face thing, we took advantage of the super-long weekend to show the kitchen who's boss. (Last Black Friday, we demo-ed the living room ceiling. What a year it has been!) Dad came over again with a truck full of tools, and when that happens, you can make a lot of progress very quickly....The kitchen tide has turned...we are fully in rebuild mode
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- Published on Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Authors: Jessie SP
I'm proud to report that we are now fully in rebuilding mode in the kitchen. For awhile, we had been dilly-dallying on demo-ing the sink cabinet, because why remove the old sink until you're ready to put the new one in? Living without a kitchen sink is not for me. But we found a sink, and my handy dad offered...
Lots of kitchen news
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- Published on Sunday, 06 November 2011
Authors: Jessie SP
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