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Monthly Archives: October 2011

Finish Electric!

October 27, 2011by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Finally putting everything back together… Are lights are all wired up and working again. We have a light in the upper closet. Here is the switch in the linen closet […]

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Do You Love Progress?

October 10, 2011by madisonsquare Leave a comment

You do?   Us too.  We also love FINISHED PROJECTS!  Which is why I updated our “Projects” tab with our Deck project, which we pretty much finished last (2010) summer.   We […]

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Closet Fit Out

October 24, 2011by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Yesterday Rob cut the wood pieces for the closets so today I sanded and put a clear semi-gloss poly on them. The shelves are a lovely oak and were unused […]

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Chop Chop

October 4, 2011by madisonsquare Leave a comment

If you’ve ever purchased trim from the Home Depot, you know it’s priced by the foot, and they encourage you to cut it to size on a giant rolling miter […]

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Bookcase Formals

October 13, 2011by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Tonight Rob & I attended the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Opening Gala. There was only one obvious place to take our formal photo -sans sawdust- in front of our recently stocked bookcase:

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Before & After: Trim, Unpainted

October 8, 2011by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Orange room closet, before: Orange room closet, after: Rob installed, caulked and now patching in the baseboard: After it dries, we can prime the trim and put on the first […]

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